Impact Strategy and Theory of Change
Impact strategy and Theory of Change design to help you map your programme, integrate your faith, and improve your impact
What is your strategy for creating impact? What does success look like? How does your faith influence this process?
Christian leaders have amazing visions to transform and impact society. However, they often lack the tools to map this vision into a coherent impact strategy, as well as articulate how faith is a part of this process. With Eido’s Impact Strategy Model, leaders are able to clearly define success, and identify what they need to measure.
Eido’s Impact Strategy Model
Developed and tested with leading Christian charities and development organisations, Eido’s ISM combines industry best-practice insights from program design, program evaluation, fundraising, marketing, and theological models.
“Working with Eido has been really stimulating. Eido's strategy questions bring further clarity to the activity we deliver as an organisation and how we measure its impact."
Tom Beaumont, Operations Director, Christians in Sport
Situation addressed and people supported
The first half of Eido’s ISM focuses on the situation that your organisation seeks to address, and the people that you want to engage and support.
Here it is important to think about the systems that surround this situation. What are the causes and consequences of this situation?
Research and evidence in this area can be used to help organisations better understand the situation they address.
Within this situation, who are the people that you want to engage and support. Who are your direct and indirect beneficiaries? What are their strengths?
Here it is also important to think about third party and partner organisations. How are they involved in your impact strategy.
What is the problem, need or situation?
What causes or sustains the situation?
Who do you ultimately aim to support?
Who do you engage directly to deliver that support?
How does God and faith influence your thinking?
“Challenging, thought-provoking, and highly practical. Eido's impact strategy has caused us to re-think our approach to impact and has given us the tools we need to facilitate organisational change”
The Cinnamon Network
Outcomes targeted and success factors
The second half of Eido’s ISM focuses on the outcomes you want to achieve and the causal success factors that will help you achieve them.
For each group identified in your impact strategy, what specific changes do you aim to deliver through your work?
Our ISM helps you define these outcomes, listing the specific beliefs, behaviours, and experiences that can be used to measure your success.
The final part of Eido’s ISM focuses on the keys to success of your activities. How will they bring about change? What do you do at a delivery level that makes your activity effective? And what do the individuals you engage need to have to make your activity effective?
What does success look like?
What are your short and long-term outcomes?
What are the changed beliefs, behaviours, and experiences you want to achieve?
What makes your approach an effective way to deliver these outcomes?
How do you engage the role of God, faith & the church in making your activity effective?
Eido Impact Cohorts
A cohort-based course to help Christian organisations design, discern, measure, report, and improve their social and spiritual impact.