Episode Details
Back to Episodes“Proactively tell people/organisations when they have changed your actions/impact” by TJPHutton🔸
Description
Measuring and communicating impact is hard, particularly when focusing on community building over the long term.
You have a much better idea of what led to you starting a new role, changing your donations, etc, than anyone else could. It will take you 2-10 minutes to directly tell someone how they've impacted your trajectory[1] where they might take hours-to-forever to try to reach you and ask.
It seems likely that many community builders, orgs, and funders would get significant-value from additional impact stories[2].
It also seem very unlikely to be high-cost for any org to receive your impact story. At worst this is an unwanted email that needs to be processed.
So: think about how you got to where you are on your impact journey, and whether it would be beneficial to tell someone now.
And: when you make meaningful changes in the future, tell the people who helped make that happen.
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First published:
March 30th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.