Result Based Social Collaborative
Social Purpose Community for “Citizen-Felt” Impact
About IF (Impact Forest)
Impact Forest was created to facilitate collaboration across the social impact ecosystem and to provide expertise, resources, and data to facilitate the achievement of missions while strengthening outcomes and transparency. We expand the value of our partners’ current data sets, deepen understanding, and bring granular visibility to impact success. We enabled diverse community stakeholders to work more effectively together. Our goal is to aid in strategically increasing impact while advancing program design and effectiveness.
IF enhances understanding and deepens insights into demographics and circumstances of served populations.
IF aligns partners to shared missions, as they work independently or together to accelerate their results.
IF enables access to expertise, partnering, proven programs, and “thought partner” conversations.
IF promotes stakeholders’ participation in improving best practices, capacity building, and funding returns.
IF deepens insights into barriers, risks, impacts, and success; beyond your focused cause and organization.
Our Mission
Advancing pathways to research and solutions to improve citizen-felt impact.
Our Vision
Financially resilient communities where stakeholders’ impact is clear.
Our Purpose
To create a more inclusive and financially sustainable world where common understanding and shared experiences allow all individuals to guide their future.
We are a Social Purpose Organization
“A Social Purpose Business is a company whose enduring reason for being is to create a better world. It is an engine for good, creating social benefits by the very act of conducting business. Its growth is a positive force in society.”
– Social Purpose Institute
Social Impact Incubator
All we do at Impact Forest is provide you with an ecosystem where you can align social missions, collaborate with peers, leverage impact tools, access relatable data, and inspire funding.
Our community is designed for experts, funders, and providers to actively participate in the evolution of best practices to move communities, while enabling research, advancement of individuals, building of capacity, and improvement of social return on funding.
Expand Your Team
What We Do
We Support You on Your Equitable Impact Journey
Advance Your Impact Lifecycle
ASSEMBLE
Impact-Centric Stakeholders
We provide shared mission-based connectivity for clarity, conversation, experiences, research, and planning.
* Citizen & Organizations “FOR”
* Contributing Thought Partners
* Impact Mission Alignments
* Impact Opportunity Collaboratives
* Impact Collaborative Funding
CONSULT
Transformational Expertise and Guidance
We support organizational advancement of systems, offerings, and results.
* Evaluation, Insights, and Direction
* Organizational Transformation
* Performance Management
* Impact & Success Metrics
* Assessments & Reporting
PROVIDE
Impact Advancement Framework
We aid in national collaborative pursuit of best practices and effectiveness of funding.
* Best Practices to Resolve Issues
* Balance Responsibilities & Benefits
* Impact Stacking & Acceleration
* Advance Social Return on Funding
* Shared Understanding of Relevant Data
Share understanding, results, and best practices
Connect with other providers, funders, and advocates that are aligned to your mission.
Gain insights, target impact, and monitor results
Explore demographics, data, and results as you advance your offerings, impact, and funding returns.
Expand your funding network
Gain visibility for your good work and expand funding opportunities through shared mission sponsors.
The Need
Common Understanding is Missing
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
Navigating Impact is Challenging
Citizen-Felt Impact
When We Share Understanding, Opportunities for Impact Unfold
Newly Defined
IF defines citizen-felt impact as “the impact from community funding or policy application a citizen recognizes in their daily life.”
The larger “engines” of social impact assess communities through indirect measures. Service providers assess their participants as unique individuals as they engage them through their targeted offerings.
Holistic visibility into the risks, gaps, barriers, and circumstances of individuals that live within communities will allow for the collective movement of communities from risk to resiliency.
Visibility into Circumstances are Needed.
At the center of social issues are the citizens.
FOR ISSUES TO RESOLVE, CITIZENS MUST FEEL THE RESOLUTION
Barriers to “Citizen-Felt” Impact
UNDERSTANDING
CIRCUMSTANCES
ALIGNMENT
PARTIAL SOLUTIONS
AWARENESS AND ACCESS
Beliefs & Education Lack Relatability to Long-Term Personal Empowerment & Action
Citizen Circumstances are not Easily Identifiable or Considered
Service Offerings may not Align to Non-Bias Demographic Make-Up
Services may Only Partially Address Risks & Critical Needs
Complete, Relevant, & Relatable Data is Not Available
Why IF?
Impact Forest is NOT a Social Impact Expert, Nor Does it Care to Be
Incubating Impact
We have created an “impact incubator” that enables experts, funders, and providers like you to come together to leverage knowledge, accelerate delivery, monitor circumstances, improve results, increase capacity, and achieve the higher return on funding.
What if the most effective solutions are yet to be envisioned?
How can we come together to solve a problem that we do not define or measure the same?
How quickly can we adjust our impact to address the next unexpected community crisis?
Shared Commitment
01.
Committed Non-Bias Social Impact Partners
02.
Alignment to Shared “Impact Opportunities”
03.
Shared Base Demographics and Metrics
04.
Alliance to Evolving Best Practices
05.
Commitment to Report-Out and Research
The Advantage
Who Should Participate?
“ACTIVATE while you ADVOCATE”
“Thoughts Are a Valuable Thing to Share”
– LisaAnn
Impact Forest uses THOUGHT GROUPS as a means for its partners to formally come together for targeted conversations to solidify shared understanding and clarity around their shared social mission. Whether you are working to deliver and prove your programs, providing resources for change, or looking for opportunities to be “part of the solution”, your voice has a place to be heard.
Funder 
Provider 
Policy Maker 
Organizer 
Researcher 
Activist 
Executive 
Community Leader
Partners and Staff
Bring Your Value to the “Table”
Meet Our Founder – LisaAnn McConnell
Born one of eleven children, LisaAnn is sensitive to her surroundings and the impact she has on the people and environments around her.
Educated as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), she has spent her 30+ year consulting career working as a data lifecycle consultant striving to ensure that the correct data is collected within integrated systems to produce outputs that are both relevant and accessible.
The early adoption of her “reporting first” methodology supports her in consistently delivering relevant enterprise and social impact data systems that support both business and equitable impact advancement AND are relevant to all stakeholders.
Impact Forest was born after 4 years of her participating “around the tables” with social impact leaders in the City of Atlanta. From this came her realization that a standard framework (like that which successfully moves an enterprise from conception to success and profitability) was missing within social impact organizations.
During the pandemic of 2020 she realized that it was time for her to bring her understanding, ideas, and passion to life using her own grass roots efforts.
LisaAnn is a leader in designing foundational social impact systems that will support understanding and visibility across causes and geographies and is actively working to assemble others, who are fully committed to citizen-felt impact, to join her “thought-leader” and “thought-partner” teams.
Join the IF Community for “Citizen-Felt” Impact
“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.” – Paul Solarz
Be Part of an Ongoing Bigger Solution
“Thoughts are a Valuable Thing to Share” -LisaAnn
Impact Forest is focused on bringing together the opportunity for collaborative advancement of citizen-felt impact, equity, capacity, and funding return across causes, efforts, and geographies.
When you Join the Impact Journey, you will be notified as “thought group” conversations emerge, impact opportunities present, and demographic result data becomes available.
Our offerings will be directed by the interests and needs of our community partners. So look forward to relevant and focus opportunities to engage. As our community takes this journey together, expect the evolution of thoughts, solutions, and RESULTS.
