Impact
As we strive to build a better world, we are dedicated to more than ensuring that the water flows and buildings stand for years to come. We’re committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of our partners and our volunteers. Here’s a glimpse at how we’re doing so far.
View ReportApproach to Impact Study
The foundation for EWB-USA’s approach to impact is a planning, monitoring, and evaluation framework that promotes learning and improved performance across the organization. Robust evaluation methodologies establish clear links between past, present and future initiatives. These processes help EWB-USA to better understand and account for the extent to which our efforts are going in the right direction, whether progress and success can be claimed, whether we are making the changes we hoped to make, and how future efforts might be improved.
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Plan
Identify Issues & Design Interventions -
Build
Implement Lasting Infrastructure to Meet Needs -
Learn
Analyze Progress Toward Partner Goals -
Apply
Integrate Learning for Process Improvement
Measuring Impact
Our volunteers apply their technical skills to meet the world's most pressing challenges. Their careers and their lives are changed forever through these experiences. We are committed to learning form their observations continuing to foster global leaders in engineering.
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No glass ceilings around here.
More than 40% of EWB-USA's student volunteers engineers are female, which is more than double the 14% industry average. -
A community for the curious and altruistic.
Studies find that EWB-USA volunteers are more open to new experiences and more motivated to serve the social good than their peers. -
We think outside the box.
EWB-USA volunteers exhibit higher-than-average professional skills, making them coveted recruits by the world's premier engineering firms.
Our vision of success is for our partner communities to enjoy an improved quality of life as a result of our collaboration. We measure more than the project functionality. Our framework assesses quality of life changes—from both successful projects and failures.
- 70%
OF PROJECTS
WERE FUNCTIONAL
AS DESIGNED - 82%
OF PROJECTS
DEMONSTRATED MAINTENANCE HAD BEEN SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED - 91%
OF COMMUNITIES
SHOWED THE CAPACITY
TO SUSTAIN THE PROJECT