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IMPACT STATEMENTS

• Ross O. Love
• Oklahoma Cooperative
• Extension Service

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How Impacts are Used?

• Local, State and Federal policymakers
• For quick response to info requests
• Communicate with partners/public
• Accomplishment reports
• News stories
• Administrative speeches and papers

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What is Impact?

• The reportable
• Quantifiable
• Verifiable difference

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Components

• Relevance
• Issue
• Response
• What has been done?
• Results
• Outcomes and Impact

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An Impact Statement is

• Brief summary
• Lay terms
• -- social.
• -- environmental.
• -- economic....
• results relatable to your efforts

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Rockwell and Bennetts TOPS Model
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Logic Model of Development Research
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Inputs   Outputs Activities Participation Outputs Activities Participation     Outcomes Impact Short Term Medium Term Long Term Outcomes Impact Short Term Medium Term Long Term Outcomes Impact Short Term Medium Term Long Term
                 
What we invest   - Faculty - Staff - Students - Infrastructure - Funds - Time - Knowledge - Methodology - Technology - Stakeholder needs                       What we do   - Design and conduct developmental research - Write grant proposals - Publish scientific and industry/public articles - Train students - File patents - Develop methods and procedures - Inform policy and decision makers - Interact with discovery researchers and extension specialists Who we reach   - Other development researchers - Discovery researchers - Extension specialists - Teaching faculty - Students - Funders - Scientific journal and industry/popular magazine editors - Patent officers - Policy and decision makers - Agricultural, environmental, life, and human science industries - Public     What the short term results are   - Applied knowledge - Application skills - Grants - Publications - Patents and licenses - Application methods and technology - Plant animal varieties - Developmental research methods and technology - Practical knowledge for policy and decision makers - Information, skills, and technology for extension programs     What the medium term results are   - Expanded applied knowledge base - Graduates trained in developmental research methodology and techniques - Best management practices adopted by public and private sectors - Methods, technology, and inputs (i.e. new varieties) adopted by public and private sectors - Enhanced and updated extension programs - Informed policy decision makers   That the ultimate results are   - Successful agricultural, environmental, life, and human science enterprises - Economic development increased - Communities empowered - Improved environmental quality - Enhanced quality of life - Fact-based policies laws written  
                                   
Assumptions         Assumptions         Assumptions         Assumptions         Assumptions           External Factors External Factors External Factors
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Impact Statements

• Report the difference your programs are making in
  peoples lives
• Report the difference in ways average people can
  understand
• Not every successful program makes a successful
  impact statement

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RememberImpact is Not

• For your scientific peers
• An activities report
• Just the number of people you reached
• A description of process
• A technical report
• A scientific paper or abstract
• A long, detailed account

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Elements of Impact Statements

• Title
• Issue Reason the research or Extension program
  implemented
• Scope, severity, need, problem, questions,
  consequences of issue
• What has been done? How did Extension or research
  personnel respond description of the research or
  educational program
• Impact Outcomes or impacts of effort. May
  include evaluation strategy, evaluation data,
  quantitative or qualitative outcome and/or
  impacts or potential impacts sometimes anecdotal
  statements can be used

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Issue who cares and why?

• Attention-getter that tells who should care and
  why
• Brief problem/issues statement
• Tells why this information is important and
  provides context
• May help form the scope of the issue or problem
• May mention potential public payoffs

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What has been done?

• Brief general overview of activities
• Scope
• -- how many years
• -- number of people served
• -- number of educational activities
• -- attendance
• -- percent of target audience reached
• -- acres represented
• -- size of community

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IMPACT

• The heart of your statement
• Relates to real people and real world problems
• Reports actual or potential change
• Outcomes
• Impacts

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Outcomes

• Quantitative and qualitative
• Capacities built in audiences
• -- Knowledge gained
• -- Skills acquired
• -- Decision making improved
• Behavior, attitude changes
• Practice or situation changes

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Impacts

• Actual or potential changes in
• -- Economic value or efficiency
• -- Environmental quality
• -- Social well-being
• -- Individual health and well-being

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Impact Examples

• Dollars saved or earned
• Input use reduced
• Acres of habitat improved
• Chemical applications reduced (, A)
• Yields increased
• Markets developed
• Laws or regulations created

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Impact Examples (Contd)

• Businesses started
• People employed
• Certificates awarded
• Improved attendance
• Reduced loss of productivity

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