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Getting the Big Picture: Using Dashboards to track your data

Getting the Big Picture: Using Dashboards to track your data. agenda. Top Three Takeaways for Session: 1. Learn what a dashboard is 2. Understand what kind of data to track on a dashboard 3. Review best practices and how to develop a dashboard Session Outline:

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Getting the Big Picture: Using Dashboards to track your data

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  1. Getting the Big Picture: Using Dashboards to track your data

  2. agenda Top Three Takeaways for Session: • 1. Learn what a dashboard is • 2. Understand what kind of data to track on a dashboard • 3. Review best practices and how to develop a dashboard Session Outline: • Intros of speakers (5 minutes) • Orientation to Dashboards (25 minutes) • Hands-on Exercise – Break into 2 or 3 small groups. Each group will be given a scenario around a nonprofit organization and be asked to design a dashboard – (30 minutes) • Show & Tell – share ideas and discuss (30 minutes)

  3. what is a dashboard? • visual tool • graphics • performance measures • at-a-glance

  4. why should I care? • why do you care? • Effective tool for Board members & senior management • Forces focus on what's important • Efficient analysis

  5. what data should I track? • relevant to the audience • Board members and senior leadership • Program leaders • Advoacy • Development • Donor • tells the story • timely

  6. what is a dashboard?

  7. Unfortunately, I was not able to get permission to distribute the dashboard samples I showed in the session. However, you can find plenty of examples within the Resources listed on the last slide. let’s look at some examples…

  8. best practices “Data-ink ratio” is a concept defined by Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

  9. resources • Chronicle of Philanthropy article about Kaboom www.philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i01/01mg0601.htm • Results Accountability Implementation Guidewww.raguide.org • Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Measure, Manage, and Improve PerformanceJason Saul, Fieldstone Alliance, 2004 • Information Dashboard Design,The Effective Visual Communication of DataSteven Few, O'Reilly, 2006 • The Nonprofit Dashboard, A Tool for Tracking ProgressLawrence M. Butler, BoardSource, 2007 • The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationEdward Tufte, Graphics Press, 2001 • State of Maryland's dashboard: http://mdreportcard.org • Dashboards by Example: www.enterprise-dashboard.com

  10. We spent the rest of the session breaking into teams to build dashboards for a series of imaginary nonprofits. let’s build one…

  11. Presenters: Lynn Labieniec, CEOBeaconfire Consultinglynn.labieniec@beaconfire.com Rusty Burwell, VP Data & TechnologyAmerican Lung Associationrburwell@lungusa.org

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