Learning & Event Calendar

Presented by Idealware ($200, NDANO Members receive $30 discount for 5-part webinar)
In our increasingly data-driven world, nonprofits need to be able to measure and monitor the effectiveness of their programs more than ever. It’s difficult to improve program services or reach without first understanding what's working and what isn't. Gathering the right data is key. From how many meals served at your soup kitchen or the number of students in a mentoring program who graduate high school to the percent of your target population without access to affordable housing, being able to track such numbers can help you identify the improvement or impact of your programs or organization.

Unfortunately, while more funders and constituents expect you to be evaluating your programs, it can be challenging to ask the right questions, gather the data, and analyze the results. But that doesn’t mean it’s out of reach for small and medium-sized nonprofits to do so. Having a solid understanding of the process is an essential first step.

That’s where Idealware can help. In The Program Data for Information and Transformation Toolkit, we will start presenting this complete look at how data can inform your organization by showing you where you can find important organizational data, and where you should store it. We’ll continue with a discussion around how you should think about, measure, and present data to others. Finally, we’ll share how data can inform your decision-making process.

Throughout the course, we’ll explore how real organizations are using their data, and provide ample opportunities—both during class and our weekly office hours—to talk through how this applies to your own organization.

June 18: Analyzing Your Data
What do you do with all that newly harvested data? How do you take those piles of raw data and make sense of it all? In this class, we’ll break down the strategies you can use to analyze data, and what it can teach your organization.