Walk into any board room in the U.S. and you’ll likely hear the term “impact assessment” tossed around. From such contexts, it can be difficult to intuit what impact assessment actually means and what it looks like in practice. But behind the corporate jargon, impact assessment is an essential tool for the success of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. From an ice cream parlor looking to franchise its business to a homeless shelter reporting to funders about its impact on the ...
