Impact and Strategic Clarity
Define an intended impact and create a plan to achieve it
Define an intended impact and create a plan to achieve it
This coaching stream helps community organizations clarify what they aim to achieve, how they will achieve it, and how they will measure their success.
Participating organizations conduct an in-depth analysis of their own program data and examine external evidence to clarify where to focus their efforts and how to test their progress.
This coaching allows organizations to:
Impact and Strategic Clarity coaching takes organizations’ management teams through a rigorous thinking and planning process. Participating organizations should be ready to reflect on their activities and desired impact and to put into action the changes that come out of the reflection process.
A coach helps leadership teams to develop cornerstone deliverables, including:
An intended impact statement: A clear and rigorous statement of the impact that it will hold itself accountable for achieving
A theory of change: A logical flow describing how their work leads to achieving that intended impact.
A set of strategic priorities and/or action plan outlining the work required to implement the theory of change.
Organizations may develop additional products, such as a learning plan, budget forecasts, evaluation frameworks, or program-level theories of change that are designed to advance their work on their intended impact in a manner consistent with their organizational theory of change.
As part of your follow-up evaluation on the coaching stream, Innoweave will ask you to share some of the relevant deliverables you worked on with your coach.
The Innoweave self-assessment tool is designed to help you determine your organization's readiness and whether your initiative or program model is well suited for Impact and Strategic Clarity.
This assessment has 5 questions.
Please respond to each of the questions to the best of your ability by choosing the option that most accurately reflects your organizational context.
Start NowFor groups interested in Innoweave’s Impact and Strategic Clarity stream, we encourage you to review our Information Session:
Innoweave offers support to organizations that are well positioned for Impact and Strategic Clarity coaching. You can connect with a Certified Innoweave Impact Coach to help you explore and undertake this process. Then apply to Innoweave for funds to support that coaching engagement.
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Your organization is eligible to apply for Innoweave coaching support if you have submitted an Expression of Interest and it has been approved.
Apply NowThe primary selection criteria are:
We may also consider geographic and domain (issue area) distribution when selecting organizations to participate.
Participation typically begins and ends within a calendar year, with varying levels of time commitment and intensity during that period. Team members from participating organizations should anticipate 1-2 hours of work each for a period of five to six months.
Your team needs to include staff at the management level. The Executive Director/CEO should also be on the team, although they don’t necessarily have to be the “lead.” One or more board members should also participate. The team can also include other stakeholders from within your organization who you feel are essential to the development and execution of a clear strategic process.
Because of the time the organization’s senior team must dedicate to do this work well, we do not recommend entering this coaching stream while other planning processes (e.g., strategic or business planning) are underway. Organizations that have just completed a strategic or business planning process may still find much value in this coaching stream. For example, it may help them dig more deeply into how various programs or activities fit together, understand the larger impact objectives to which the organization aspires or identify better metrics by which to gauge success at the organizational level. However, if you have recently completed a planning process that fully answered all of these questions, this coaching stream may not be right for you.
The process is offered to organizations at a rate of $16,000, which includes working sessions, bi-weekly coaching and support on materials development. Organizations may apply to Innoweave for up to $12,500 of support towards this coaching and are expected to cover the remaining $3,500 (plus applicable taxes). Any additional expenses can be negotiated with your coach and Innoweave and could include travel or additional support, as needed.
Each coach can only accept a small number of organizations, making this a competitive application process. The application asks questions about your organizational capacity and context, as well as the type of outcome measurement you currently use. It should be completed by someone with in-depth knowledge about the organization and in consultation with other team members.