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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

The MatrixFiles

Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters. One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics. Most associations said not yet, but after the webinar, they are planning to start discussions with their Boards and staff.

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Impact to Story: How to Explain Non-Profit Impact Through Storytelling

The Storytelling Non-profit

Considering the outcome or impact metrics, what do those metrics mean for constituents long-term? What new journey or chapter begins in their life? What does it mean for a (person/community/place) to benefit from this (program/service/project)? When someone completes a (program/service), what becomes available to them?

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Program Management Statistics: 12 Stats and How to Use Them

Get Fully Funded

By collecting essential metrics as part of your program management process, you’ll be able to use this information to: Identify program gaps and areas of need. Using predefined metrics can be incredibly valuable for determining how well your nonprofit has been meeting the needs of your constituents and where you can adjust for greater impact.

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How To Achieve Constant Learning By Breaking Free From Chronic Performance

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Setting up systems and habits : Often, we set up systems for the Performance Zone, such as weekly meetings with a set agenda or dashboards with key metrics. Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews? These are great, but are we also setting up systems and habits for the Learning Zone?

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. Chapters report data to the headquarters which enables the organization to move resources quickly to where they are needed most. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics.

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Fundraising Apps: 25+ Tools To Help Your Org Raise More

Bloomerang

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. Trello — Top Fundraising App for Project Management Nonprofits are frequently planning projects. This is achieved with features such as: Chapter billing and dues collection.

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