Case Study: ACHIEVA demonstrates its economic impact with IMPLAN

ACHIEVA quantifies impact supporting 12,000 people with IMPLAN

Achieva, a nonprofit supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities, faced the common challenge of small to medium-sized nonprofits: being perceived as having little economic influence. To demonstrate its value to legislators and donors, it needed a way to quantify its economic impact. It turned to IMPLAN for an economic impact analysis.

Using IMPLAN, Achieva was able to measure both the direct and indirect effects of its spending and employment on the local economy. This analysis provided Achieva with reliable metrics, which it leveraged to successfully lobby for increased government grants and more beneficial legislation. IMPLAN provided the data-devised evidence needed to prove the degree to which the local economy relies on the organization.

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