Impact Evenings
Impact Evenings is a bi-monthly Friday evening get-together with social impact practitioners unpacking what drives – and disrupts – impact.
Each session takes on one angle on impact work and opens it up.
Maybe it’s about how grants get written and what that does to the work on the ground. Maybe it's about how we measure what's invisible. Or maybe it's something no one's talking about yet.
The topic and format shifts but the spirit stays the same: honest, practical exchange between people doing impact work in different contexts.
What to expect
A specific angle on impact work – funding, measuring, making, or something else entirely – examined through the eyes of a practitioner who's knee deep in it.
Formats that vary: fireside chat, facilitated discussion, or something more hands-on. Always a conversation, never a lecture.
A guest practitioner who shapes the session. They bring the lens; the room brings the conversation.
Something concrete to take back – an idea, a reframe, or an approach worth trying.
People from across sectors, all doing impact work in different contexts.
Who is this for?
This is for you if you:
are engaged in impact work, whether you're in the nonprofit, public, or private sector
are curious about how others are approaching complex problems and shifting systems
are keen to show up ready to engage, not just observe
want to hear from people actively doing the work in different contexts
Upcoming sessions
What role do physical third spaces play in building active communities?This year, Common Ground is making a case: physical, practitioner-led third spaces are essential infrastructure for active communities.
Not third spaces in general, but ones where a skilled practitioner is deliberately stewarding resources and designing interventions for community to form and grow.
We're opening the series with this question through a lightly structured Unconference format.
Whether you're a practitioner from an impact hub, a community builder building community or someone in the world of impact, come with a perspective or a question — and your dinner!
SESSION DETAILS📅 Date: 29 May 2026 (Fri)
⏰ Time: 7pm - 9pm
📍 Location: Common Ground Civic Centre (21 Bedok North Street 1, Singapore 469659)
ABOUT IMPACT EVENINGSImpact Evenings is a Friday evening get-together for practitioners in the work of impact, whether you are in the people, private, and public sectors, to unpack what drives – and disrupts – impact.
ABOUT OUR COMMITMENT FEESIn our other community programmes, we collect a small commitment fee at $10 (excl. GST) to cover refreshments, materials, and to keep the sessions running smoothly.
For Impact Evenings, we've priced the commitment fee at $20 (excl. GST). The difference goes directly to our guest speakers and facilitators who help make this series possible, as a small token of appreciation for their time and effort. We think that's worth it, and we hope you do too :)
Good impact work needs a good impact story. So, why does the sector treat it as an afterthought?This session, we're making a case: as social impact practitioners, we spend most of our effort delivering the work, and comparatively lesser effort understanding what actually changed and what real impact was made because of it.
Co-hosted with Green Nudge, we're stepping back from how to tell a good impact story to ask a more fundamental one – have we done the work to know what to tell?
Across three provocations, we'll dig into why the sector defaults to reporting what's easy to count; what gets missed when harder-to-see change goes undocumented; and what it would take to fund and resource that work properly.
Practitioners, comms leads, or funders – come with a real example from your own work. And your dinner!
SESSION DETAILS📅 Date: 31 July 2026 (Fri)
⏰ Time: 7pm - 9pm
📍 Location: Common Ground Civic Centre (21 Bedok North Street 1, Singapore 469659)
ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTWe're co-hosting with Green Nudge because they've sat with this exact tension — not just talked about it.
Every December, they publish an Impact Summary Report — a deliberate pause to ask "what actually happened here" before telling anyone about it. Li Seng has since reflected that undervaluing the work of understanding change can mean undervaluing the change itself.
That's exactly why they're the right partner for this session.
Click here to find out more Green Nudge!
ABOUT IMPACT EVENINGSImpact Evenings is a Friday evening get-together for practitioners in the work of impact, whether you are in the people, private, and public sectors, to unpack what drives – and disrupts – impact.
ABOUT OUR COMMITMENT FEESIn our other community programmes, we collect a small commitment fee at $10 (excl. GST) to cover refreshments, materials, and to keep the sessions running smoothly.
For Impact Evenings, we've priced the commitment fee at $20 (excl. GST). The difference goes directly to our guest speakers and facilitators who help make this series possible, as a small token of appreciation for their time and effort. We think that's worth it, and we hope you do too :)