We held an Impact Data Chat focused on Storytelling for Impact in July and had a rich conversation with representatives from foundations, evaluation firms, and nonprofits.

Below is a list of resources from the conversation. Please feel free to share other tools we should add and we will continue to update this.

Initiatives & Websites

• MakeWay impact stories
• VanCity impact stories
• Visionary Voices of Africa: Storytelling for Impact & Income https://afidff.org/en/programmes/visionary-voices-africa
• Radio Ambulante https://radioambulante.org/en
• First Nations Development Institute impact stories
• Kagawedowiiwin: to request or to gather information
• Inquiry and Learning Bundle
• Nindokiikayencikewin: to seek learning or Knowledges
• Circle Round https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/circleround

Examples of Stories of Impact

• The Indigenous Gender Equality Program: planting seeds and innovating our way home - impact story
• Telling Stories of Ukraine War: Human Rights Foundation exhibit‍
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/‍
• From Timor Leste to Guatemala, How Early Warning Systems (EWS) Save Lives: Lessons from GWB https://seg.org/news/from-timor-leste-to-guatemala-how-early-warning-systems-ews-save-lives-lessons-from-gwb/‍
• WASH Exit Interviews: Findings on Professional Attrition in the International Sector https://www.itsflush.com/post/wash-exit-interviews

Multimedia

• National Geographic Storytelling for Impact videos https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/storytelling-for-impact-videos/
• Making the Climate Case for Freshwater Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6BMEC8lvK8‍
• Sarathi- progress through financial inclusion Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzf0l_2Li0&pp=ygUUc2FyYXRoaSBzd2lzc2NvbnRhY3Q%3D

Upcoming Events & Trainings

• ImpactMapper week long Storytelling and Impact Reporting Training of Trainers in 2025 https://impactmapper-3843369.hs-sites.com/impactreports-0-0-1-1

Frameworks

• Most Significant Change Methodologies. https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/plan/approach/most_significant_change
• Narratives of Impact: https://narrativesofimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Narratives-Of-Impact-A-guide-to-use-storytelling-as-a-toolto-measure-impact.pdf
• Raven Indigenous Capital Partners - impact report, framework, and metrics
• Indigenous Knowledges & Data Governance Protocol

Reports & Case Studies

• ImpactMapper's Impact report on Women's Movements and the SDGs, used method of story collection and analysis over a decade long period https://www.impactmapper.com/sdg5-projects/new-report
• Visualizing Change. A guide for coding and tracking change in stories for donors and nonprofits by Alexandra Pittman, ImpactMapper Founder and CEO. This was written in 2015, so all visuals are from an earlier version of ImpactMapper, we have a different look and feel now.
• Territorial Approaches Movement of Women Workers, Fondo Mujeres del Sur https://www.mujeresdelsur.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FMS-MCAT-FINAL-ENG.pdf

Articles & Research

• Sopact Power of Storytelling https://www.sopact.com/perspectives/storytelling-for-impact
• “Method and meaning”: Storytelling as decolonial praxis in the psychology of racialized peoples https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0732118X21000179
• Decolonizing Storytelling: How Has Western Colonialism Impacted Storytelling? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/decolonizing-storytelling-how-has-western-colonialism-torres-lópez-ncz4c/
• Weaving Liberatory Actions: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit https://liberationallianceafrica.com/weaving-liberatory-actions-reflections-from-the-shiftthepower-global-summit/

Software

• ImpactMapper is an online tool to analyze grantmaking and investment storytelling data and to conduct surveys to track and visualize impact.

Notes

• The need for decolonizing data collection methods, language used, communication between donors and grantees

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