Measuring Outcomes
The Ripple Mapping Tool was formed to meet the need expressed repeatedly by non-profit organizations, foundations, social entrepreneurs and others for new ways of measuring the ever-multiplying “outcomes” that may emerge from a single training, grant award, or other discrete interaction. It takes data about participant experience that too often sits unused in survey databases and translates that data into useful stories that can inform programmatic priorities and strategies.
Data tells a thousand stories. How can organizations most effectively capture and wield data to uncover the stories that reveal the impact of their work – especially those organizations working to address complex issues over extended periods of time, using network-based approaches? The Ripple Mapping Tool uses Natural Language Processing and interactive data visualization to do just that.