We measure community impact on two front.

Individual.  How is the community positively affecting the consciousness of members at a personal level? Informing and connecting individual members on the organization’s social mission raises consciousness, while increasing meaningful membership leads to greater impact.

Collective.  How is the organization demonstrating movement within the context of their social mission? Key questions should start to find concrete answers-- Are more kids being educated? Are more acres being saved? Is legislation moving forward?

Community energy with community impact is more satisfying, and leads to optimal results. Community energy that is demonstrably wedded to the social mission,and also driven by members, leads to a growing community with sense of purpose that becomes a self-sustaining force.

CoreWeb comprehensively measures community impact.  We do this by assessing, on any given day, how many members exist within each segmentation category (i.e. how many transients, joiners, boosters, and leader are there?) This indicates how the membership of each category has changed over time and confirms the success at generating more boosters and joiners.

Our own community platform offers best practice wikis and thought leadership blogs at community.coreweb.com.