What we do.

Every impact dashboard has three services under the hood: metrics, benchmarks, and scope of impact.

Features

Metrics

We work with your existing data to arrive at a metric that encapsulates your progress toward achieving the organization's mission.

Benchmarks

We recommend benchmarks for your impact metric from publicly available, third-party data sources.

Your dashboard shows how your program stacks up in the context of that benchmark.

Scale

Every organization works at a different scale. The impact dashboard also communicates how many people the organization has reached, compared to the population in need.

Design Values

Simple

Our approach focuses on simple metrics that are of interest to everyone. We encourage organizations to choose metrics that are well-defined and well-studied. Your audience won't need to read a technical paper to understand the results.

Reproducible

Our approach makes comparisons of objective data to widely available benchmark data. No hidden assumptions, no fancy math.

In Context

The essence of a good dashboard is to put impact numbers in context. That means every number has a unit of measure. Every quantity has a benchmark. If possible, we provide both the current value and the rate of change of key metrics. Tufte would be proud.

The dashboard is not meant to conduct all the analysis for a skeptical investor. It puts the same critical metrics in front of all stakeholders,  to open the conversation.