Your Results Capacity is
Mostly D’s: Strategic
Your organization’s results are integrated for strategic giving and used to make current funding decisions. You are thinking like investors, using data to support your investment decisions and tell your impact story, all while ensuring alignment to your business purpose.
Now that you are truly an investor in social change, how can you go deeper and grow your Results Capacity?
Consider working toward identifying and developing collaborative solutions by bringing together partners who will deepen the impact for those your investments serve. You could also identify ways to truly embed your social impact into your organization, such as developing a product in support of the social program or ensuring your business practices, such as hiring decisions, marry up with your social programs.
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.