Why We Write Quarterly Impact Reports

August 20, 2014 - Monica Landy

Today we released our second Quarterly Impact Report – a candid look at successes and failures across all areas of our organization in the last quarter.

You can see our latest impact here.

We achieved a lot these past few months, all of which you can see above. We expanded our number of clinics, provided solar power energy to our facilities, and secured significant funding and support from the Nepali government.

Most notably, we treated our 200,000th patient, an incredible milestone for an organization whose guiding principle is “to solve for the patient.”

But the real reason we write QIRs isn’t only to share this news. Additionally, we value being “transparent until it hurts” – so much so that it’s one of the core principles in our For-Impact Culture Code. We believe it’s critical all organizations are transparent about their successes as well as their failures to ensure we are doing the best we can to solve for our patients.

 So, how does the QIR do that?

Across all departments, from our clinical team in rural Nepal to our marketing and communications team here in NYC, we’ve established metrics for understanding our performance in key areas. This allows each of us to separate signal from noise, and to focus on doing what matters most for our patients. At the end of each quarter, we review the data, and the results—good and bad—are published in the report.

In this way, the QIR is just as useful internally as it is externally. While it’s our responsibility to share these figures with our community, we also receive incredible value from taking an honest and frequent look at our work.

 

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I’m proud of Possible’s commitment to transparency. Not only is it critical for creating honest relationships with our partners and earning the trust of our community, but it helps us continue to produce remarkable results for our patients.

And that’s what matters most of all.

See our latest QIR, and let us know what you think in the comments below. 

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