Connecticut!
The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to low-income immigrant Catholics, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and Catholic public policy positions, and defending Roman Catholicism in various nations.
DC!
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a catalyst for action on the environment — and much more. Through its strategic investments, the GEF works with partners to tackle the planet’s biggest environmental issues. Our funding also helps reduce poverty, strengthen governance and achieve greater equality between women and men. As such, the GEF occupies a unique space in the global partnership for a more sustainable planet.
I’ve worked with the GEF since December 2015, providing custom workshops, onsite consultations, and design services. We’ve worked on a variety of publications together, including their recent Corporate Scorecard. This September, I’m providing one-on-one consultations and data visualization design with staff for four days in their office.
Michigan!
The Michigan Association for Evaluation is an affiliate of the American Evaluation Association.
I’m teaching an intermediate/advanced workshop on designing dashboards and infographics.
Are you responsible for sharing data with your fellow nonprofit teammates? Do you need to display grantmaking data for your funders? If so, this crash course in data visualization is for you! Visualizing data in graphs helps you deliver bite-sized information that viewers can understand at a glance and retain for the long run. In this workshop, you’ll learn a step-by-step design process that you can apply to your own projects. First, we’ll discuss how to match your visualization to your viewer’s information needs and interests. Then you’ll get an introduction to chart choosing skills, such as how to swap out your overused pie charts and bar charts for options like slope charts, tree maps, social network maps, or dot maps. The next step in the design process is selecting the correct tool for the job. We’ll talk about the pros and cons of Excel, Tableau, and R for data visualization. Finally, we’ll conclude with best practices for formatting your charts, like summarizing your takeaway messages in the title, removing chart clutter so that viewers’ attention is focused on your data, and ensuring that your color scheme matches your nonprofit’s branding.
This online workshop is interactive; materials for hands-on-practice in Excel will be shared with registrants a few days before the workshop.
Organized by GrantStation, open to all! Register.
DC!
I’m keynoting the Urban Institute’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative conference.
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the Department of Justice. JRI is a data-driven approach to criminal justice reform and, to date, 30 states have participated, examining their corrections and related criminal justice spending, managing populations in a more cost-effective manner, and reinvesting resulting savings in proven and promising public safety strategies.
DC!
The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) is a tool in the U.S. Government’s Foreign Assistance toolkit. USADF is on the frontier of development, working directly with Africans on the ground to combat some of Africa’s most difficult development and foreign policy challenges with programs to increase the U.S. diplomatic and development presence in the hardest to reach areas of extreme poverty. The Agency effectively works with the most vulnerable in communities – having successfully created development models for communities in fragile and post-conflict countries, ethnic and religious minorities, youth, the disabled, and nomadic populations. USADF awards small grants for technical assistance and capacity building to grassroots organizations, cooperatives and community enterprises that strengthen local institutions and achieve lasting impact. The grants help organizations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs.
Phoenix!
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. The Trust concentrates efforts in six areas: arts and culture, children, education, healthcare and medical research, older adults, and religious organizations.
I’m providing five half-day workshops for grantees and for Trust staff.
Virginia!
The Foreign Service Institute is the Federal Government’s primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats and other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs interests overseas and in Washington. At the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, the FSI provides more than 600 courses—including some 70 foreign languages—to more than 100,000 enrollees a year from the State Department and more than 40 other government agencies and the military service branches.
Georgia!
The American Evaluation Association is a professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness. AEA has approximately 8,000 members representing all 50 states and more than 60 countries.
I’m speaking at the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference in Atlanta.
Do you feel like you’ve exhausted the typical charts like bar charts and line charts? If so, this interactive workshop is for you! We’ll discuss pros, cons, and tools for creating more than a dozen different styles of charts. You’ll get exposed to new styles that are sure to make your data shine, like dot plots, small multiples layouts, Sankey diagrams, network maps, and geographic maps, as well as options for visualizing your organization’s qualitative data.
We’ll pause and practice matching the right chart to sample datasets. You’ll also participate in several hands-on activities in Excel, like creating spark lines, data bars, and heat tables. Materials for hands-on practice in Excel will be shared with registrants a few days before the webinar.
Organized by GrantStation, open to all! Register.
Virginia!
The Foreign Service Institute is the Federal Government’s primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats and other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs interests overseas and in Washington. At the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, the FSI provides more than 600 courses—including some 70 foreign languages—to more than 100,000 enrollees a year from the State Department and more than 40 other government agencies and the military service branches.
Austin!
While Austin experiences significant growth, the community remains overwhelmed by persistent social challenges. Mission Capital provides the tools and guidance needed to tackle these complex issues and create lasting social change. Mission Capital combines human, financial, intellectual, social and political capital to fuel the work of mission-driven people and organizations.
I’m speaking at Mission Capital’s Data Institute, an invitation-only event for nonprofit grantees of several major Foundations in Central Texas, who have formed the Evaluation and Learning Collaborative. I’m giving a morning breakout session and an afternoon workshop, and I’ll be providing follow-up coaching and consultations to grantees as part of their Technical Assistance Provider Marketplace.
Ever feel like you’re swimming upstream in data? Need to make sense of spreadsheets, but not sure where to start? Have a gut feeling that you’re not getting the most out of common software programs like Microsoft Excel?
During this three-hour webinar, I’ll guide you through the data analysis process, which involves:
This webinar is highly interactive; I’ll demonstrate a skill and give you opportunities to practice and ask questions immediately. I’ll provide sample datasets, such as program satisfaction survey data, outcome data, participant demographic data, and more.
What we won’t cover: inferential statistics (use statistical software like SPSS or SAS instead), data visualization (that needs to be a separate webinar altogether), or your particular datasets (we’ll have a few dozen people so we’ll all be working from the same common dataset).
This three-hour webinar will be delivered over two separate days.
Hosted by the American Evaluation Association, open to all! Registration opens a few weeks before the webinar.
Are you trying to tell a story with your data? Do you need to cut to the chase so that your viewers can understand your graphs faster and easier? Roll up your sleeves, dive in, and get comfortable adjusting those default settings so that your story comes through!
I’ll guide you through the process of transforming your Excel graphs into storytelling tools. You’ll learn how to push the least important parts of the graph to the background (like too-thick borders) and how to pull the most important parts of the graph to the foreground so that your message stands out.
During this interactive workshop, you will: reduce chart clutter by adjusting borders, grid lines, and tick marks; label your data points and axes; ensure that your text is hierarchical; match your graph’s colors and font to your nonprofit’s color palette; guide viewers’ eye movements with saturation; and ensure that colors are legible when printed in black and white and for people with colorblindness.
Materials for hands-on practice in Excel will be shared with registrants a few days before the webinar.
Organized by GrantStation, open to all! Register.
I provide customized workshops on data visualization and dashboard design. Contact me if you want to bring me in.
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