The Common Approach is four community-driven standards.
Common Foundations
The Common Foundations outline the five essential practices that are common to impact measurement tools and frameworks and which are a minimum standard →
Common Framework
The Common Framework allows each organization to choose the measures it finds to be the most meaningful, and for their funders, collaborators and networks to aggregate those measures. →
Common Form
The Common Form will make it easier for organizations to apply for grants by entering their core organizational information once. →
Common Impact Data Standard
The Common Impact Data Standard makes it possible to integrate software for better mobility and analysis of data with social purpose organizations – or across a collective or network. →
Community-Driven
The Common Approach impact measurement standards are community-driven, created for—and governed by—social purpose organizations. →
