Struggling to show the real impact of your work?

You know your organisation is making a difference...but is your organisation able to prove it effectively? Without a clear approach to measuring impact...

• Great intentions can go unseen

• Reporting can feel overwhelming

• And your team and funders may miss the story you’re trying to tell

This one-day course is designed to fix that.

You’ll get hands-on guidance to capture, track, and communicate your impact with confidence.

What You’ll Learn

• Clarify Your Strategy.
  Ideas are often big and ambitious, but without clarity, they can remain vague and hard to act on. In this course, you’ll use a Theory of Change to define the specific change you want to achieve, turning your ideas into a clear, actionable plan that your team can rally behind.

• Build Your Framework.
  You’ll develop a practical framework tailored to your mission and context, so you and your team are able to collect the right information consistently and make your impact visible and credible.

• Collect the Right Data.
  It’s easy to gather lots of information that doesn’t actually measure what matters. You’ll explore simple, effective methods for capturing meaningful data, so you always know exactly what to track to tell your story and inform your decisions.

• Showcase Your Impact.
  Even the best insights are useless if they don’t reach the right people. You’ll learn techniques to analyse and communicate your results clearly, giving you the confidence to demonstrate the real value of your work to funders, your team, and the communities you serve.

What You’ll Get

• Hands-On Skills You Can Use Immediately.
  Work with real case studies and leave with tools that fit your organisation.

• Learn With Your Peers.
  Connect with other leaders and professionals in the not-for-profit and social enterprise sector. Share challenges, ideas, and solutions.

• Ongoing Support.
  Access curated online resources to reinforce your learning and guide your next steps.

• Certification.
  Receive formal recognition of your new impact measurement expertise.

Who Should Attend

• Emerging and Aspiring Impact Leaders.
  Build your foundation in impact measurement and boost your confidence.

• Social Enterprise & Not-for-Profit Teams.
  Get practical tools and a clear framework to measure your organisation’s work.

• Philanthropy & Grantmaking Professionals.
  Strengthen your ability to assess and communicate the impact of your funding.

Get to Know the Facilitator: Vanessa Hood

With a dual background in facilitation and impact measurement, Vanessa specialises in the use of creative facilitation techniques to help stakeholders engage with evidence and build their confidence working with data. She draws on her experience from research and evaluation leadership and capacity building roles in government (e.g. Sustainability Victoria) and in the community sector (e.g. with Financial Counselling Australia). In addition to carrying out evaluations herself, she regularly trains and coaches other people in evaluation design, conduct, management and use.

Van is adept at leading and managing complex projects. She devotes considerable time in the planning process, to ensure projects are set up to meet the needs of clients. Van also manages projects in a collaboratively, ensuring open two-way communication throughout, managing risk and negotiating changes when necessary.

Van lives, works and plays on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land.