Measuring and Understanding Your Impact – Identifying Your Measures
While facing increasing scrutiny and needing greater efficiency, nonprofits must continue to provide high quality services that resonate with community goals. Our June Pursuing Your Mission session focuses on “Measuring and Understanding Your Impact—Identifying Your Measures,” providing you with practical tools to assess your organization’s effectiveness.
Why This Matters: Organizations that effectively measure and communicate their results can make informed decisions about improving program reach, efficiency, and impact; they may also experience greater donor confidence and more successful grant applications.
You’ll Learn How To:
- Distinguish between outputs, outcomes, and impact
- Identify the right metrics aligned with your mission
- Develop practical data collection strategies
- Create compelling narratives for different audiences
- Streamline measurement processes with limited resources
Who Should Attend: This session is perfect for nonprofit leaders, program directors, development staff, and board members who want to strengthen their organization’s ability to tell their impact story effectively.
Details and Registration
Thursday, June 12 | 6:30 PM ET
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Lisa-Nicolle (Nicky) Grist is a native New Yorker who has worked exclusively in the nonprofit and government sectors. At the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund since 2014, she has led a variety of learning and evaluation efforts while overseeing the organization’s finances. She has created and presented logic model workshops for Nonprofit New York, Washington Asset Builders, and the National Urban League, where she previously worked as senior director of evaluation. Before finding her passion as an evaluator, Nicky served as an executive director for 14 years: first of a neighborhood housing counseling agency; then of a national social policy advocacy organization. She also worked in housing development and community organizing, sat on several boards of directors, and volunteered in direct service. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), a master’s from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an executive certificate from Harvard’s Kennedy School. |
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Matthew Klein ’93, LAW ’98
Chief Program and Impact Officer, Robin Hood
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Matt leads the alignment of Robin Hood’s programmatic and public policy teams, overseeing organization-wide goals, metrics, and impact. Matt brings extensive experience in nonprofit, philanthropic, government, and civic leadership to Robin Hood.
Previously, Matt led the New York City Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and served as the Executive Director of Blue Ridge Foundation New York, a philanthropic fund that later merged with Robin Hood as Blue Ridge Labs. Matt has served on numerous civic and nonprofit boards, including those of Robin Hood’s grantees, and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including from Echoing Green, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Results for America. Matt has a B.A. in History and a J.D. from Yale University and Yale Law School, respectively. |
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About the Pursuing Your Mission Series
Join YANA for a series of in-depth conversations inspired by the 2024 YANA Social Impact conference and feedback from the YANA network. These one-hour online discussions will connect you with YANA network experts to answer questions and engage in conversation about topics relevant to running and governing nonprofits during uncertain times.
When: Every Second Thursday of the Month at 6:30pm ET
Where: Zoom
Format: Expert-led discussion with Q&A and networking opportunities
