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  1. How do you measure impact?
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    With respect to community+City , bringing + giving back what we have taken away
  2. How do you measure impact?
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    Listen and observe, preferably from as close to the area of highest impact as possible.
  3. How do you measure impact?
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    Reshaping the skyscape
  4. How do you measure impact?
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    Résine
  5. How do you measure impact?
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    The number of people helped to attain a better quality of life.
  6. How do you measure impact?
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    universal change rooms
  7. How do you measure impact?
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    opportunity
  8. How do you measure impact?
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    boldness
  9. How do you measure impact?
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    By time and universality. The time that your work, words, thoughts, or ideas will be remembered by the others who will come after you. And how universal they could be.
  10. How do you measure impact?
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    other's growth
  11. How do you measure impact?
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    accessibility
  12. How do you measure impact?
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    Measure it by how the quality of peoples' lives improves or gets worse.
  13. How do you measure impact?
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    carbon footprint
  14. How do you measure impact?
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    if a clear and tangible connection is made between outcomes and benefits
  15. How do you measure impact?
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    genuine understanding of one another
  16. How do you measure impact?
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    remediation
  17. How do you measure impact?
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    access and possibilities before + after
  18. How do you measure impact?
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    Measuring progress towards the goal
  19. How do you measure impact?
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    Wow factor
  20. How do you measure impact?
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    the number of people an action affects
  21. How do you measure impact?
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    by how many slices of pizza?
  22. How do you measure impact?
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    By how far we have come.
  23. How do you measure impact?
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    by finding out how many people are talking about whatever you are doing, and their sentiment.
  24. How do you measure impact?
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    ounces
  25. How do you measure impact?
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    Happiness of the community and balance of the natural environment starting from where I live to global.
  26. How do you measure impact?
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    I see it as a two-part process. First you need to measure change. Then you need to establish a causal relationship between the change you measured, and what you assume is causing the change or producing the impact.
  27. How do you measure impact?
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    By creating measurable goals and timelines
  28. How do you measure impact?
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    How many people I helped
  29. How do you measure impact?
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    With analytics and by observing people's behaviour
  30. How do you measure impact?
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    visible changes
  31. How do you measure impact?
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    Through adoption
  32. How do you measure impact?
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    in people kindness
  33. How do you measure impact?
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    peace of mind
  34. How do you measure impact?
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    feeling
  35. How do you measure impact?
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    by reponses
  36. How do you measure impact?
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    看有多少人會討論一個話題
  37. How do you measure impact?
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    through change
  38. How do you measure impact?
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    Number of lives you have positively influenced
  39. How do you measure impact?
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    Contrast between the start point and the current. A shift from the norm, and in the right direction is also progress.
  40. How do you measure impact?
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    green
  41. How do you measure impact?
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    To see the outcomes and compare
  42. How do you measure impact?
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    in pride
  43. How do you measure impact?
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    Divide kinetic energy by distance
  44. How do you measure impact?
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    financially
  45. How do you measure impact?
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    effective result
  46. How do you measure impact?
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    residential
  47. How do you measure impact?
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    It depends
  48. How do you measure impact?
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    through gravity
  49. How do you measure impact?
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    village core
  50. How do you measure impact?
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    through the difference it makes in people's lives
  51. How do you measure impact?
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    the same way one would hope to view their bank account on the + side.
  52. How do you measure impact?
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    Outcomes
  53. How do you measure impact?
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    By the lasting impression it has
  54. How do you measure impact?
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    measure
  55. How do you measure impact?
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    hamburgers
  56. How do you measure impact?
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    facial expression
  57. How do you measure impact?
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    by counting the number of people that do or don't: go, eat, use, buy, listen, recommend, take a photo, share, change, etc. any possible "thing, item, activity, moment..."
  58. How do you measure impact?
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    Creating lasting memories.
