The number 1 nonprofit metric for impact

I think we can all agree that metrics matter and that we must be measuring the effectiveness of our programs if we want to demonstrate impact… if you know me at all I believe it is our duty as people running nonprofits to demonstrate our impact. You don’t get the luxury of taking the public’s money to offer a public good without proving that you actually do what you say you do. If you have a mission…which if you’re a nonprofit you do…then you need to be able to measure in quantifiable terms how successful you’re being in accomplishing that mission. But I know we get overwhelmed by deciding what to measure, how to track it, and nonprofits find themselves often floating in a sea of data that may or may not be all that meaningful. So today I am talking to you about really the only metric you should care about and how you can measure it