Comments on: What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/ How Networked Nonprofits Leverage Networks and Data for Social Change Fri, 24 May 2013 20:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: 10 Great Social Innovation Reads: October 2012 | Social Velocity http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-53809 10 Great Social Innovation Reads: October 2012 | Social Velocity Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:48:34 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-53809 [...] ultimate question, “Will funders pay for measurement?”. Beth Kanter asks the question What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? and Mario Morino (author of Leap of Reason) weighs in.  And Phil Buchanan, CEO of the Center for [...] [...] ultimate question, “Will funders pay for measurement?”. Beth Kanter asks the question What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? and Mario Morino (author of Leap of Reason) weighs in.  And Phil Buchanan, CEO of the Center for [...]

]]> By: Social metrics are not for the funders | CISED http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-53671 Social metrics are not for the funders | CISED Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:13:12 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-53671 [...] Kanter, who writes a well respected non profit blog summarizes it clearly: Our organization has to collect a lot of data, mostly counting data for our [...] [...] Kanter, who writes a well respected non profit blog summarizes it clearly: Our organization has to collect a lot of data, mostly counting data for our [...]

]]> By: Friday, October 19, 2012 | Charity Spring Patch Digest http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-52879 Friday, October 19, 2012 | Charity Spring Patch Digest Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:55:18 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-52879 [...] What is the donor’s role in supporting good measurement? [...] [...] What is the donor’s role in supporting good measurement? [...]

]]> By: What is the Funder's Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Social innovation for nonprofits | Scoop.it http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-52843 What is the Funder's Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Social innovation for nonprofits | Scoop.it Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:23:06 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-52843 [...] Meet  Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, "Data Scientist," and are on staff at DoSomething.Org.  [...] [...] Meet  Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, "Data Scientist," and are on staff at DoSomething.Org.  [...]

]]> By: What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Beth’s Blog « Cannonball Charity Communications http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-52826 What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Beth’s Blog « Cannonball Charity Communications Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:42:59 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-52826 [...] What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Beth’s Blog. [...] [...] What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Beth’s Blog. [...]

]]> By: What is the Funder's Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Social Good Brazil | Scoop.it http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-52799 What is the Funder's Role in Supporting Good Measurement? | Social Good Brazil | Scoop.it Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:33:25 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-52799 By: Tony Goodrow http://www.bethkanter.org/funderrole/comment-page-1/#comment-52759 Tony Goodrow Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:00:25 +0000 http://www.bethkanter.org/?p=6411#comment-52759 Sadly, some funders are currently playing the role of supporting BAD measurement. Some funders ask for reports showing the number of volunteer hours and more is always consider better. This creates pressure on managers of volunteers to increase the number of hours volunteered continually, without a correlated look at what outputs are generated with those hours. "How many hours did we get from volunteers?" is the wrong question, but sadly, it's the one on which the sector is currently focused. The right question is "What is the relationship between the number of hours of volunteer time that we consumed related to the value of what we accomplished?". More on this can be found on a recent NTEN.org blog at http://bit.ly/ROI-NTEN (Data Will Always Give You the Wrong Answer When You Ask the Wrong Question) Sadly, some funders are currently playing the role of supporting BAD measurement.

Some funders ask for reports showing the number of volunteer hours and more is always consider better. This creates pressure on managers of volunteers to increase the number of hours volunteered continually, without a correlated look at what outputs are generated with those hours.

“How many hours did we get from volunteers?” is the wrong question, but sadly, it’s the one on which the sector is currently focused. The right question is “What is the relationship between the number of hours of volunteer time that we consumed related to the value of what we accomplished?”.

More on this can be found on a recent NTEN.org blog at http://bit.ly/ROI-NTEN (Data Will Always Give You the Wrong Answer When You Ask the Wrong Question)

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