Funders’ principles and drivers of good impact practice

06.02.2015

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Tulip Foundation is committed to social impact analysis for about 2 years now. The impact is the broad or longer-term effects of a project or organisation’s work (also referred to as the difference it makes). This can include effects on people who are direct users of a project or organisation’s work, effects on those who are not direct users, or effects on a wider field such as government policy.

Since the end of the last year Tulip Foundation has the permission to translate into Bulgarian and disseminate the materials of Inspiring Impact programme. This is a result of the targeted efforts of the organisation to bring the social impact analysis to the attention of civil organisations, funders, social enterprises, governmental officials and local authorities.

Inspiring Impactis a programme that aims to change the way the UK voluntary sector thinks about impact and make high-quality impact measurement the norm for charities and social enterprises by 2022.

Over the next decade we will work towards five key objectives under five themes, answering the key questions for the sector:

What does good impact practice look like?
How do we know what we need to measure?
How do we measure it?
How can we compare with and learn from others?
What’s the role for funders?

As we are deeply convinced that the above questions are vitally important for funders, civil civil organisations and social enterprises in Bulgaria, a series of materials providing answers to those questions are going to be published in the coming months. As the role of funders for impact practices is highly defining, the first document available in Bulgarian is Funders’ principles and drivers of good impact practice.

Impact practice includes the activities that an organisation does to focus on its impact. This can include planning desired impact, planning how to measure it, collecting information about it, making sense of that information, communicating it and learning from it.