  59. How do you measure impact?
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    gut feeling
  60. How do you measure impact?
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    Know thyself
  61. How do you measure impact?
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    Awareness
  62. How do you measure impact?
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    people happiness
  63. How do you measure impact?
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    With emotions
  64. How do you measure impact?
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    tears
  65. How do you measure impact?
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    testing ideas
  66. How do you measure impact?
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    Desirable outcomes
  67. How do you measure impact?
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    based on emotional response
  68. How do you measure impact?
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    degrees of jaw-drop
  69. How do you measure impact?
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    I assess impact based on quality and quantity metrics.
  70. How do you measure impact?
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    By acts of kindness
  71. How do you measure impact?
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    Who are we
  72. How do you measure impact?
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    improved quality of life for all
  73. How do you measure impact?
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    healthy humans
  74. How do you measure impact?
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    health
  75. How do you measure impact?
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    community engagement
  76. How do you measure impact?
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    Through a collaborative and iterative process.
  77. How do you measure impact?
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    the level of destruction
  78. How do you measure impact?
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    joy
  79. How do you measure impact?
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    Through legacy, both visible and invisible.
  80. How do you measure impact?
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    size of impression
  81. How do you measure impact?
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    lasting change
  82. How do you measure impact?
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    idea over time
  83. How do you measure impact?
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    Across the spectrum of ability to disability.
  84. How do you measure impact?
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    smile
  85. How do you measure impact?
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    smiles per hour
  86. How do you measure impact?
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    boom
  87. How do you measure impact?
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    The ability to inspire and bring change!
  88. How do you measure impact?
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    number of people who take note of your action
  89. How do you measure impact?
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    One person at a time!
  90. How do you measure impact?
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    With some activity I undertake, I look to see whose lives have been (or can be) positively improved, and how far reaching (and or deep) that action is. The further the reach, or the more deeply that something connects, the stronger the impact.
  91. How do you measure impact?
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    Energy
  92. How do you measure impact?
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    Actual material impact, not performative rhetoric and self-promotion
  93. How do you measure impact?
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    by the way it comes out
  94. How do you measure impact?
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    environmental damage
  95. How do you measure impact?
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    richter scale
  96. How do you measure impact?
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    Reseach
  97. How do you measure impact?
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    metric tons
  98. How do you measure impact?
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    by the outcome & involvement
  99. How do you measure impact?
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    adapted innovation
  100. How do you measure impact?
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    rulers
  101. How do you measure impact?
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    passive house
  102. How do you measure impact?
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    You feel it emanating and growing within your body.
  103. How do you measure impact?
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    longer lives
  104. How do you measure impact?
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    water consumption
  105. How do you measure impact?
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    The change that it creates
  106. How do you measure impact?
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    feelings
  107. How do you measure impact?
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    How it makes people around it feel
  108. How do you measure impact?
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    reduction of volume
  109. How do you measure impact?
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    share
  110. How do you measure impact?
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    environmental
  111. How do you measure impact?
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    by reactions
  112. How do you measure impact?
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    vibes!
  113. How do you measure impact?
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    reaction to what is being done
  114. How do you measure impact?
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    by its positive reach
  115. How do you measure impact?
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    Legacy
  116. How do you measure impact?
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    with an impact ruler
  117. How do you measure impact?
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    inclusivity
  118. How do you measure impact?
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    changed behavior
  119. How do you measure impact?
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    how many people have strong opinions about it
  120. How do you measure impact?
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    engagement
  121. How do you measure impact?
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    Kindness
  122. How do you measure impact?
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    Impact is measured by the legacy that a person leaves for themselves to others, be it good or bad. Usually, the better the legacy, the better the impact, however such isn't always the case. Someone could be generous and donate to big-name charity events, however, still throw litter out onto a national park.
  123. How do you measure impact?
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    change in human behaviour
  124. How do you measure impact?
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    through feedback & engagement
  125. How do you measure impact?
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    by results
  126. How do you measure impact?
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    integrate force over time
  127. How do you measure impact?
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    How the things/beings change in response to _________
  128. How do you measure impact?
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    by making a comparison between what would have happened differently inn the absence of a certain output and estimating a cause-effect relationship.
