Strengthening Impact & Evaluation for Community Services Webinar

Are you looking to strengthen your community programs, refine your funding applications, or improve how you measure and communicate impact? This practical and interactive webinar is designed for community and social services professionals who want to enhance their approach to program design, outcomes measurement, evaluation, and impact reporting.

Facilitators:

🔹 Melanie Bainbridge – Senior Manager, Impact Design & Capability, Lotterywest

🔹 Kieran Gulvin – Senior Manager, Evaluation, Research & Insights, Lotterywest

What You’ll Gain from This Webinar:

Part 1 – Designing for Impact & Securing Funding (1 hour)

Build effective logic models to define and articulate your initiatives
Improve data and evidence gathering to strengthen initiative and funding applications
Develop compelling impact narratives that demonstrate real outcomes

Part 2 – Evaluation & Impact Reporting (1 hour)

Practical evaluation tools to measure success and inform decision-making
Best practices for impact reporting to engage funders and stakeholders
How to prepare for an evaluation process that captures and communicates meaningful insights

This session will provide hands-on learning, real-world research, and practical digital tools that can be applied to any program, funding application, or evaluation framework.

Who Should Attend?

Community development practitioners, social service professionals, program managers, local community leaders and anyone looking to enhance program impact and reporting capabilities.