The indirect reach and scale of ImpactMapper is in the millions; this is because we work with the top foundations and nonprofits around the world that already reach hundreds of millions of women and girls globally. By using ImpactMapper, these foundations and nonprofits have the ability to see previously unseen trends, understand their effectiveness and value added more clearly so they can change existing programs to be more impactful or develop programming and outreach strategies that are more effective and powerful in meeting communities’ needs in the future. The power that even simple data can bring to highlighting an issue cannot be understated. As we all know from working in this field, even getting baseline data on, say, the prevalence of domestic violence in a community can be incredibly important platform for legal advocacy, service provision, funding, etc. All of our current users and early adopters have organizational missions that value participation, and the promotion of gender equality or social justice. Additionally, the majority of them also have explicit aims to seed or expand movements of collective action. These movements strengthen in numbers and yet often, the factors that fostered such growth can get lost if the appropriate documentation systems are not in place. The exciting thing is that with IM, these groups have had opportunities to strategically review, reflect and document progress made towards their organizational or programmatic goals/outcomes of interest. This supported these groups in pushing forward their bold and transformative social justice agendas.

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• Western Europe and North America

• Women
• The poor
• Remote and rural communities

ImpactMapper was developed and refined with significant input from grassroots, regional and global organizations whose women’s rights and social justice agendas were drivers for its creation. ImpactMapper is not just a software tool. We also build analysis and communication capacities. Through our tools, we aim to empower communities to leverage the power in their voices and stories and use simple analytical techniques to transform their data into trends and visualizations that speak to their impact. This way, they can share this information with communities that matter the most. We focus on the use of data and how to stimulate learning, and programmatic and institutional improvement.