Prosperity Now Scorecard – Custom Reports
Use the tools here to download reports and graphics summarizing the data for your state or local area and the strengths and weaknesses of your state’s policies. You can create and customize data and policy reports that you can share with stakeholders or use as "leave-behinds" when meeting with policymakers. You can also create graphics that break down state policy adoption as well as data by race and over time, which can easily be inserted into reports or presentations. You can also create data tables that allow you to download the Scorecard data in table format.
Part 3: Project GROWS Links Individual Success with a Vision for Systems Change
Project GROWS uses their Strategic Impact Map™ to plan out how they track mission fulfillment. This is a second blog about the first step of the ImpactStory™ Strategy – and how creating a Solid Framework provides the basis for telling powerful impact stories.
How to Turn Narrative Survey Responses into Data You Can Use
I almost always recommend including open-ended questions at the end of surveys. This allows you to get some free-form, narrative responses from your clients. These narrative responses can be rich and detailed, and can give you valuable, unexpected information. But, what do you DO with them?!?
Why Benchmarking Doesn’t Work in the Social Sector
Benchmarking in the social sector is tricky because – while more productivity (i.e., serving more people) and more impact (i.e., more goodness in the world) seem like they would always be desirable – that’s not always the case! More is not necessarily better, and efficiency is often not the goal.
Actionable Measurement Guide
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Guide to Actionable Measurement is driven by three basic principles: 1) Measurement should be designed with a purpose in mind — to inform decisions and/or actions; 2) Do not measure everything but strive to measure what matters most; 3) Because the foundation’s work is organized by strategies, the data we gather help us learn and adapt our initiatives and approaches. This guide includes a results matrix, definitions of terms in our results hierarchy, and a set of measurement guidelines intended to shape internal decisions about depth, breadth, and rigor of measurement across grants and within strategies. The guide also highlights the good practices they aspire to follow to be good stewards and not increase the reporting burden faced by our grantees or distract from their work.