Tracking and Evaluating Outcomes to Ensure Funder Support—Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 3 p.m. (EST)

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Accomplishments in your organization are less meaningful if nobody knows about them. How do you ensure that your community, funders, and other stakeholders are informed about the good work of your center and your consortium? Neighborhood Networks centers must operate as a business and track their good work to indicate their value to the community and the support they should receive for their efforts. Consortia can help them accomplish these goals. When consortia apply for funding, one of the key inquiries from funders is whether an organization has the capacity to use their funds for their work. For a consortium, that means: Can the centers that comprise your consortium hold together to do the job? What have they done before? What kinds of successes have they experienced? Do they have records to indicate what they have done?

The strength of a consortium lies in the strength of its centers. The consortium works on behalf of several centers; for that consortium to achieve success, its centers must individually track their successes. Our speakers for this call will address this topic from a number of angles. You will hear from Holly Ross, executive director, The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN); Terri Ottosen, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM); and Shari Sabath, president, the New Jersey NetWorks consortium.

By participating in this call, participants will learn:

	How to determine which metrics are meaningful to funders.
	How to keep track of program outcomes and materials at centers.
	How to use technology to monitor tracking and evaluation activity.
	How to present documentation and data to funders in a useful way.
	How to use tracking and evaluation measures as a marketing tool to monitor visibility in the community.

How the Call Works

Dial toll-free (888) 556-5018 and ask to be connected to the Neighborhood Networks conference call. Please be prepared to provide the operator with your contact information.

Please call between 2:45 and 3 p.m. (EST). The conference call begins promptly at 3 p.m.; however, you may join the call at any time.

For more information, contact the Neighborhood Networks Information Center, toll-free, at (888) 312-2743. The hearing impaired may access Neighborhood Networks via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service, toll-free, at (800) 877-8339.

Additional questions or ideas can be posted on the Neighborhood Networks discussion board.