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Impact Measurement for Furniture Banks: the Toolkit, the SROI Calculator and Eight Guides
A free 60-page Toolkit built with thirteen furniture banks, a free SROI Forecast Calculator running Furniture Bank Toronto's full model, and eight guides to the questions funders actually ask. All of it built on the...
A funder asked for your theory of change. Here is the short way to write one.
If a funder has asked for your theory of change and you do not have one, you do not need six months and a facilitator. You need one sentence. Furniture Bank's is here, along with...
Introducing the Impact Measurement Toolkit for Furniture Banks
A free 60-page framework built with thirteen furniture banks across Canada and the US — shared stakeholders, outcomes and indicators, three sample surveys, and a 90-day start plan. Plus the SROI estimator, now live....
What Do You Do With Furniture Too Damaged to Place?
Every furniture bank takes in items it cannot give a client. Three routes out — repair, recycle, refuse — and the numbers from one bank that has run a repair workshop since 2015....
How Do You Prove Your Diversion Numbers Are Real?
Tonnage diverted only counts if the furniture would otherwise have been thrown away. Ask your donors directly — one bank surveyed 415 of them and found the answer that makes the claim defensible....
How Much of Your Budget Can Social Enterprise Actually Cover?
One furniture bank reached roughly 80% self-funding. It took twenty-five years, started with a single truck, and changed what the organisation is. The honest version of the earned-revenue question....
Which SDGs Should a Furniture Bank Claim?
Four of the seventeen fit a furniture bank honestly. Claim those at target and indicator level, ignore the rest, and you gain a shared language with government and corporate funders who already report this way....
How a Retailer Mattress-Return Partnership Actually Works
A retailer return pipeline is the single biggest mattress supply route open to a furniture bank. It is also the one with the most administration attached. Here is the full anatomy of one, including the...
What Does It Take to Build a Full Impact Measurement System?
Three years, an outside consultant, and a discipline your team has to hold every quarter. What one furniture bank's impact measurement build actually required, and what you can do first without any of it....