  129. How do you measure impact?
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    interviews
  130. How do you measure impact?
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    impression
  131. How do you measure impact?
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    with a yardstick
  132. How do you measure impact?
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    by observing the deformation
  133. How do you measure impact?
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    unity
  134. How do you measure impact?
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    by reaction
  135. How do you measure impact?
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    integrity
  136. How do you measure impact?
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    wayfinding
  137. How do you measure impact?
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    does it promote equitable human flourishing?
  138. How do you measure impact?
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    Numbers
  139. How do you measure impact?
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    Movement
  140. How do you measure impact?
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    responsible resource extraction
  141. How do you measure impact?
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    by the response
  142. How do you measure impact?
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    through emotions
  143. How do you measure impact?
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    with metrics
  144. How do you measure impact?
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    Remembering visuals that made it to that stage.
  145. How do you measure impact?
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    when effects are felt in everyday tasks
  146. How do you measure impact?
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    life cycle analysis
  147. How do you measure impact?
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    voice
  148. How do you measure impact?
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    number of buildings that cause people to question
  149. How do you measure impact?
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    number of people who notice the needs of others
  150. How do you measure impact?
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    number of thoughts which are positive vs negative
  151. How do you measure impact?
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    number of expresso shots in a day
  152. How do you measure impact?
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    number of hours spent typing on the hcma blog
  153. How do you measure impact?
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    number of Covid 19 cases averted
  154. How do you measure impact?
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    number of angry people subdued
  155. How do you measure impact?
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    number of walks along a beach
  156. How do you measure impact?
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    number of bagels eaten
  157. How do you measure impact?
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    number of posts a day
  158. How do you measure impact?
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    number of architects who speak up
  159. How do you measure impact?
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    number of wars averted
  160. How do you measure impact?
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    number of meaningful questioned asked
  161. How do you measure impact?
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    number of heads turned
  162. How do you measure impact?
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    number of social housing units delivered
  163. How do you measure impact?
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    Action
  164. How do you measure impact?
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    Before and after comparison
  165. How do you measure impact?
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    projects
  166. How do you measure impact?
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    Audience response
  167. How do you measure impact?
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    smilies
  168. How do you measure impact?
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    through joy
  169. How do you measure impact?
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    passion
  170. How do you measure impact?
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    public response
  171. How do you measure impact?
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    transformation
  172. How do you measure impact?
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    don't know
  173. How do you measure impact?
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    mountain climbing
  174. How do you measure impact?
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    on reflection
  175. How do you measure impact?
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    adoption rate
  176. How do you measure impact?
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    through reaction
  177. How do you measure impact?
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    Love
  178. How do you measure impact?
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    depending on the consequences that it causes
  179. How do you measure impact?
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    Anyone can make a difference. When every person takes accountability for their actions towards creating a better environment, it is no longer called impact, it is a way of life.
  180. How do you measure impact?
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    Anyone can make a difference. When every person takes accountability for their actions towards creating a better environment, it is no longer called impact, it is a way of life.
  181. How do you measure impact?
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    through changes in lived experience at the community and individual levels.
  182. How do you measure impact?
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    By the want of people to return to the space over and over again.
  183. How do you measure impact?
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    level of change.
  184. How do you measure impact?
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    Historically? It would seem that perspective allows for measuring. 1mm can't measure a metre. You're going to have to bend space and time.
  185. How do you measure impact?
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    by how people respond
  186. How do you measure impact?
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    when learning takes place
  187. How do you measure impact?
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    progress
  188. How do you measure impact?
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    Change in people's lives
  189. How do you measure impact?
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    By the resulting change in behaviors of people and in the positive or negative change in the surrounding environment.
  190. How do you measure impact?
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    scale
  191. How do you measure impact?
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    dedication
  192. How do you measure impact?
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    you just do
  193. How do you measure impact?
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    inspiration
  194. How do you measure impact?
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    stats
  195. How do you measure impact?
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    laser tool
  196. How do you measure impact?
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    statistics
  197. How do you measure impact?
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    with a ruler!!!
