When you set this project up you likely had an idea about the kind of change or contribution you wanted to make. What were your original aspirations and what did you hope to contribute with your project? Build new networks and relationships? Change a law? Educate a target audience? Shift a behavior? Inspire learning? How has your sense of what your project might do in the world shifted over time? Did you scale up or scale down your original expectations? What have been the challenges in shaping your impact plans? How did you know that you had made an impact? What indicators did you use for evaluation (qualitative, quantitative)? What might you do differently?

STORIES

Reading

The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit.” DocSociety, 2014. https://docsociety.org/projects/#impactfieldguide 

The Impact Pack.” Dot Connector Studio, 2017. http://dotconnectorstudio.com/cards/2020

Miller, Elizabeth and Marty Allor. “Choreographies of Collaboration: Social Engagement in Interactive Documentaries.” Studies in Documentary Film 10, no. 1 (March 2016): 53-70.