iMPACT direct quality labels
Transparency and creating impact are at the heart of iMPACT direct. This is acknowledged by the following quality labels:

CBF
The CBF-acknowledgement means we are a professional and transparent non-profit, that does more than crowdfunding only.
CBF will keep doing annual checks on the way we work. And it publishes our approach and impact on their website, to leverage transparency to donors.
CBF will keep doing annual checks on the way we work. And it publishes our approach and impact on their website, to leverage transparency to donors.

ANBI
ANBI is a status that organisations working on public benefits receive from the Dutch Tax Authority. Dutch supporters will have tax advantages when donating. Moreover, the ANBI logo on our website shows that we meet the basic criteria for a professional good cause.

Quality FAQs
How do we measure our impact?
We support NGOs (where relevant) to measure their impact, including:
- Number of lives improved
- Family members/peers benefited
- Community impact through observed changes
In addition, we measure the progress in NGOs to strong organisations that can continue making impact beyond our support, including:
- The 5 aspects of a Healthy Nonprofit (in a baseline and endline survey)
- Financial sustainability (e.g. increased income in the years of partnerships, compared with the year before + diversity in income)
- Increased support network
And finally, additional quantitative measures for monitoring progress include:
- the no. of people reached through (social) media
- the no. of people who take action
- the no. of people who retain and take another action
- NGO satisfaction
- Donor satisfaction
What are the selection criteria for NGOs?
- NGOs that want to professionalise their organisation to create more impact
- NGOs that are officially registered (and thus comply with local regulations).
- NGOs that have a bank account in the country they work (and thus had a KYC-check).
- NGOs that can show past annual financial reports.
- African NGOs that are locally-led, locally-found and locally-based, especially those from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania or Uganda.
- NGOs that work for and with community members living below the poverty line.
- NGOs that have activities running on one or more of these 3 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- No Poverty (SDG1)
- Zero Hunger (in combination with climate-smart solutions) (SDG 2)
- Quality Education (SDG4)
- NGOs with an annual income less than €100,000 (thus donations through iMPACT direct make a significant difference for the NGO’s budget).
- NGOs whose initiators started from a great idea for local projects, with own or local resources and can show achieved impact but fail to get (sufficient) resources from granting donors.
- NGOs that are (or are willing to):
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- Engage project participants in the planning, implementation and evaluation of projects.
- Show how their project improves lives (facilitated by our application survey, project form and reporting format).
- Are cost-efficient (i.e. budget/lives improved).
- Are transparent by sharing project information, stories and reports on our website and socials.
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- NGOs that value partnerships based on equality, trust and transparency, in which we work as a team towards shared objectives and vision, with shared efforts.