"Data-Driven Decision-Making" Program Followup

Thanks to ARCHS Wendell Kimbrough and Steven Brawley for their excellent and helpful presentation about collecting and managing data for nonprofits last Wednesday. For attendees or others interested in more information about some of the topics they covered, we recommend the following books from SLPL:

• Balanced Scorecard, Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies by Paul R. Niven
• Nonprofit Dashboard, A Tool for Tracking Progress by Lawrence M.Butler
• Benchmarking in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors by Patricia Keehley & eil Abercrombie
• Benchmarking for Nonprofits How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance by Jason Saul
• Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide by Paige Teegarden, Denice Hinden & Paul Sturm
• Developing a Learning Culture in Nonprofit Organizations by Stephen J. Gill.
  
   
  +++ For anyone who missed our session, The Foundation Center will offer a webinar on Using Data for Improvement (Otherwise There's No Point in Collecting It!) Oct. 29,  from 1- 2:30 pm (CST), $95 per enrollee. It's the last of a 4-part October webinar series: Outcome Thinking and Management.  Go to http://marketplace.foundationcenter.org/training/webinar for more info and to sign up.   
  

More Help with Demographics

If you attended (or wanted to)  government librarian Bill Olbrich's overview of Finding Census Data for Nonprofit Grant Writers here Monday you might also  be interested in checking out a book that just arrived here in the Social Sciences Room: Demographics of the U.S. Trends and Projections, 4th ed, by Cheryl Russell. (New Strategists, 2012) sifts and organizes data from government and other internet data sites and publications. Russell provides year-by-year figures and insights for analyzing and projecting trends in U.S. attitudes and behaviors,  education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending and wealth.  Particularly if you're a beginner at turning data into an effecive statement of need, you may find this "big picture" view helpful. Request a copy through the SLPL catalog.