Monitoring, evaluation & learning
Impact assessment and reporting for nonprofits
When a funder asks 'what was your impact?', you can only provide a list of activities you completed.
What you'll achieve
We provide technical support to conduct rigorous impact assessments and produce compelling impact reports for stakeholders. This helps you to credibly communicate the value of your work and secure ongoing support.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Define the most appropriate assessment approach, gather and analyse evidence from your programmes, and turn the findings into reporting products that are credible, clear, and useful to funders and other stakeholders.
Key deliverables
- Impact assessment framework, data collection and analysis plan, findings summary, impact report or deck, recommendations for future measurement.
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Data visualisation for impact reporting
“You have the data but it sits in spreadsheets — your reports are walls of text and numbers that fail to communicate what you have actually achieved.”See project
Knowledge management system design
“When a key person leaves, everything they know about projects, funders, and relationships walks out the door with them.”See project
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Impact storytelling for fundraising & comms
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Board reporting, data and information
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
- 7.5C100
Building a Performance Measurement System
A short book from Root Cause that sets out a 5-step process for creating or improving a performance measurement system in a nonprofit. It covers choosing what to measure, building dashboards and involving managers, staff and board members in using the data. It also introduces performance measurement in general and the problems specific to nonprofits. Appendices include dashboard templates and a performance audit.
Start hereClassicKey manual or guideFree - 7.5C099
A Practical Guide to Measuring and Managing Impact
A guide from EVPA for venture philanthropy funders, social investors and the organisations they support on putting impact measurement into practice. It was launched in 2013 and updated in 2015, and gives practical tips for each of 5 steps in the impact measurement process. Funders use it to agree impact measures with the organisations they back and to build measurement into their investment process.
ClassicKey manual or guideFree