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How to Transform a Text-Heavy Report into a Visual-Lite Report
Depict Data Studio breaks down how to transform a text-heavy report into a visual-lite report in five easy steps that you can tackle in just two hours: Including a 20-Minute Cover, a Text Hierarchy, a Color-Code by Section, Intentional Page Breaks and More Visuals.
Tags: Data Visualization Resources, Deeper Dive, Nonprofit Metrics & Impact
October 2, 2021
Policy Visualization Style Guide
This policy visualization design guide breaks down each element needed to convey a powerful story using visualization.
Urban Institute’s Style Guide
Use this data visualization style guide to create a uniform look and feel to all of Urban’s charts and graphs. This site contains guidelines that are in line with data visualization best practices and proven design principles. It also eliminates the burden of design and color decisions when creating charts.
Visualizing Small Datasets
Stephanie Evergreen’s short blog post breaks down visualizing small datasets.
How to Support Your Data Interpretations
We All Count develops tools, case studies, practices, and systems to improve equity in data science. This information is combined to create the Data Equity Framework, a living, feedback-responsive system for addressing data project equity which is continually updated, added to, and refined.
Tags: Deeper Dive, Evaluation Methods & Strategies, Nonprofit Metrics & Impact
The Business Case for Home Visiting
This PEW Research Center document on The Business Case for Home Visiting emphasizes the compelling evidence that home visitation promotes learning and success, and ultimately why it matters to business leaders.
Tags: Deeper Dive, Early Childcare & Education (birth - 4), Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources, Families, Health & Wellness
Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead
Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead, a Stanford Social Innovation Review article, simplified the task of improving data collection and analysis with a three-question test. The author emphasized that if your organization cannot answer yes to at least one of the following questions, then your organization probably should not be collecting data. 1) Can and will the (cost-effectively collected) data help manage the day-to-day operations or design decisions for your program? 2) Are the data useful for accountability, to verify that the organization is doing what it said it would do? 3) Will your organization commit to using the data and make investments in organizational structures necessary to do so?
Programs That Work
From 1998 to 2014, the Promising Practices Network (PPN) on Children, Families and Communities (www.promisingpractices.net) provided information on programs and practices that credible research indicated are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. This document contains the summaries of the Programs That Work section of the PPN website, as of June 2014, when the project concluded.
The Generalizability Puzzle
The Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Generalizability Puzzle is a paper that recognizes that any practical policy question must be broken into parts. Some parts of the problem will be answered with local institutional knowledge and descriptive data, and some will be answered with evidence from impact evaluations in other contexts. The generalizability framework set out in this paper provides a practical approach for combining evidence of different kinds to assess whether a given policy will likely work in a new context. If researchers and policy makers continue to view results of impact evaluations as a black box and fail to focus on mechanisms, the movement toward evidence-based policy making will fall far short of its potential for improving people’s lives.
Tags: Advocacy & Policy & Government, Deeper Dive, Evaluation Methods & Strategies, Nonprofit Metrics & Impact
Housing Partnership Network Policy Team
The Policy team of the Housing Partnership Network (HPN) works with Congress and federal agencies to improve the effectiveness of housing and community development programs and ultimately the outcomes for our communities. HPN works across the spectrum of affordable housing needs from preventing homelessness to producing rental housing and providing for homeownership opportunities. They respond to community needs in urban, suburban and rural areas, as well as being committed to creating thriving neighborhoods and working for racial justice.
Tags: Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources, Housing & Homelessness
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