The document discusses Brigade's efforts to measure the impact of 14 pilot projects through impact cascades. It provides an overview of impact measurement and cascades before detailing each pilot project. Impact cascades are used to map the goals, actions, potential harms, and metrics to measure progress at each phase from individual to systemic effects. The document guides users through creating their own impact cascade, identifying stakeholders, setting goals at each phase working backwards, considering unintended harms, and determining metrics and data collection. Examples are provided and a shared data repository and help resources are referenced.

1. Scaling Brigade Impact Pilots
Measuring Network Impact

2. Who
Are We?

3. Social Impact = Benefit - Harm

4. Measuring
Brigade Impact

5. 14 Pilot
Projects
Projects by Brigade
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6. Why Impact
Measurement?
Marie-Aimée Brajeux

7. Session
Overview

8. Pilot
Reports

9. Shared Housing
LA Family Housing
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Bonnie Wolfe
Owen O’Malley

10. GetHousing.org
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Gregory Johnson

11. Re-entry
Roadmap
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Jill Bjers

12. Affordable
Water
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Harshita Girase

13. About Impact
Cascades

14. System
Effects
Impact Cascade
Tool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders

15. First, identify your stakeholders in
creating impact. (Help is here.)
System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
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16. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
Then, fill in the goals of each phase of
your project.
2.

17. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
Then, fill in the goals of each phase of
your project...by starting at the end
and working backwards.
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18. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
Consider unintended harms
(anti-goals) at each phase and
counter-measures to prevent them.
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19. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
Finally, come up with a metric to
measure progress toward your goal
at each phase. (Help is here.)
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20. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
And determine when and
how often you will collect
metric data and where you
will put it.
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21. System
Effects
Impact CascadeTool Design
Tool Use
Individual
Effects
Stake-
holders
And determine when and
how often you will collect metric
data and where you will put it.
(There’s a Google Spreadsheet
for that.)
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22. Impact Cascade
Deep Dive
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23. Charlotte
Impact Cascade
Tool Use
Tool Creation
Beneficiary Effect
Structural Effect

24. Charlotte Data Repository

25. Now You
Try!

26. Re-Cap
Affordable
Water

27. Beginning a
Cascade

28. Wrap-Up

29. Feedback

30. Create An
Impact Cascade

31. Appendix
Of Help

32. Phase Goal Action Metric
Metric Identification Help

33. Type Description Examples
Stakeholder Identification Help

34. More Cascade Examples