Community Impact
The delivery vehicle: structured programs in real communities.
Sponsors & Strategic Partners
Community investment with something real to report.
Sponsoring digital confidence funds structured programs with defined delivery and honest measurement — the kind of community investment that survives scrutiny.
What gets in the way
- Community investment is often judged on how it looked rather than what changed.
- Digital-inclusion sponsorship frequently funds hardware, with no plan for the skills to use it.
- Sponsors are asked for renewal without evidence that the previous cycle achieved anything.
- Programs that serve older adults are chronically underfunded relative to how many people they affect.
What we bring to it
The parts of the BTATL ecosystem that apply here, and what each one does for this audience.
Talk Tech With Chet
The education being funded.
180Angles
Consumer-protection education, where that aligns with a sponsor's mission.
PARLEN
An emerging measurement framework. In development; not an adopted standard.
What an engagement looks like
A sponsored community cohort
A sponsor funds a defined program for a defined population — a set number of cohorts, in named communities, over an agreed period. Delivery, materials, and reporting are specified up front, and the closing report states what was measured and what was not.
What you receive
- A defined program scope agreed before it begins
- Delivery in the named communities
- Participant materials
- Appropriate, agreed acknowledgment of the sponsor
- A written report at the close of the program
Measurement and reporting
- Participation and completion against the agreed scope
- Self-reported confidence before and after
- Participant ratings and recommendation rate
- A report that states plainly what was measured, what was self-reported, and what was not measured at all
Boundaries and requirements
What we will not claim, and what has to be true for this to work. We would rather be clear now than impressive now.
- We do not offer guaranteed outcomes in exchange for sponsorship.
- We report self-reported measures as self-reported and will not present them as validated impact.
- Participant names, photographs, and quotes are published only with documented permission.
- Sponsor acknowledgment is agreed in advance and never implies that a sponsor endorses, or is endorsed by, any program participant or public partner.
Let's find out whether this fits.
Tell us what you are trying to accomplish and we will be straight about whether we are the right people for it.