Get to know Amp Impact - Overview & Glossary of Terms
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Amp Impact Functional Areas
Amp Impact is a flexible impact measurement solution that helps nonprofits, grant-makers, and impact investors track the outcomes, performance indicators, implementation, and cost-effectiveness of their portfolios over time and across geographies.
Organizations can customize Amp Impact to meet their unique data management needs, leveraging the power and flexibility of the Salesforce Platform.
There are three primary use cases for Amp Impact:
Program / Project / Award Management
Impact Measurement
Outbound Grant Management
An Amp Impact solution can contain only one of these use cases, but we more often see a combination of these use cases within a solution.
Broadly, we categorize the Amp Impact features into nine functional areas. They are listed in the table below but you can click on the links to dig into the details.
Program/Project/Grant | Framework Visualization | Standard & Custom Indicators | Implementation Plans & Activities | Budgets & Financials | Form Template Builder | Risk Registers | Calls for Proposal | IATI Publishing |
Project Setup Wizard | Standard & Custom Objectives | Baselines & Targets | Gantt Chart | XLS Budget Download / Upload | Form Responses | Risks | Call for Proposal Thematic Areas | PowerBI Template |
Reporting Periods | Copy Frameworks | Results | Position Assignments | Disbursements | Form Review & Scoring | Risk Assessments | Concept Notes | |
Project Geographic Areas | Calculated Indicators | Procurement Requirements | Allocations | Radar Charts | Risk Relationships | Application Reviews | ||
Project Thematic Areas | Aggregated Indicators | Funds | Risk Causes | |||||
Project Roles | Required Indicators by Thematic Area | Risk Actions | ||||||
Organization Roles | Disaggregation Groups | |||||||
Modifications | XLS Target Download / Upload | |||||||
XLS Results Download / Upload | ||||||||
Impact Stories | ||||||||
Performance Graphs |
If you want to get technical, you can review the Technical Enablement section where we cover setup & configuration, entity relationship diagrams, and design considerations by functional area.
Amp Impact Glossary of Terms
Here is an alphabetical list of common Amp Impact terms and links with more details.
Amp Impact Label | Possible Related Labels/ Terms | Description | User Guidance | Technical Documentation |
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Activity | Tasks/Milestones | A set of actions that are proposed, designed and performed during the implementation of a project/program. | Workplanning: Create & Manage Activities in an Implementation Plan | |
Actualized Logframe | Theory of Change/Logic Model | A Logical Framework which displays associated Indicators and their baseline data, targets set and results achieved to date. | ||
Add Results |
| Enter and track results for individual project indicators, filtered by reporting period and geographic area.
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Analytics & Data Publishing |
| IATI- Feature that facilitates creating XML files to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative registry using the IATI Activity and IATI Organisation standards. In Amp Impact there are specific objects and fields for entering activity and transaction data and flows for generating XML files that can be uploaded to the IATI registry. | ||
Budget |
| Track the amount of money available to spend and compare it to the money spent on a project. This is a line-item based table with details for accounting the resources available and spent for the project. | ||
Call for Proposals & Application Management |
| Functionality for a grantmaking organization to keep track of and distribute funding to grantee organizations. This often includes an application process where grantee organizations apply for funding by submitting a concept note and/or proposal to the grantmaking organization via a portal and their applications are reviewed. | Calls for Proposal & Application Management: Customization Options | |
Disaggregation Group and Values | Category | Capture detailed data for an indicator by different groupings with associated values. For example Disaggregation group: Age Disaggregation values: Under 5, 6-10, 11+. | Disaggregation Groups & Disaggregation Values: Slice and Dice Indicators | |
Disbursement | Payment | Track the amount and status of financial transactions. | ||
Financial | Budget Line Item | Create and schedule disbursements paid out to grantees/programs. Manage project budget(s) based on planned versus actual expenditure line items. | ||
Financial Management |
| Management of a project's finances-- including project budgets and allocations from different funding sources as well as incoming and/or outgoing payments (disbursements). | ||
Frameworks |
| Feature to display a(n) Organization/Project/Grant/Program's logic model (also called logical framework or results framework). This typically includes Impact, Outcome, and/or Output statements which can be nested underneath each other in a hierarchy. | ||
Geographic Area | Location | Geographic level at which targets are set/results are reported within a project and for each project indicator. For example, country or district. | Library of Reference Data: International Organization for Standardization (ISO) | |