  198. How do you measure impact?
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    reach
  199. How do you measure impact?
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    in trees
  200. How do you measure impact?
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    Score
  201. How do you measure impact?
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    Self awareness
  202. How do you measure impact?
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    with a tape measure
  203. How do you measure impact?
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    making a positive difference in the lives of people
  204. How do you measure impact?
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    From deep within: When efforts/behaviors/actions create uplifting sense of well-being among those impacted
  205. How do you measure impact?
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    Dollars
  206. How do you measure impact?
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    By living with integrity
  207. How do you measure impact?
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    results & change
  208. How do you measure impact?
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    Impact can be personal or collective, and is measured by change witnessed or experienced in a person, place or community. - ek
  209. How do you measure impact?
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    Depth
  210. How do you measure impact?
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    in awareness of context - interdependencies - and the opportunity in singularity as resonance with interdependencies
  211. How do you measure impact?
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    By the Impression you leave.
  212. How do you measure impact?
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    By lives changed, and honored.
  213. How do you measure impact?
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    by intensity and breadth of response
  214. How do you measure impact?
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    By the size of the dent
  215. How do you measure impact?
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    people like my work
  216. How do you measure impact?
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    Neutons
  217. How do you measure impact?
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    asking
  218. How do you measure impact?
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    discipline
  219. How do you measure impact?
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    with a inclusive culture
  220. How do you measure impact?
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    by asking questions
  221. How do you measure impact?
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    connection
  222. How do you measure impact?
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    Emotions that you elicit
  223. How do you measure impact?
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    By analyzing the outcome of the change
  224. How do you measure impact?
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    by the way people will talk about it 5 years later
  225. How do you measure impact?
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    meaning
  226. How do you measure impact?
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    kg m s−1
  227. How do you measure impact?
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    a smile
  228. How do you measure impact?
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    art for social change
  229. How do you measure impact?
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    by seeing the change
  230. How do you measure impact?
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    Change of thought
  231. How do you measure impact?
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    Community response and adoption
  232. How do you measure impact?
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    interaction
  233. How do you measure impact?
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    with the amount of negative response
  234. How do you measure impact?
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    with hapiness
  235. How do you measure impact?
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    health care
  236. How do you measure impact?
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    by how an action affects (either positively or negatively) those around me
  237. How do you measure impact?
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    inclusion
  238. How do you measure impact?
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    By seeing the result
  239. How do you measure impact?
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    community ownership and use
  240. How do you measure impact?
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    repeated testing
  241. How do you measure impact?
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    satisfaction
  242. How do you measure impact?
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    By following an idea, implementing it and continue to follow to see the success and how that help the community and the environment. Small changes make a difference without people noticing, sometimes
  243. How do you measure impact?
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    outcome
  244. How do you measure impact?
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    By observing to what extent the lives of individuals shift
  245. How do you measure impact?
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    Change in Community
  246. How do you measure impact?
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    Through getting feedback from the community that was affected
  247. How do you measure impact?
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    smiles
  248. How do you measure impact?
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    University
  249. How do you measure impact?
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    With qualitative and quantitative research
  250. How do you measure impact?
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    Notebook
  251. How do you measure impact?
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    the amount of influence it has on a community
  252. How do you measure impact?
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    Through observing the outcome?!
  253. How do you measure impact?
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    responsibility
  254. How do you measure impact?
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    depends on the font, kerning, size, and style of the text.
  255. How do you measure impact?
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    by observing results defined by description of the desired impact.
  256. How do you measure impact?
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    Making change
  257. How do you measure impact?
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    Analysis of results
  258. How do you measure impact?
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    Quality of Life Index
  259. How do you measure impact?
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    change
  260. How do you measure impact?
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    I consider the entire context, every party touched and look at the cumulative experience
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    By estimating the counterfactual in design
  262. How do you measure impact?
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    socially , physically and emotionally
  263. How do you measure impact?
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    Analysis
  264. How do you measure impact?
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    team
  265. How do you measure impact?
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    through meaningful projects which being about change
  266. How do you measure impact?
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    By the number of trees.
