Product Details
Topics Covered
- The role of the board
- Outputs, outcomes, and impact
- Process/implementation analysis
- Performance management
- Key performance indicators
- SMART objectives
- Data collection methods
- Common outcomes
- Internal vs. external evaluation
- Funding for measurement and evaluation
- Communicating results internally
- Communicating results to funders
Key Features
- Mobile-friendly
- Audio-enabled
- Badge and credit-awarding
- Real-world case studies
- Fully accessible
- Games & Flashcards
- Expert-supported
- Video content
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Course Description
This course, aimed at nonprofit board members, is designed to help them understand and oversee the process for measuring nonprofit progress and performance. Self-paced and highly interactive, the course shows learners how to set appropriate organizational goals and how to use key performance indicators to measure the organization's progress. It details different ways of gathering information and analyzing data to measure desired outcomes, and
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the role of the board in measuring organizational progress
- List some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that board members use to assess their organizations
- Choose appropriate outcomes and indicators to measure the impact of your nonprofit's programming
- Decide whether your nonprofit should use an external evaluator
- Apply the Common Outcome Framework to you organization's programming, using appropriate data-collection strategies to assess progress
- Assess whether your organization can qualify for evidence-based funding, including the Pay for Success model
- Explain how board members can monitor and assess their own progress
- Explain ways that nonprofit boards communicate progress with stakeholders
Notes
This course has an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.
As an Accredited Provider, MindEdge offers for its learning events that comply with the Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.
