Impact Marathons

579 kilometres. On a public bus. With a 7-year-old girl needing hospital.

That's the first line on a report sitting on my desk this week. One page of A4 from our Nepal partner, Burns Violence Survivors Nepal, accounting for a year of work. This year, Impact Runners supported three patients.

BVS-Nepal works from one modest office in Dhobighat. Every rupee accounted for, and has been for 10 years now. We even know we've got a closing balance carried forward to next year.

We're going to need your help to build that balance back up and grow the impact again...but that's not the topic here.

And honestly, this is the stuff that keeps us going.

Full story here:

https://impactmarathon.substack.com/p/five-hundred-and-seventy-nine-kilometres

This is the thinking that underpins everything we build.

Over ten years, across four continents, a clear order has emerged for what makes an Impact Week actually work:

Community. Culture. Commerce. Challenge.

The order matters.

Challenge may be what brings people in. But it is not where we start.

We start with community because the work must be rooted in something real.
We build through culture because a place should be experienced, not ticked off.
We think seriously about commerce because impact is also about where our money goes.
And then comes challenge, not as the whole point, but as the culmination of everything that came before it.

These 4 Cs will be tied to every story we share over the months ahead, but they are also the foundation underneath the whole thing.

This is what we are building from.

If you want the fuller thinking behind it, the blog is linked in bio.

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