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Impact measurement takes many shapes and forms. Every impact organisation has to stay accountable to their cause, clients, donors and investors.
If you don’t just look at profit margins but also want to track your social impact, your metrics need even more refinement. At the end of the day, the Million Dollar Question remains: Is my work really making the impact I want to see?
When we interview changemakers, we always bring up the impact question, and as Sue Toomey pointed out in Episode 1 “it is not an easy one to answer”. Some might even say measuring your impact is scary. We don’t think it has to be.
Working in a passion role, the WHY of what you do is a powerful driver and motivator.
At times, the critics and naysayers can will bring you down. Well, we at #impact Podcast ask ourselves the impact question every day and yes, there are moments when we seriously doubt if all the hours we put in make any difference at all. It takes us 40 hours to put one #impact Podcast episode together: We research, curate, record, edit, promote and it does not stop there.
Our WHY is our biggest driver: We want more people to hear about the impactful work of our guests and inspire our listeners to go out and make their own change – big or small, it does not matter – we can all have a positive impact on our community.
Recently Sarah Garner shared her most memorable moment running her impact business with us. She said: “I think perhaps with any new business owner, the first customers who are complete strangers is a defining moment.”
It was the same for us when Samantha Aloysius, a complete stranger – and as we were about to find out, a hardcore listener of #impact Podcast – reached out to us.
She shared that – after listening to our Podcast episode with DJ Begbie from Crossroads Foundation – she started volunteering with them.
Crossroads Foundation is driving change. Here volunteers are loading a container with supplies for Nepal. Photo Credit: Crossroads Foundation
We were over the moon – That’s our impact right there!
So we did a little happy dance and replied to Samantha: Let’s meet up! We got together on a rainy, taifun-y Hong Kong day, sipping on our tea overlooking the greenery of Hollywood Road park.
“I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and do something different,” Samantha says.
In this episode, you hear Samantha’s story and how volunteering at Crossroads Foundations is going. It’s her personal story of making an impact with her volunteering work and at the same time, it will be the episode we will keep going back to when we face doubt that our work is making a difference.
Because it does. It just does.
Action speaks louder than words, says Samantha Aloysius, Volunteer @TweetCrossroads Share on X
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- Reach out to us! We want to hear your story as well! How are you making an impact and how do you motivate yourself to keep going when times get tough? Get in touch with Regina at hello@hashtagimpact.com
- Share your feedback! We want to make this show as impactful and useful for you as possible. Let us know what you think and what we can improve here. It only takes 5 minutes.
- Find a cause you are passionate about and just go for it. As Samantha said in this episode, that does not mean you have to give up all your spare time; the little contributions count just as much.
If you are in Hong Kong, stop by at Crossroads Foundation at the Goldcoast. Visit them here.
