It is important to measure and evaluate your program to understand what is working well and what can be improved. Your program should have clear goals that you developed during the planning stage, and these will guide your evaluation. In this section you will learn how to consistently evaluate your activities and learn strategies for making this work easier and more effective.
• Global Metrics: A set of standardized metrics for grants reporting.
"Global metrics" are a set of core metrics designed to provide a standardized way of tracking a few key measures of progress towards strategic goals for content and participation.
After two years of observing the goals and measures of various grants projects and voluntary reporting, although these measures have been calculated inconsistently across projects, these metrics have risen to the surface as the most useful commonly used indicators. Beginning September 2014 an initial set of global metrics became a requirement of all grantees to begin looking systematically at the work being done through grants.
Calculating Global Metrics: A set of learning patterns that share each of the global metrics based on their standardized metric definitions and explains tools you can use to calculate them.
• Learn more about reporting and storytelling strategies.
Evaluation is not just about the numbers. We want this data to have a meaning for you. What do these numbers mean? What metrics are meaningful to you, in your particular context? Bring further the story you want to tell everyone about your program. Here you'll find a few key points on good storytelling practices.
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