Tips & Tools for Mission Impact

Standards for Excellence (Members Only – requires account login)

• Program Evaluation 

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How to Identify an Outcome

• Click Here: DANA Outcomes Measurement Worksheet

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Communicating Impact

• Read: GrantSpace’s How to Market Your Impact

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Measuring Outcomes Without Data – The Rubric Method

• Read: David Grant’s The Social Profit Handbook – offers detailed guidance!
• Review: The Social Profit Handbook – summary

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DANA, through a partnership with Public Health Management Corporation, is now able to offer nonprofits resources and tools to measure and evaluate outcomes. What does this mean for you? You can use these tools to improve your outcome evaluation techniques, which will ultimately help your organization communicate the results of their programs and services and the impact they are having in the community.

This tools and resources are made available to all nonprofit professionals at no cost by the Longwood Foundation.

As part of this offering, you will receive:

• Program Overview Video (January 28, 2021)

Resources, Tools, and Tip Sheets:

• Demystifying Outcome Measurement (Video)
• How to Excel at Excel (Video)
• Data Management in Excel (Video)
• Examples of Evaluation Terms
• Measuring Your Outcomes
• Asking Demographic Questions
• Keeping Participants’ Identity and Evaluation Data Safe
• Making Sense of Your Qualitative Data

After each using each resource, please fill out this brief survey assessment of the specific tool. We are always looking to deliver high quality resources that are valuable and useful to you. Survey Assessment for Each Tool Listed Above – click here.

Additionally, two assessment tools will be made available to you:

• Personal Capacity to Measure Outcomes Tool
  • Please fill out this survey about the usefulness of this tool here.

• Organizational Capacity to Measure Outcomes Tool
  • Please fill out this survey about the usefulness of this tool here.

If you should need additional guidance or help implementing these tools at your organization, DANA is here to help. Please call Todd Pipkin, Vice President, Leadership & Learning at [email protected]  or 302-777-5500.

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Nonprofit Sustainability Mindset: Mapping Mission Impact with Financial Resources

• Read: The Sustainability Mindset by Steve Zimmerman & Jeanne Bell
• Download: The Nonprofit Sustainability Mindset Templates

Need a coach to assist your organization in identifying, measuring, tracking, and communicating outcomes to your nonprofit stakeholders?

Contact Todd Pipkin by clicking here.