The training arm of Giving Hearts Day, Impact Foundation helps Giving Hearts Day charities and leaders grow through coaching, resources, and networking opportunities. Impact’s ultimate goal is to help individuals and organizations unlock their potential to serve.
Impact Foundation is based in Fargo, North Dakota, and was formed in 2004 in response to a need for North Dakota and northwest Minnesota charities to better grow their capabilities to impact health and quality of life in the region.
Along with Dakota Medical Foundation, and the Alex Stern Family Foundation, Impact also serves as a co-host of Giving Hearts Day, which is the longest-running giving day in the United States. Since its inception in 2008, GHD has served as a platform for charities to raise nearly $195 million, 100% of which goes directly to participating charities.
Bold dreams
Brilliant delivery
x Burning desire to serve or BD3 = EI
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Extraordinary impact
This simple formula, which we call the “High Impact Approach,” guides everything we do at the High Impact Institute, from content creation to our won workplace culture. We think that if you adopt it in your organization, it will become jet fuel for taking your charity to a whole new level.
You’ll reach previously unattainable heights, and you’ll do so faster, smarter, and with a greater perspective about why you do the important work that you do. In a world of endless distraction and demands on your time and energy, the High Impact Approach anchors and illuminates what’s truly important.
The overarching pursuit of any organization should be to dream big dreams, the kind of dreams that create excitement, illuminate possibilities, and ignite the promise of a better tomorrow.
Once those dreams have been captured in a plan, the desire of the organization should be to then make good on those bold dreams and ideas to deliver brilliantly.
If bold dreams are the destination and brilliant delivery is the engine, a burning desire to serve is the fuel that ignites and propels an organization to exponentially grow its impact over time. And that brings us to the outcome of the High Impact Approach: extraordinary impact.
Most organizations are not even aware that they have the power to be exceptional. By not making a choice, you have defaulted to being average at best, which is a tragedy of opportunity lost. The stakes in this case couldn’t be higher – lives saved, animals rescued, diseases cured.
For health and safety-related financing in rural communities, Dakota Business Lending provides a Dakota Medical Foundation and Impact Intermediary Relending Program (IRP) to fit your organization’s needs. As a small business financing partner, your organization could benefit from a fixed-rate loan for up to 15 years with a maximum loan amount of $150,000 to provide support for your health and safety project. If your organization is interested in learning more about this program, click here.
Giving Hearts Day is a 24-hour fundraising event that’s raised nearly $195 million for charities in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota since its founding in 2008. Each year, on the second Thursday in February, this fundraising event encourages donors to find a charity (or several) to love. With the support of Impact, charities receive the training, coaching, and resources they need to enhance their fundraising goals while expanding their organization’s incredible impact. If your charity is interested in participating in Giving Hearts Day, click here.
