Bonus: How to Measure Nonprofit Impact When the Work Is Relational (Moms Connect Dubuque)

Bonus: How to Measure Nonprofit Impact When the Work Is Relational (Moms Connect Dubuque)

Published: October 5, 2026

Duration: 4:15

We stopped recording...and then kept talking. (As one does.)

In this bonus clip from my conversation with Kristina Heinzen and Gina Martin, co-founders of Moms Connect Dubuque, we get into a question every nonprofit leader, funder, and community builder runs into sooner or later: how do you measure impact when the work is relational and generational?

Counting is easy for most of us. A thousand meals served, fifty-five packs of diapers handed out.

But Moms Connect is building relationships with moms as they work to break patterns that kept them alive for...