About this event
Dates
Wednesdays, June 28 – July 19
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (Pacific Time)
Cost
$95 NAO Members
$120 Nonmembers
NAO Members get a discount on this webinar series by using the discount code on the Members Only Page. You must be logged in to view this page.
Produced in Partnership with Idealware
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About the Series
Registration includes an invitation to join the live broadcast of each webinar, and a recorded version with downloadable PowerPoint slides that participants can view at their convenience.
The term “big data” gets used (and misused) a lot, making it seem scary and expensive. But bigger isn’t always better. Gathering the right data—and knowing how to use it—is what matters. Join us for Nonprofit Data for Beginners, a three-week course designed to help you ask the right questions, find the data you need, and use your data to strengthen your organization.
Throughout the course, you will:
- Consider what questions you need your data to answer.
- Learn how to define your goals and develop processes for collecting your data.
- Explore the many places where you can find useful data.
- Learn how to manage your metrics and data so that they remain useful over the long term.
- Dive into case studies of real organizations using data to make decisions.
Schedule
June 28: Asking the Right Questions
Simply collecting data is not enough. Deciding early on what you will do with that data—and why you want it in the first place—will help you to define goals and approaches. We'll talk through how to define your organization’s own data-based metrics strategy from the ground up.
July 12: Hunting Down the Data
More often than not, the most useful data won’t be found already neatly laid out in a spreadsheet. You might find extremely valuable data in handwritten staff notes, in multiple software systems, or public repositories. We’ll discuss where different data can live, which sources of data might be useful, and where and how you can collect it to be ready for analysis.
July 19: Making Use of Your Data
In the final session, we will discuss the various ways you will need to manage and use the data you’ve collected. We’ll consider the logistics of entering, storing, and maintaining your data. We’ll also look at how to develop an action plan that ensures your data program is useful and sustainable.