Nonprofit Skills®: Measuring Results

Nonprofit Skills®: Measuring Results addresses how to construct and implement an evaluation framework to measure the results of a nonprofit's strategic plan. It also includes important metrics for measuring programs and organizational efficiency outside the strategic plan framework. The course includes how to choose KPIs, when to hire an outside evaluator, sources of data, measurement techniques, and how small nonprofits can benefit from measurement.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain how to develop and implement an evaluation framework

• Choose appropriate outcomes and indicators to measure the impact of your nonprofit's programming

• Choose appropriate key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the success of your organization's strategy

• Explain how a theory of change informs a nonprofit's measurements

• Describe how a small nonprofit can use measurement to improve

• Describe the Common Outcomes Framework in relation to your organization's programming

• List different data collection tools used to measure results, and describe best practices for analyzing and interpreting data

• Decide whether your nonprofit should use an external evaluator

Credits

• ATD CI Credits: 3

• CFRE Credits: 3

• HRCI Credits: 3

• SHRM Credits: 3

• IACET CEU Credits: 0.3