Impact Measurement Framework

Based on The Center for What Works and The Urban Institute's research to provide the first sector-wide framework for nonprofit program outcomes and indicators for success, this tool allows you to create a custom framework to articulate your mission/impact statement for your program or organization and then identify the outcomes and indicators that define success toward your desired impact.

Step 1: Define mission/impact statement for your program, organization, or area of interest.

Step 2: Program selection - choose the program most relevant to your mission/impact statement, and then proceed to step 3.

Step 3: Choose up to relevant 3 outcomes (give the system time to grab the associated indicators and display them to the right). Then, choose the indicators/measures/metrics most applicable - no limit.

Final Step: Generate impact measurement framework. Once generated, you can print the document (choose page setup and landscape orientation) to share with key stakeholders. Feel free to repeat the process for other programs.