Prerequisites
No Prerequisites - This is open to all. You can be a NGO founder or employee, a student, a CSR professional, an aspiring candidate for a job in the social sector or anyone interested in learning about social impact.
Description
Impact is not only something you measure AFTER your program, but something you envision before a program is designed. This 2-day workshop is designed to show you how you can build a strategic, compelling narrative of change around your impact data and take you through the steps of building a measurement framework to support that narrative.
August 19, Day 1 : "Getting your Impact Narrative Right - using a participatory outcomes approach" with Dr Archana Pillai.
Social startups often face challenges in being able to communicate the impact of their work to different stakeholders. Oftentimes, we hear founders say "I know we are making a change, but how do we tell donors it's happening." Donors follow standard industry metrics around outputs, revenues, numbers or improvements in percentages. This session will teach you how to build a data driven culture within the organization to enable better learning of the work you do and improve your impact narrative. It will also talk about how to communicate behavioral changes and other subtle aspects of outcomes that may not easily be captured in standard metrics.
About the Speaker : Dr. Archana is an academic turned development sector professional, working on enhancing measurability and accountability in social organizations. As the Founder & Director of 86B Research and Advisory Services LLP, her team provides bespoke services for Monitoring & Evaluation and Organizational Strategy through courses, workshops, assessments and building Impact Practice for organisations.
She also serves as a Resident Mentor at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore, and an Impact Advisor at The/Nudge Institute. Dr. Archana believes community engagement and a participative approach to intervention and measurement is vital for impactful social work.
August 20 : Day 2 "Building the Impact Framework for your organization" with Dr Vijay Venugopal
As the Founder of a nonprofit, your understanding of the kind of impact you want to make evolves with time and experience on the ground. Most of us are dealing with complex, multidimensional social issues and it throws up challenges in defining and proving your impact. In such scenario, a robust impact framework brings clarity within the organization about what we are working towards and at the same time, helps other stakeholders understand what we are doing and why. This is crucial not only for raising funds, but for the nonprofit to stay on track to create intended impact. In this session, Dr Vijay, a founder himself, takes us through the process of how he built the impact framework for his organization and how you can do the same for your NGO.
About the Speaker : Dr. Vijay Venugopalan is a Physicist turned Social Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of VigyanShaala. His passion lies in creating real-life impact through science and innovation by facilitating citizen science projects through makerspaces. With a background as a Marie-Curie fellow and extensive experience working in prominent labs in India, Italy, and the UK, he boasts numerous published papers and patents.
Having accumulated a decade of rigorous research experience, Dr. Vijay has developed a keen interest in promoting critical and design thinking. His overarching vision revolves around establishing scalable ecosystems that significantly impact education through evidence-based policies and on-the-ground implementation.
About the Neev webinar series
"Neev" sessions are a series of webinar brought to you by Own2Feet Association, in partnership with Prishni, that aim to take you back to the roots, and strengthen the foundation of your organization in order to deliver better and bigger impact. Each session covers concepts that form the building blocks of any non profit organisation - irrespective of cause or size. Topics range from impact strategy to program success, from in-depth understanding of legal compliance to effective fundraising.
At Own2Feet, we believe in practical and action oriented learning. All the sessions will be led by seasoned and experienced professionals, who bring in the essence of their real life experiences in the Indian social sector.
