Interactive Chart Chooser
Wondering which type of graph is the best fit for your data? Explore our interactive chart chooser using the filters. For example, if you click on 3+ Points in Time, you’ll see familiar faces like line graphs and meet new friends like multimedia timelines.
Color Safe
Color Safe is a website that helps you pick visually accessible color pallets. It empowers designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.
Understanding the Possibility of a Program Leading to Longer-term Change
Partnerships for Strategic Impact created a two-pager to help social sector partners use scientific research to understanding whether a program is likely to help clients create longer-term change in their lives. This is how you connect the immediate impact your clients receive (and which you can measure) to the longer-term change you hope they make (and which you cannot measure).
Building a Common Outcome Framework to Measure Nonprofit Performance
The Urban Institute and its project partner, The Center for What Works, collaborated to identify a set of common outcomes and outcome indicators or “common framework” in the measurement of performance for nonprofits. The report, Building a Common Outcome Framework to Measure Nonprofit Performance identified a more standardized approach for nonprofits and organizations that choose to fund their efforts. The authors hope that this how-to guidance can help nonprofit organizations reduce their time and cost of implementing an outcome measurement process and improve its quality. With improved and more consistent reporting from grantees, funders, too, would be better able to assess and compare the results of their grants. This has been prepared so that the current results can be used as a resource for nonprofit organizations and their funders.
Common Results Catalog
The GuideStar Common Results Catalog allows organizations to measure progress and results. Since the metrics your organization shares are your choice, they should reflect what you already collect and use. To help you think about them, the Common Results Catalog was created. This catalog contains all of the metrics currently in our database—by subject area—developed in consultation with teams of experts. Browse the catalog to see what metrics make sense for your organization. If you don’t find a metric that fits, you can add a custom metric.