Your Results Capacity is
Mostly C’s: Developing
Your organization’s results are integrated into all strategic giving and/or focus areas. Your company is starting to think like an investor, using results-focused narratives along with data to start looking at your program impact.
How to get to the next stage
Now that you are beginning to understand the results of your investments, how do you continue to learn and grow your Results Capacity?
Perhaps think about investing in different ways, such as going deeper and wider through systemic reform, policy change or practice development. You could also consider supporting your community partners to enable their growth and development via capacity building support.
Keep Growing Your Results Capacity
Roadmap to Results: A Corporate Funder’s Guide to Impact
In this guide by Michelle DiSabato, President of Community Impact Consultants, Inc., discover a step-by-step approach to investing more strategically to meet your social and business goals.
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.