Working document
The ERG annual impact report readiness checklist
Four stages that turn a year of ERG events, receipts and survey answers into a report an executive sponsor can absorb in ten minutes.
Free resources
Resources for running a women's ERG program
Working material for the parts of the job nobody trains you for, which is the budget arithmetic, the tool decision and the annual report to the board.
Everything here is built for the person who actually runs the chapter: the lead who books the speaker, chases the invoice, counts the room and then has to explain all three to an executive sponsor. It is free, it does not require an account, and it assumes you know your trade and simply want the numbers laid out.
Start with the calculators if a budget conversation is coming, with the comparisons if you are deciding whether to leave a spreadsheet behind, and with the board report checklist if your annual report is due and the records are scattered. The Network Ledger carries the longer pieces on charters, stipends, budget lines and where US DEI reporting is heading.
Free tools
Calculators for ERG budget and volunteer load
Two numbers decide most ERG funding conversations, which are what a seat in the room costs and how many unpaid hours the core team is putting in to fill it.
Comparisons
ERGCircle compared with the tools ERG leads already use
Most women's ERG leads inherit a company channel, a shared spreadsheet and a People team survey, so the real question is which of those ERGCircle should replace and which it should sit beside.
Main guide
What actually happens in the two weeks before an ERG annual impact report goes to the board?
It settles how an ERG annual impact report is actually assembled, day by day, from the records a chapter keeps all year through to the packet the board reads.
Magazine
The Network Ledger
Practical reporting for women's ERG leads and diversity program managers running budgets, events and impact inside US companies.
About
Who writes all of this
Who writes this: the background behind The Network Ledger, and why every calculator and checklist here starts from an ERG lead's own attendance, budget and board reporting work rather than from a vendor pitch.
The material is free, the ERG record keeping is the work
Calculators and checklists tell you what an annual impact report needs. They cannot pull a frozen roster, a per event check in file or a ledger by line code out of a year nobody recorded. If you would rather not reconstruct the February panel from memory again, book a demo and see what a chapter record looks like when it builds itself as the program year runs.