For-Impact Community Research

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Community strength through collaboration

I consent to CMX Ventures using my responses for academic research and community impact analysis. My contact information and nonprofit details will be kept confidential and used only by CMX Ventures and nonprofit student organizations for research purposes, volunteer recruitment matching, and pro-bono consulting support. My data will not be shared with or sold to third parties, corporations, or companies outside of these organizations.

About You & Your Organization

Your Full Name

Your Email

Phone Number

Nonprofit Name

Nonprofit Industry / Focus Area

Nonprofit Location / Based In

Optional: Help us understand your community scale

Total Members / Active Community Participants

Total Staff (Full-time & Part-time)

Total Volunteers

Total Sponsors / Corporate Partners

Section 1: Context & Stage

This section takes 3–4 minutes and helps us understand where your nonprofit and community are in their lifecycle.

What's your goal of your non-profit

What stage would you say you're in?

Early / scrappy: testing programs, still proving the model

Scaling: demand is there, trying to build systems and funding stability

Established: solid programs, working on deeper impact + diversification

Legacy: been around a long time, modernizing and not trying to break things

What are the things that are working well right now, and potential things that are not working as well right now, about your non-profit?

Section 2: Data & Impact Storytelling

This section takes 5–6 minutes and explores how you currently tell your community's story with data, and what's missing.

How are your community members currently engaging with each other?

Do you have any stakeholders and how often you meet with them?

When you have to prove to someone your community is working (board, ED, sponsors), what do you show them today?

Metrics I pull from our systems

Screenshots, slides, or decks

Stories and case studies

A mix of the above

Other

What is a question you had about your community that you wish you had a lot more clarity on?

How much of your community data is in one place vs scattered? (Events, surveys, Slack/WhatsApp, spreadsheets, CRM)

Where do you spend the most time hunting for information?

Do you currently have use any tools or systems to help organize and manage your community?

Do you currently have a dashboard to track your non-profit and community engagements?

Do you use any AI tools today around your community?

Yes, we use AI tools

No, we don't use AI tools yet

Other

Tell us more about your AI tool usage (or what you'd want it to do)

Section 3: Sustainability (Funding & Human Capital)

This section takes 4–5 minutes and explores your biggest sustainability challenges and pressure points around funding and people.

Are you worried about funding right now?

Yes

What information or actions are needed to get more funding?

If you had funding what would you use it for?

Besides funding, what worries you the most right now?

Turnover

Volunteers

Staff/Talent

Other

Are there times - if any- are you asked to explain your community's value? (how often)

Annual report

Grant renewal

Sponsor report

Board meeting

No specific moment

Other

How often do you have to explain your community's value?

Additional Notes

Section 4: Follow-Up

If you had a magic wand to fix anything in your nonprofit, what would you use it on?

What type of human support or help would you need with?

Thank you so much for your time! Your insights are incredibly valuable and will help us understand how nonprofits can better measure and manage their communities. We'll be in touch soon.