Nonprofit Impact Measurement: Indicators, Outcomes, Cost per Outcome & SROI

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn one year of enrolment data from six sites into completion rates, a pooled completion rate, an unduplicated reach figure and a count of sites below target: the output numbers every impact report starts from.
• Measure seven indicators against their baselines and targets, including two that should go down, give each a status from the bands and flag the ones that are behind.
• Measure the change in a cohort's job-readiness scores the honest way: only participants with both scores, the share who improved and the gain of those who started lowest.
• Check a follow-up survey before trusting it: response rate, an employment rate re-weighted for who answered, the margin of error and the sample size the next survey needs.
• Turn gross outcomes into net outcomes the programme can claim, add them up, show how much of the gross figure survives and cross-check the jobs with a comparison group.
• Load four programmes with their share of overheads, compare the cost per participant with the cost per net job, name the most cost-effective programme and flag the ones above the funder's benchmark.
• Value five years of sustained jobs with a financial proxy, let the effect fade with a drop-off rate, discount it to today and divide by the investment to get an SROI ratio.
• Build the board's quarterly view: completion rate and cost per net job per quarter, the quarter-on-quarter change, a trend chart of net jobs and the best quarter.