Impact driven approach enables resource allocation during the project based on impact, which not only enables cost-effectiveness reporting but also maximizes the cost-effectiveness of resources. The difference is significant compared to a traditional impact assessment, where no guidance is provided. Impact driven approach enables and supports the use of effective management models, such as collective impact.
We have built impact and monitoring frameworks for numerous programs and projects in a wide range of fields — social and health services, wellbeing, children and young people, education, employment and the environment. Together, these programs steer more than EUR 90 million towards their impact goals.
Our clients include foundations, non-profit organizations, cities and wellbeing services counties. In every case, the framework is built to fit the way the program is actually managed: it produces the information needed for steering decisions during the program, not just a report at the end of it.
The impact goal of the program is a safe everyday life for children, young people and the elderly. The program's operating method is innovative: organizations do not have to compete for funding, but work together, sharing insights and expertise. Multi-year funding gives organizations the opportunity to work towards common goals. The sponsor, the Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation, does not just act as a passive money machine, but as an idea generator, convener and partner. The program is based on dialogue between the private and public sectors and the construction of flexible service paths between them.
The impact driven approach guides service activities towards the goal. For example, the organizations began cooperation with the City of Vantaa and the Vantaa and Kerava Wellbeing Services County in spring 2023. It was soon discovered that the selected area, Havukoski, has a large immigrant population, and plans were adapted to better meet their needs. Eleven non-profits have since been building the Havukoski area together with residents — for example by planning and offering recreational and other activities.
The program has now expanded to Helsinki. In cooperation with the City of Helsinki, Builders of the Everyday started in the Malmi and Tapulikaupunki neighbourhoods in 2026 and continues until the end of 2028, with 14 organizations working together on family support, school and daycare cooperation, hobbies and recreation, youth mentoring, community events and volunteering. The impact framework built for the program makes it possible to steer this work — and to compare what is learned in one area with another.
