Common Impact
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Common Impact breaks down barriers that exist between sectors and industries to create meaningful partnerships between companies, social sector organizations and the people that drive them. The common purpose of these connections: to deliver real value to each partner through innovations in community engagement, and ultimately to address deeply rooted and complex social challenges.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Skilled volunteering, Capacity building
Common Impact provides capacity-building solutions to high-potential nonprofit organizations. From technology to marketing to human resources, each of our consulting engagements are designed to help our clients better serve their constituents.
We focus our work in three areas: Education & Youth, Housing & Homelessness, and Health & Human Services. Our philosophy toward effecting change in these sectors is simple: we catalyze organizational development so that nonprofits can focus on doing what they do best -- helping others.
We provide three distinct services:
--Evaluation and Planning
We help our nonprofit clients identify the areas of their organization that would benefit from a consulting engagement. Whether the challenge is in technology, marketing, or human resources, our consultants will evaluate the organization's needs and provide a set of recommendations to increase its efficiency and effectiveness.
--Project Execution
We match our nonprofit clients with teams of volunteer consultants, who implement projects from the newly completed plan. Sample volunteer projects include building a new database, creating a new brochure, or developing new hiring interview questions.
--Mentoring
We match our nonprofit clients with senior executives from leading companies who help provide ongoing advice and assistance. These executives may help mentor an organization's up-and-coming marketing director, provide guidance about how to handle an underperforming employee, or help select a vendor and manage a software implementation.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
With a deep understanding of both mission-focused and business goals, Common Impact's programming strives to enable growing nonprofits to achieve even greater results in our communities, while simultaneously engaging corporate employees in dynamic and challenging opportunities that develop their skills and unlock successful, purpose-driven careers.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Common Impact's strategy for continuing to "catalyze a new, connected economy by aligning business and social purpose" through corporate-nonprofit pro bono is built upon the following three pillars:
Institutional partnerships: building sustaining relationships between companies and nonprofits.
Skill Building: Reciprocal skill building and knowledge transfer between corporate employees and nonprofits.
Pivotal Projects: Strategic projects that drive core social impact model development, evolution or scale.
Together, the above pillars will drive transformational versus transactional partnerships between the corporate and nonprofit sectors.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Common Impact is a nationally-recognized nonprofit that has nearly 20 years of experience partnering with Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of the country's leading nonprofit organizations. Common Impact is not only a thought leader within in the fields of nonprofit capacity building and strategic corporate engagement, but it is also uniquely positioned as a "Strategic Doer", with a brand that strides consulting and implementation support. Common Impact's small staff stretches from coast to coast, and hails from diverse backgrounds with a collection of both cross-sector and cross-functional professional experience.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over the years, Common Impact has executed more than 700 cross-sector engagements, culminating in a social return on investment that has exceeded $30 million.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Connect with nonprofit leaders
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Common Impact
Board of directorsas of 01/14/2022
Allen Carney
Jihye Gyde
Kevin Cavanaugh
Danielle Holly
Common Impact
Allen Carney
Anne Marcus
Jacques Ouimet
Allan Hackney
James M. MacDonald
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.