This worksheet and instructions can help you identify ways in which visualizing data can optimize your organization’s strategic objectives and engage internal and external stakeholders. Set and prioritize short- and long-term goals for what you want to communicate with data and to whom.

The Infogram team collected information on various chart types and combined the knowledge into a comprehensive guide of what to do and what not to do when creating charts.

This framework should serve as a starting point as practitioners work toward including DEI in their evidence building goals.

Diversity means different things to different people – and can be dynamic based on the circumstances. This Harvard Business Review article offers an expansive picture of diversity and inclusion and provides an interesting framework to consider when defining a diversity strategy.

Reflections on Bryan Stevenson’s keynote address from the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, offering insights on working towards equity.

Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community offers tools for self assessment of performance practice to help nonprofits and their funders drive organizational performance improvement.

The notion that decisions about design, implementation, and funding of policies and social programs should be based on scientific evidence of effectiveness – continues to garner support among policymakers from both sides of the aisle.

With the Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT!), from Bolder Advocacy, nonprofits can benchmark their advocacy skills, identify specific gaps and opportunities in their advocacy strategies, determine how they want to strengthen their advocacy, and efficiently focus resources to get the best results.

Nonprofit Resiliency Committee (NRC) offers recommendations on how government and the nonprofit sector can work together to design City services and achieve maximum impact.

This inventory provides a framework for thinking about the choices available to an agency, ministry or organisation that wants to experiment.

By approaching evidence building as an ongoing process instead of the all-too-common "one study at a time" approach, practitioners avoid delayed findings and constrained adaptations.

This insightful post by Jonathan Levene gives practitioners the tools they need to cut through the clutter and get down to business.

Evaluation should serve as the research and development component of nonprofit organizations, continually testing and improving services delivered to achieve greater benefit for the clients served.

Data Orchard's online tool is designed for social service organizations to provide program design, data analysis and implement measurement and monitoring systems to improve processes.

While the upside is clear, externally led/managed projects can present challenges. Learn how to transition smoothly and avoid pitfalls.

A driver diagram illustrates a Theory of Change and can be used to plan improvement project activities. This technique provides a way of systematically laying out aspects of an improvement project so they can be discussed and agreed on collaboratively by the project team.

A case study of collective impact using a Theory of Change, created by Building Bright Futures, a child services organization in Vermont.

The Center for Theory of Change provides a solid definition of the Theory of Change and its critical importance to evidence gathering.