Gathering Meaningful Data: From Collection to Confident Decision-Making

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Description

This training will build your knowledge and confidence in using data as a tool to improve programs, understand needs, showcase successes, and meet reporting requirements. We’ll explore ways that data are generated and then transformed into information, knowledge, and finally wise action. We will explore how to choose the best approach when seeking insight. We’ll also talk about the central role of people and power in gathering, understanding, and using data. Using interactive group activities and examples you will have a chance to practice and strengthen your data collection and evaluation muscles.

Learning Outcomes — Participants will:

• Feel more confident gathering, interpreting, and sharing data.
• Have an expanded toolbox of systematic tactics for gathering feedback about audience needs and/or programmatic impact
• Know how to plan their data gathering and analytic strategies to answer key questions and/or make their case for support via data.
• Gain a better understanding of the role of people and relationships have in the data collection process.

Audience: This workshop is targeted at nonprofit executive directors, program directors / / managers / coordinators, development staff, board members, and foundation program managers.

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