How are SDG impacts calculated?
Each project on B1G1 is associated with at least 1 and up to 3 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Every time you give, we equally divide your impacts across the relevant SDGs so you can track your impact towards each Goal easily.
When a Worthy Cause requests to add a new project on B1G1, our team reviews the project together with the Worthy Cause, determining which SDGs are most closely aligned with the project’s goals.
When a project is aligned with more than 1 SDG, your impacts will be divided across your SDG widgets. This means that if you contribute 100 impacts to a project that aligns with both No Poverty and Quality Education, each of these widgets will increase by 50 (100÷2).
Impacts are also rounded down to a whole number in your SDG widgets, this means that if you contribute 1 impact to a project that aligns with No Poverty, Quality Education, each of these widgets will increase by 0 (1÷2 then rounded down).
Frequently Asked Question
Why are there some discrepancies in our impacts on our Widgets? Our SDG widgets don't seem to show all of the impacts that are in our other impact counters...
The impact numbers showing with B1G1's SDG widgets include ALL types of impacts that fall under the specific SDGs. And since each project may be linked with multiple SDGs, we split the impact counts across the number of SDGs that the project is linked to. Because of this, the number showing in the SDG counters instead of the specific impact counters can be much smaller. For example, if x meals were given to the homeless but the meals rescued was also counted as a part of environmental impacts because of the waste reduction efforts, the impacts created get counted in both Zero Hunger and Climate Action but the number of impacts gets divided into two. Some cases, 3-4 SDGs might be linked to one project.This is to avoid double counting of impacts. SDG Widgets exist to simply show the spread of the Members' impacts across multiple SDGs (rather than showing the counts of specific items) so the counting method is very different from other Widgets.