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Data is just bits and bytes. Understanding your data and using it to empower your organization’s work to make better decisions and communicate your work towards your mission is essential. To make data truly valuable, it has to be transformed into information, knowledge, and into understanding of performance and impact. 

In this webinar, we’ll dive into how data can be used for performance measurement, knowledge sharing, and showing impact.  Using examples from the salesforce.com platform but that can be applicable to your data management system, we'll dive into these focus areas: 

• Performance Management: Most have heard the management cliche “if you can’t measure it, you can neither manage nor improve it.” We’ll show nonprofit examples of how to both measure and manage through performance dashboards, reports, and analytics. 
• Knowledge: Data can become knowledge when it is quickly found, easily shared, used effectively, and connected to people and networks. Cloud computing provides new methods of connecting the concepts of ‘implicit’ and ‘explicit’ knowledge into really useful knowledge.
• Outcomes and Social Impact: Donors, investors, constituents, and partners all want to know: what is the impact of the work you do? Data informs inputs, activities, outputs and outcomes, and we’ll show how nonprofits report outcomes and impact to funders and other stakeholders.

In this webinar, participants will learn: 

• How nonprofits can use technology to both measure and manage through performance dashboards, reports, and analytics.
• An understanding of how data can inform and educate your programs.
• An understanding of how nonprofits report outcomes and impact to funders and other stakeholders.

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About the Presenter

Rem Hoffmann

As President and CEO of Exponent Partners, Rem strives to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of nonprofit organizations by optimizing their operations and supporting their business processes with technology. After more than ten years of working with corporations and government, Rem founded Exponent Partners to bring the best tools of the commercial world to the nonprofit sector.

Prior to founding Exponent Partners, Rem built and led a 150-person IT services team in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he designed, marketed, and operated large-scale IT outsourcing programs for government and commercial clients, including the United States Postal Service and Time Warner. Before that, as an independent consultant, Rem served leading nonprofits including CompuMentor and CompassPoint, as well as commercial technology firms including Intuit, Qwest, Wang Global, and Exodus Communications.

As an extension of Rem’s vision for creating a stronger social sector community, he serves on the board of the Center for What Works. In his spare time, Rem shares his love for sailing and cycling with his young son, who seems more interested in trains, trucks, and all things mechanical. They often compromise by playing with Legos.

Rem earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland at College Park.

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