The Nonprofit Program Success Blueprint

Program success is a capacity within our nonprofit that encompasses our abilities to measure the impact our programs have on our population served. You’re likely already taking some steps toward effectively assessing the success of each program and service in your nonprofit. Our learning here in the bronze badge will look closely at the importance of this capacity.

The next few lessons will explore:

• What program success is, and why it matters.

• The skills that can be used to improve how you assess your impact.

• What effective program evaluation looks like, and

• How we can support the development of an evaluative culture.

Program success doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and each of us has the opportunity to understand how each program we offer factors into the bigger social impact we’re seeking. Let’s begin with our first lesson, “What is program success?”

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what program success is and what it looks like in your non-profit.

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Now that you have some basics about nonprofit program success, let's take a look at why it matters.

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In this lesson, we'll look at the five skills needed to support your capacity for program success. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

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In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effectiveness in program success looks like, and how can we measure it.

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In seeking program success from an impact perspective, evaluation is critical in understanding what’s working, what’s not, and why.

In this lesson, we'll explore a few categories of assessing program success.

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Welcome to our silver badge lessons on Program Success! As you work toward your silver badge, you’ll go deeper into the “how” of programs: how we can activate evaluation in our organization, how to lead the effort to improve your program understanding, and setting goals that look to build up your capacity and that of your organization in building an evaluative culture.

Let’s jump in on our next lesson on activating program success in our nonprofits!

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Let’s start with activating your program success efforts and go beyond the focused skill-building we talked about in our bronze lessons. We’ll look at more deeply exploring your motives for improvement, managing innovation, and understanding others.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your program success efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at how to put program success efforts into practice with a look at how to build and enhance it in your nonprofit.

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In our consideration of how to build up your own capacity in developing and supporting effective program success at your nonprofit, we’re going to consider the principles behind goal-setting.

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Setting goals to improve your nonprofit’s overall program success efforts looks and feels different than setting goals as an individual.

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Welcome to your final series of courses on program success! We’ve covered a lot of ground on what program success is and isn’t, how you can put it into practice, and what it looks like when it’s done well. In our gold-level lessons, we’ll bring this learning together to explore how we can get and stay motivated to build up our own evaluation abilities.

These lessons also include a review of all we have covered in our work on this topic, and you’ll have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan to conclude your learning.

Let's jump in!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building program success efforts in your organization.

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In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit program success efforts, especially those who may be resistant.

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In this final teaching lesson on program success, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

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