Project Overview
We're looking for a volunteer to create a professional-looking, digital-format annual impact report that communicates our impact to donors and stakeholders. The engagement will occur in four phases over four to five weeks. Our first session will be a brainstorm, where we will discuss the key metrics and information we would like to highlight. In our second session together, you'll give us a preview of the preliminary design, and we will provide feedback.
We may need one or more additional feedback sessions before our time together culminates, with you providing us with the final deliverable in a working format that we could edit in the future and a digital format we can easily share with our stakeholders. This report will be no longer than 12 pages.
Our ideal volunteer has experience designing brochures or reports and will be prepared to show us their portfolio of design examples. We hope you can spend 15-30 hours over four to five weeks.
We are a small startup nonprofit. We are launching our first fundraiser this year in November with a target to raise funds for our first center in India, launching in February. We are in need of raising significant funds in the next six months. With a robust impact report, we hope to engage major donors, corporate sponsors, and other stakeholders, not just for fundraising but also to raise the organization's visibility. I have been publishing an annual newsletter for the past 2 years, but I think an impact report is much more required at this point to attract donors.
We'll share our logo and visual branding guidelines with you. We also will take responsibility for writing the copy and providing you with compelling data for our report as well as stories we'd like to highlight and some images. We've also gathered some examples of impact reports we like for your reference.
Nonprofit Overview
Saamarthya Foundation's mission is to make this world more just, equitable, and inclusive for all persons, irrespective of their abilities. Saamarthya is dedicated to creating innovative public awareness campaigns, providing evidence-based professional development and advocacy resources to persons with disabilities, their families, and professionals who work with them. Our mission is aligned with the UN SDG Goal 4 “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4).
Saamarthya exists primarily to provide high-quality support and services to children with disabilities (with IDD and ASD, in particular) and their families. This means providing direct intervention services and group activities to children, individual counseling support, and group training to families. We believe that every child with a disability deserves a childhood full of joy, learning, and belonging. We believe in rights-based education for children with disabilities and that inclusion is the birthright of every child. Our comprehensive three-fold approach—awareness, advocacy, and action—is designed to support individuals with disabilities, their families, and the professionals who work with them