“Proactively tell people/organisations when they have changed your actions/impact” by TJPHutton🔸

Measuring and communicating impact is hard, particularly when focusing on community building over the long term. You have a much better idea of what led to you starting a new role, changing your donations, etc, than anyone else could. It will take you 2-10 minutes to directly tell someone how they've impacted your trajectory[1] where they might take hours-to-forever to try to reach you and ask. It seems likely that many community builders, orgs, and funders would get significant-value from additional impact stories[2]. It also seem very unlikely to be high-cost for any org to receive your impact story. At worst this is an unwanted email that needs to be processed. So: think about how you got to where you are on your impact journey, and whether it would be beneficial to tell someone now. And: when you make meaningful changes in the future, tell the people who helped make that happen. --- First published: March 30th, 2026 Source: --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO .