Investing in making impact: Including reasons for investing, and what it really takes to create, demonstrate, and leverage impact
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What do we need from our Board and how do we communicate all this impact-stuff to them
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Return on Investment - how to think about (and measure!) your impact on people's lives
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What it means to build a strengths-based, curious culture for your staff and Board
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How to ask questions data can answer -and- How to ask questions of your data
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Strategies for building staff buy-in: Including what is needed from leadership, how to focus, how to fold data collection into your workflow, and investing in data systems (or not!)
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Creating a data team/committee: Including why have one, who should be on it, how to run it, and how to turn out results.
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Strategic Impact Map: What is it, why have one, how to create one
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Up-close: Creating Mission-Driven Goal statements to create focus and clarity
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Accessing and mining public health data (and why do it anyway)
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Gathering need data yourself: Ins and outs of needs and strengths assessments
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Finding and using evidence to defend the use of your programming, and what to do if there isn’t an evidence-based practice to fit your needs (bonus: creating an impact statement)
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The importance of providing services with "fidelity to the model," and what the heck does that mean anyway?!?
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Identifying and measuring resources (aka organizational vitality)
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Essential productivity data – what it is and why it's important
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Essential impact data – how it's defined, how and when to measure it, and why it's critical
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Long-term impact – what it is, why it's important, and why you should invest very little in it
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What impact and collective means for collaborations, collectives, and multisector initiatives
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Creating excellent surveys (and why self-report is totally the right way to go)
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Gathering and using stories from clients
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Knowing when you need a custom database, an out-of-the-box database, or just Excel
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Strategies for collecting and entering impact data (bonus: how much is enough)
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Basics of data analysis (whew! you DON’T need statistics!)
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Allowing creating and demonstrating impact to be a process that evolves over time and with changing priorities
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Using data to support diversity, equity, and inclusion - do no harm
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Essentials of data visualization: Essential rules, resources, and on-line courses
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Communicating impact: dashboards, one-pagers, full reports
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Communicating impact stories to leverage friends and funds
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Strategic Planning – how does impact data inform it and what's the different from data-driven decision making
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Grant WRITING - how to respond to RFPs in ways that communicate how your programming is directly related to the immediate and long-term impact you seek to achieve
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Grant MAKING - how to design RFPs, as well as application and reporting processes that capture the information you need to demonstrate the value of your investments
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