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.
More than Numbers
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies (Schusterman) developed this More than Numbers guide for organizations who seek to apply a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens to their internal data collection processes and assess and improve how they collect constituent information through tools such as alumni surveys and program evaluations. This guide does not address data collection for formal demography, national population estimates or academic research.
Nonprofit Fundraising Metrics
Donor Searches "Nonprofit Fundraising Metrics" article breaks down 26 ways to accurately measure your organizational progress, successes and shortcomings (and then build on those lessons for future campaigns). Nonprofit KPIs, or nonprofit fundraising metrics, can improve strategies, programs, and, ultimately, fundraising numbers if your nonprofit tracks them wisely. This guide covers everything you need to know about nonprofit fundraising metrics and offer 26 essential KPIs for your nonprofit to track by going over the following: Overview of nonprofit fundraising metrics, Nonprofit fundraising metrics best practices, General nonprofit fundraising metrics, Donor relationship metrics, Giving level metrics, Engagement metrics, Online performance metrics
Measuring Success How Robin Hood Estimates the Impact of Grants
Robin Hood fights poverty in New York City. The goal is to make grant decisions to maximize poverty-fighting impact, much like a financial manager chooses investments to maximize profit. The metrics project described in this manuscript has been designed to create just such a scorecard, showing ratios that guide investment decisions as financial rates and giving grants to programs that yield high benefit-cost ratios. Grant-making decisions rely on the detailed expertise of program officers as well as numerical calculations. Metrics are always under revision, a virtually never-ending project.
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.