What could this idea change?
Local organisations improve impact literacy and communities can distinguish meaningful practice from unverified impact marketing.
M-T1-BV-25 · Theme 1
Business Impact Speaker Series
Examines how businesses create and measure social, environmental and economic impact, testing claims against evidence and affected-community perspectives.
Where this idea came from
- Playbook entry
- M-T1-BV-25 · Business Impact Speaker Series
- Theme
- Theme 1: Attraction & Visibility · Subtheme BV: Business Visibility
- Source material
- Existing checked Theme 1 guide
- Linked playbook entry
- M-T1-BV-25 · Business Impact Speaker Series
Could this work in our club?
- Business leaders, sustainability and impact practitioners, investors, community organisations, students and interested residents. Use when businesses are making impact claims that audiences need help evaluating.
Before you start
- Editorial framework for evidence, attribution, baselines and counterfactual limits.
- Speaker conflicts, client relationships and assurance status disclosed.
- Independent fact and rights review for slides, data and case studies.
At the end: Publish sources and any correction within three working days; ask participating organisations after 60 days what measurement or practice changed.
Before your club says yes
Does the idea fit?
Talk with the people it is meant to serve and check that the need is real.
Who can say yes?
Name the person or group that can approve the work, spending and any safety arrangements.
Are people protected?
Check privacy, consent and safety. Collect only the information you genuinely need.
Can everyone take part?
Check the language, format, place, technology and cost for barriers.
Are the facts and permissions right?
Check names, claims, images, quotations, partner references and Rotary branding.
How will we learn?
Note where things stand now, check in at 30, 60 and 90 days, and decide what to do next.
Worksheets for your club
Open them online, print them or change them to suit the way your club works.
Event and session plan
Use this worksheet to plan who the session is for, when it will happen, how people can take part and what happens afterwards.
Open worksheetCommunications and content planner
Use this worksheet to prepare clear messages and check the facts, permissions and approval before sharing them.
Open worksheetWorkflow and minimum-data register
Use this worksheet to map each step and keep only the information the club genuinely needs.
Open worksheetFacilitation and conversation guide
Use this worksheet to hold a respectful conversation, hear different views and tell people what happens next.
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