{"id":6792,"date":"2017-10-01T22:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalgiving.org\/learn\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:12:13","slug":"how-to-measure-impact-in-170-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalgiving.org\/learn\/how-to-measure-impact-in-170-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Measure Impact In 170 Countries (It’s Not What You Think)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would happen if you bridged two communities often overlooked in the international aid system? <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the goal that inspired two former World Bank employees<\/a> to launch GlobalGiving in 2002. They wanted to connect individual donors\u2014people whose gifts are often seen as too small to be meaningful\u2014with local nonprofit organizations, whose impact has historically been all too easy to ignore because of their size or remoteness of their work.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, that funding bridge has turned into a global marketplace where anyone in the world can find and support projects they otherwise would never have known about. The GlobalGiving community has even become the preferred way for a growing number of companies to channel their giving.<\/p>\n

Since its founding, more than 680,000 of people and more than 225 companies have provided more than $285 million to 17,000+ projects in 170 countries through GlobalGiving.<\/p>\n

But being a fundraising bridge was only the beginning of what our team at GlobalGiving had in mind. We\u2019re a 501(c)(3), too, and our mission is to democratize aid and philanthropy. How? By helping nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe access information, ideas, and funding. The very same platform that revolutionized access to crowdfunding has also made it possible for us to collect and share information about nonprofit management, fundraising, marketing, technology, and feedback loops with nonprofits. We soon had amassed a suite of feedback tools and peer learning opportunities that dramatically improved both the quality of our partners\u2019 fundraising and their impact in their communities. See our results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat.<\/em><\/h4>\n

As we began to study the links between feedback, learning and effectiveness, it became clear that our nonprofit partners informally follow the kind of Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat.<\/em> behavior that defines the most successful entrepreneurial businesses. We follow the same cycle to fulfill our mission to democratize aid:<\/p>\n

Listen<\/strong><\/p>\n