For several years, social impact measurement has been identified as a priority within the Community Foundations of Canada network. While some training opportunities have already been offered, many foundations are currently exploring their own approaches and seeking practical, adapted guidance.
This learning opportunity aims to equip and support both English- and French-speaking community foundations in their impact measurement efforts, through an approach that is:

• thoughtful and credible;
• accessible and applicable across all community foundations
• grounded in the lived realities of community foundations.

Overall objective
To offer a bilingual workshop that enables community foundations to develop a shared, concrete, and practical understanding of social impact measurement, in support of future initiatives.

Specific objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
understand key concepts (impact, evaluation, outcomes, outputs, indicators, theory of change, etc.);
become familiar with common models and approaches, as well as current trends in impact measurement;

• identify the conditions for success of a realistic impact measurement process;
• distinguish a “useful” approach from one that is overly complex or misaligned with capacity;
• identify initial steps to begin an adapted approach within their organization.

Facilitated by Coop L’Estuaire, combining foundational content, concrete examples relevant to the community foundation context, opportunities for reflection and peer exchange.

Post-workshop toolkit
To support learning and application, participants will receive a bilingual toolkit including

• a concise summary of key concepts
• a short list of recommended readings
• a curated list of existing tools and resources

Audience: Executive directors, staff, board members
Presenters: Anny Champoux, Manager, Community Foundations of Canada Network Initiatives
Gorana Govedarica, Vanessa Girard-Tremblay and Nathan Cohen-Fournier, Coop L’Estuaire