Measuring Your Mission - Using Data to Track Organizational Health and Success
Channel: NTEN Video
Date: 2012-09-19

Filmed at the NTEN Nonprofits & Data Summit in Boston, MA, on 9/12/12. 
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As a leader of your organization, you'd probably like to see clear metrics to track your programs, outreach efforts, and the financial health of your organization. It can be daunting to define the right measures though -- where do you even start? Based on NTEN's and Idealware's research into what's actually working for nonprofits, we'll talk through what you should think about to define your own data-based metrics strategy, and hear from other organizations who are working to implement their own strategies. This session will help you: Understand what it means to use data to measure organizational health and success Learn what types of metrics tend to be useful for what types of things Identify the next steps in creating your own metrics strategy

Andrea Berry

As Idealware's Director of Partnerships and Learning, Andrea oversees the organization's fundraising and training activities including sponsorship, corporate and individual giving, online seminars and live presentations. A co-author of both the Idealware Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide and the Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management System, and the creator of over 100 hours of curriculum, Andrea has worked with nonprofits of all sizes to help them answer mission-centric technology questions including tough questions about how to effectively use data to evaluate organizational success. Prior to joining Idealware, Andrea held fundraising positions in education, health research and museums and has taught math, performing arts and history in traditional and non-traditional educational settings.