Published May 15, 2023 | Version 2.1
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Common Impact Data Standard Version 2.1

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Common Approach

Contributors

Project manager:

Researcher:

  • 1. Impact Management Project
  • 2. z Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto,
  • 3. Common Approach to Impact Measurement
  • 4. Logical Outcomes
  • 5. threshold.world and b.world
  • 6. Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
  • 7. Salesforce
  • 8. Riddl
  • 9. Common Approach
  • 10. Carleton University

Description

An Ontology for Representing Impact

The Common Impact Data Standard (Data Standard) is a standardized way to represent a social purpose organization’s impact model (i.e. a theory of change, logic model, outcome chain, etc.) and the effects of their work on people and the planet. 

The purpose of the Common Impact Data Standard is to create a shared data model with which to capture, export, and import data about impact measurement. The standard is essentially a set of detailed descriptions of how data should be structured to allow interoperability with other aligned software products. This approach allows data to be moved between applications without any additional mapping.

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Technical note: 10.5281/zenodo.4295989 (DOI)

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