As the leaderof a small or midsized social mission organization,you’ve probably seen how difficult it can be to collect meaningful data that proves you’re making an impact.Impact measurement can feel overwhelming – somany experts provide recommendations, all using different jargon. It’s especially hard to know what to-do’s will be most impactful to your team right now, and are appropriate for an organization of your size and ambition.
In this virtual workshop, we willbegin by completing a short data fitness assessment. This assessment (based off of a number of peer-reviewed tools and Coeffect’s work with 50+ nonprofits) will help you understand your organization’s strengths and weaknesses in collecting data to understand your impact.
With these results in hand, we will discuss how organization’s data practices tend to evolve over time, and what kinds of projects your team can choose to take on to move your data practice forward.
Data Roadmap Template
Paul Collier is the founder of Coeffect, a consulting firm that works with nonprofit executives and founders of social enterprises to leverage data to make a greater impact. Since 2016 Coeffect has consulted with over 40 for-impact clients across Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. Paul has also led trainings around impact measurement strategy for hundreds of nonprofit professionals through the Colorado Nonprofit Association, Nonprofit Learning Lab, and Social Venture Partners Denver. Prior to Coeffect, Paul served as the Data and Evaluation Manager at Safe & Sound, a leading family resource center developing a data-informed model to help families raise thriving kids. He also worked for Protiviti, an international consulting firm providing internal audit services to Fortune 500 clients.