Tracking Outcomes: Powering Impact Measurement for the Giving Community

Philanthropy isn't changing--it already has. The shift from traditional giving to social impact investing is upon us. You can be at the forefront of this trend by tracking and understanding the specific and measurable impact of your social investments. Make informed decisions, track the effectiveness of your programs and tell your impact story using ROI-focused results and a common outcomes measurement language.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Demystifying Outcomes Measurement: A Glossary for Funders
There are so many terms floating around that it’s making outcomes measurement seem overwhelming for organizations and individual change-makers who want to get started. If we can demystify the terminology around outcomes measurement and impact storytelling, could that lower the barrier to entry?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Greater Impact Through Community and Collaboration
Michelle Disabato, Impact Market Executive at MicroEdge + Blackbaud, shares how Blackbaud OutcomesTM is bringing people together and unifying them around a common language, providing people with the ability to collaborate through software to help organizations across the sector to have greater insight, and greater impact.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MicroEdge + Blackbaud Webinar: What is Your Outcomes Maturity Level?
Ready to grow your organization's outcomes capacity for greater impact? No matter where you are in your outcomes journey, join us in this webinar led by Michelle DiSabato to learn the essential steps to strengthen your impact and outcomes.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

What People Are Saying About Outcomes Measurement - Blackbaud Outcomes
Blackbaud OutcomesTM is an impact investing and measurement solution brought to you by MicroEdge + Blackbaud that allows foundations and corporate giving organizations to track the impact of their grants using a standard results measurement taxonomy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Impact Crash Course: How to Advance Your Organization’s Outcomes Measurement Maturity
Be honest: Is your impact story more about what your organization gave and funded rather than what changed because of your investment? In our latest paper, you’ll learn about our five stages of outcomes measurement maturity and what you can do to advance your organization’s ability to prove your impact to your internal and external stakeholders.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Point of Impact: Where Corporate Philanthropy and Social Impact Collide
With outcomes in mind, corporations of all sizes are taking a fresh look at their strategic approach to their giving and employee engagement programs. In our latest position paper, we dig in to how things are evolving in this space and detail five distinct hallmarks of strategic, successful corporate giving and engagement programs. Is your strategy enabled for impact? Download the paper to learn more.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MicroEdge + Blackbaud Releases the Outcomes Maturity Model, a New Assessment Tool for Giving Sector to Gauge & Advance Measurement Sophistication
Developed in partnership with The Rensselaerville Institute (TRI), MicroEdge + Blackbaud’s Outcomes Maturity Model includes an online assessment tool that looks at an organization’s outcomes measurement readiness in seven key categories.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How Will Tracking Outcomes Help Your Organization's Story?
Over the years, as the bar raised people increasingly asked “So what?” “What has been achieved for those dollars?” “What is different for those people that our grants support?” our journey to tracking outcomes and results began and we started to ask ourselves tough questions.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Even More Benefits to Tracking Outcomes
MicroEdge + Blackbaud Vice President of Product Management and Business Development, Charlie Vanek, explores how tracking outcomes can help your organization succeed. From enhanced decision making and improved funding to commercial success, the payoff of outcomes measurement is ever expanding and applies to all organizations and corporations.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Point of Impact: Empowering Champions for a Better World
Philanthropy isn't changing--it already has. The shift from traditional giving to social impact investing is upon us. Learn how to be at the forefront of results-focused giving.

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