Your Results Capacity is
Mostly A’s: Minimal/None
Your organization doesn’t currently focus much on results. Your grants programs may be brand new or limited by other factors such as long-term relationships or a program officer or executive’s emotional response to application/need.
How do you grow your Results Capacity?
The critical first step to growing your Results Capacity is to align your business purpose with your social impact. The areas where you invest are ideally in direct alignment with your business purpose and strategy. Determining your desired impact for each of those areas will also help demonstrate alignment to business value.
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About Community Impact Consultants, Inc. and Michelle DiSabato
Community Impact Consultants, Inc. (CIC) is a full-service consulting company working with corporate citizenship programs, foundations and other philanthropy clients to help them make the shift to social investing and Tell Their Organization’s Impact Story. As part of their core services they work with clients to develop research-based programs that are aligned with their business and the communities they serve by ensuring they are targeted and measurable. Typical engagements begin with developing a social impact framework including specific programmatic strategies and implementing these strategies into their operations, including providing recommendations for leveraging technology where applicable.
Since 2008, CIC has worked with clients across many industries such as consumer goods, health care, manufacturing and financial institutions, in addition to governmental agencies and private foundations, helping them make the most out of their community investments.
Michelle DiSabato, founder and President of Community Impact Consultants, Inc. (CIC), is a philanthropic impact subject matter expert with more than 20 years of experience developing, designing and implementing multi-million-dollar philanthropic initiatives and programmatic social impact analyses. Prior to founding CIC, Michelle was a CSR manager at a Fortune 10 global organization, where she managed one of the largest installed grants management systems (200+ users in more than 15 locations) and led their measurement initiative to determine the impact of their community engagement.