Impact Stories |
| Feature that enables users to capture narrative stories or learnings from their grant or project in an unstructured or semi-structured manner, with the ability to include rich text, links, photos, and videos. |
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Implementation Plan |
| Within a Project, one or more Implementation Plan(s) may be created to organize the timeline and execution of Activities. | ||
Indicator | Metric Key Performance Indicator (KPI) | Catalog of indicators tracked. These may include global and/or customized, project-specific indicators. | ||
Logframe Item | Objective | In a Logical Framework, the list of Objectives that are tracked. The Logframe Item uses the Objective object. These can be identified as various levels - impact, outcome, output, activity, or input. | ||
Modifications |
| Amp Impact object that records proposed and/or confirmed changes to a Project/Grant, such as costed extensions or no-cost extensions. Typically used in conjunction with Grant Management features. | Modifications: Track Proposed or Confirmed Changes to a Project | |
Objective | Goal Outcome | Tag/ categorize indicators within an impact measurement or logic model framework. | ||
Organization Roles |
| Assign and manage a Accounts’s involvement and specific role within a Project. | ||
Performance Graphs |
| View bar charts per individual project indicator comparing target vs results values across all reporting periods. | ||
Program/Project/Grant Setup |
| Functionality for defining the key indicators (performance metrics) for a Project/Grant/Programme, defining how often targets will be set for each indicator and how often results will be reported, and then setting targets and adding results throughout the life cycle of the project/grant/programme. | ||
Project | Grant Investee Program Investment | Unit/ reporting level for managing indicators, internal and external reporting and program management. | ||
Project Roles |
| Assign and manage a contact’s involvement and specific role within a Project. | ||
Project Setup |
| The process of creating an Amp Impact Project record and related records. Related data can include records that define the relationship between Project and Contacts (Project Roles) and Project and Accounts (Organization Roles) as well as other records that are necessary in order to use other Amp Impact features, such as Reporting Periods, Project Geographic Areas, and Frameworks. | ||
Reporting Period |
| Time period for when targets are set/ results are reported within a project and for each project indicator. For example, quarterly or annual. | Reporting Periods: Create & Assign Reporting Periods for your Project | |
Result | Actual | The value for a Project Indicator that is collected through a Project/Program and that may be compared against Target values for that particular Project Indicator. | ||
Risk |
| Risk is the likelihood that an event will occur that will cause some type of undesirable effect. These events can occur anywhere, anytime. They may be predictable or not, controllable or not, and caused by internal or external variables (Source: Open Road Alliance). A Risk record has details such as probability, potential impact and degree of control over the defined Risk. It also specifies a mitigation strategy for said Risk. | ||
Risk Assessment |
| A Risk Assessment is conducted to get information about the latest status of a Risk. | ||
Risk Management |
| Functionality to identify the risks to a project/grant, develop mitigation strategies for risks, conduct periodic assessments of risks, and track risk status. | ||
Risk Register |
| A Risk Register contains a collection of Risks for a Project. | ||
Set Targets |
| Enter and track targets for individual project indicators, filtered by reporting period and geographic area. | ||
Submission | Assessment/Form Builder | An assessment/questionnaire with Sections and Questions that may be scored for evaluation purposes. Alternatively, create a Narrative Report with responses to qualitative Questions. Feature that allows users to create a form template with different types of questions (long text, picklist, etc.), which can be used on any object. These forms can then be assigned manually or automatically to other users to fill out and submit. Responses are stored in the system and can be reviewed and assigned a score, if needed. | ||
Target | Projection Goal | The anticipated or target value to be achieved for a Project Indicator. This may be compared against the Result to evaluate performance. | ||
Template |
| Templates are the master version of a Submission, from which Submissions can be copied and assigned for completion. | ||
Thematic Area | Focus Area Impact Pillar Theme Sector | Tag/ categorize Projects and/or Indicators by themes, or areas of work focus Examples: Health, Education, Energy. |
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Workplanning & Resource Planning |
| Workplanning refers to creating an implementation plan for a project, specifying the activities that will be carried out or milestones to be reached and the timeline for these activities/milestones, and then following up to indicate the completion rate for activities. Activities can be set up in a work breakdown structure and viewed in a Gantt Chart. |