  267. How do you measure impact?
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    emotion
  268. How do you measure impact?
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    force
  269. How do you measure impact?
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    by how it brings hope and happiness
  270. How do you measure impact?
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    uniqueness
  271. How do you measure impact?
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    by how easily I can recall something
  272. How do you measure impact?
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    positive, tangible differences in the lives of people
  273. How do you measure impact?
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    Peoples opinion before, during, after
  274. How do you measure impact?
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    Number of people made lastingly happier
  275. How do you measure impact?
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    by talking to the most affected communities first
  276. How do you measure impact?
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    community
  277. How do you measure impact?
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    feedback
  278. How do you measure impact?
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    not sure
  279. How do you measure impact?
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    cats
  280. How do you measure impact?
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    Wider impact through the general social conscious, or data.
  281. How do you measure impact?
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    outcome.
  282. How do you measure impact?
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    effect on one's memory
  283. How do you measure impact?
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    in newtons.
  284. How do you measure impact?
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    emotional response
  285. How do you measure impact?
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    career
  286. How do you measure impact?
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    wellness
  287. How do you measure impact?
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    outcome. results. tangible and intangible ones
  288. How do you measure impact?
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    depends. but everything, if possible should be considered
  289. How do you measure impact?
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    seeing tiny changes
  290. How do you measure impact?
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    happiness
  291. How do you measure impact?
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    ripple effect
  292. How do you measure impact?
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    dont know
  293. How do you measure impact?
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    thoughtfulness
  294. How do you measure impact?
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    inspiring others
  295. How do you measure impact?
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    Observation
  296. How do you measure impact?
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    happiness index
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    in whatever way that works to mirror the complexity of desired impact
  298. How do you measure impact?
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    with love
  299. How do you measure impact?
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    The amount of people touched by an action or change
  300. How do you measure impact?
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    with an impactometer
  301. How do you measure impact?
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    conversation
  302. How do you measure impact?
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    Data, numbers, facts, you know how we've been doing it for a millennia or two
  303. How do you measure impact?
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    Comfort
  304. How do you measure impact?
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    people
  305. How do you measure impact?
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    E = 1/2 m v2
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    USER FEEDBACK
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    By the ability to reach a diverse range of people, communities, pets, etc
  308. How do you measure impact?
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    by looking backwards
  309. How do you measure impact?
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    Impact is measured by its outcome
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    by smiles of the councils that voted in favor of the specific project.
  311. How do you measure impact?
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    will people show up to my funeral?
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    Diversity of interest
  313. How do you measure impact?
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    evaluating core variables
  314. How do you measure impact?
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    changed lives
  315. How do you measure impact?
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    emotions
  316. How do you measure impact?
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    footprint
  317. How do you measure impact?
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    in smiles :)
  318. How do you measure impact?
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    Sorry, I've no clue
  319. How do you measure impact?
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    The size of the crater left behind
  320. How do you measure impact?
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    ask people their opinion
  321. How do you measure impact?
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    By setting out very clear measurables before starting.
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    ecologic
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    how it makes me feel
  324. How do you measure impact?
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    Knowing how many people are happy with the result
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    number
  326. How do you measure impact?
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    positive change in hearts and minds
  327. How do you measure impact?
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    by positive change
  328. How do you measure impact?
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    Environment
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    Results
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    by the reaction
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    thoughts of other people
  332. How do you measure impact?
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    math
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    creativity
  334. How do you measure impact?
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    by how much love shared throughout the world
  335. How do you measure impact?
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    Through the positive ripple effect it creates
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    with a seismometer
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    humphrey bogart
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    by looking at people reaction
  339. How do you measure impact?
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    community coming alive
  340. How do you measure impact?
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    Ask people who might be impacted
  341. How do you measure impact?
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    Reaction
  342. How do you measure impact?
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    when there is a social behavior change
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    by jumping and then measuring
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    money
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    New friendships formed
  346. How do you measure impact?
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    hugs
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