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Data can and should be used to help your organization make smarter decisions about the work you do now and to shape the way you work in the future. As more data becomes available to us and the tools to understand it all become more user-friendly, nonprofits have an opportunity - even a duty - to use data to gain a more robust understanding of our work, the communities in which we work, and the impact we're making.

Our upcoming webinar series, “Nonprofits & Data: Becoming a Data-Driven Organization”, will help nonprofits understand how to collect and use their data successfully. Thanks to the generous support of Google, we’re able to offer it to you for free.

> Space is limited. RSVP today for this free 3-part webinar series!

You may register for one or all sessions in the series. The information presented in each session is independent of the others.

Series Session Include:

• November 11: Defining Data: When Data is Everywhere, Where do You Start?

Data visualizations, open data, aggregation, infographics, data stories... It seems we're all supposed to be doing amazing things with our data these days. But getting there still seems hard.

In this session we'll start at the beginning by defining data. We'll explore the many different types of data that your organization likely consumes and produces - from financial data to program data to issue research data. We'll learn how different types of data are, can, and should be used differently to support your organizational goals.

In this webinar, participants will learn

- The main types of data you should be paying attention to in your organization

- Strategies for making the best use of your organization’s data

- Examples from other organizations making great use of different types of data

• November 17: Transforming Data into Knowledge: Measuring Performance, Outcomes, and Social Impact

Data is just bits and bytes. To make it truly valuable, it has to be transformed into information, knowledge, and into understanding of performance and impact. Data can become knowledge when it is quickly found, easily shared, used effectively, and connected to people and networks.

Donors, investors, constituents, and partners all want to know: what is the impact of the work you do?  In this webinar, we’ll explore how data can inform your inputs, outputs, and outcomes, and help you manage and improve your activities and programs. We’ll also touch briefly on how cloud computing provides new methods of connecting the concepts of ‘implicit’ and ‘explicit’ knowledge into really useful knowledge.

In this webinar, participants will gain

- An understanding of how data can inform your programs and operations

- Examples of how nonprofits use technology to both measure and manage through performance dashboards, reports, and analytics

- An understanding of how nonprofits report outcomes and impact to funders and other stakeholders

• December 1: Data Visualization: Tools and Tactics

How can I visualize data so that I can make use of it? In this webinar we’ll check out free visualization tools and use data from our workshop participants to start learning how data can inform changes in our organizations and programs. Early registrants will be provided a template which they can use to prepare some of their own data to use during the workshop section of the webinar.

In this webinar, we will learn 

- How to visualize data to help you meet the needs of your audience/users/clients

- Quick ways to make change happen in your organization and for your audience

- Free easy-to-use tools for beginners (like Google's Visualization API), how to use them to make a working visualization of your own open data

Event Materials

November 11 - Defining Data: When Data is Everywhere, Where Do You Start?

November 17 - Transforming Data into Knowledge: Measuring Performance, Outcomes, and Social Impact

December 1 - Data Visualization: Tools and Tactics