What we do.Every impact dashboard has three services under the hood: metrics, benchmarks, and scope of impact.
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Features
Metrics
We work with your existing data to arrive at a metric that encapsulates your progress toward achieving the organization's mission.
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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.
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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.
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ReproducibleOur approach makes comparisons of objective data to widely available benchmark data. No hidden assumptions, no fancy math.
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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. |