Resources
Free, practical guides for small nonprofits: writing outcomes, capturing evidence, and reporting to grantmakers. There’s no sign-up and no email address required, just read and use them.
How to write a good outcome
Outputs vs outcomes, the five most common mistakes, and how to write outcomes grantmakers actually want.
Is your nonprofit’s impact data future-proof?
Why your impact data should outlast any one tool, and how to keep your nonprofit’s evidence portable and yours.
How to report to multiple grantmakers
Stop writing the same report five times: one evidence base that feeds every grantmaker’s format.
Using AI to write your grant reports
Where AI genuinely helps with grant reports, where it can’t help at all, and how to keep yours trustworthy.
How to measure soft outcomes
Quotes, observations and simple scales: what counts as evidence when the change you make isn’t a number.
Example outcomes for small nonprofits
Youth, mental health, food, older people and more: outcomes to adapt for your own work, with the evidence to back each one up.
How to capture evidence as it happens
A quote, a number, a photo, a note: the one-minute habit that means the evidence is there when the grant report is due.
Moving to a new impact reporting tool
Export first, rebuild your outcomes, bring this year forward and archive the rest: how to change tools without losing years of work.