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REanalyze: What is your EVP Data Saying? (An Encore Presentation from the 2014 VolunteerMatch Client Summit)
Jake Sanches Leverager
Palantir Technologies
VolunteerMatch Volunteer
Speaker: Facilitator:
Lauren Wagner Sr. Manager, Engagement
VolunteerMatch
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How To Ask Questions
• Type questions into the box on the
right side of the your screen
• Submit via Twitter to
@VM_Solutions using “#VMbpn”
• We will pose questions at the end of
the presentation
• A copy of the slides will be circulated
after the event
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September 18-19, 2014
Detroit, MI • 110 attendees representing 62
companies
• Cross-sector collaboration, global pro
bono, millennials, and more…
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2014 VolunteerMatch Client Summit
Jake Sanches Leverager
Palantir Technologies
VolunteerMatch Volunteer
REanalyze: What is your EVP Data Saying?
• Top rated Best Practice Café session
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Me: Data Nerd
• Cognitive Neuroscience @ Washington University in St. Louis
• Predictive Modeling @ Mattersight Corporation (Chicago) – Customer Satisfaction
– Customer Attrition
– Fraud Detection
• Palantir Technologies – Recruiting Analytics
– People Analytics (Employee Survey, Organizational & Attrition Modeling)
– Product Analytics
• “Data-oriented person” – Excel Wizard Level 45, SQL, Python, R, Tableau
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Goals of This Webinar
1. Using data to drive decision making
– Fall in like with data!
2. Review VolunteerMatch’s 2014 Metrics
Benchmarking Survey
3. Thinking about your EVP data differently
4. Demonstrating Impact to Different Audiences:
Communicating Data
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Data Driven Decision Making
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Data Driven Decision Making
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americas-best-burrito/
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Data Driven Decision Making
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EVPs: Unlocking Value in Your Data
• Data: Driving this generation of Employee
Volunteer Programs
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Benchmarking Metrics Project Survey
July 2014
• Top Metrics : What Respondents Want
– Total Hours
– Total # of Employees
– Participation Rates
– ROI $ Value
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Benchmarking Metrics Project Survey
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Nonprofit Engagement (e.g., # ofsignups by nonprofit, # of hours…
Site Utilization (e.g., Unique visitors,page views, account registrations)
Impact by Cause (e.g. Hunger, STEM,Children & Youth)
Benchmarking with other companies(by size, by industry)
Employee Engagement (e.g, Hoursvolunteered, signups, # of volunteers)
Absolutely critical
Very useful
Useful
Somewhat useful
Not useful
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Benchmarking Metrics Project Survey
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Total external guests (#, signups, or hours…
Hours volunteered on company time vs.…
Top skills utilized by employee volunteers
% of unique volunteers by group (e.g.,…
Total signups, hours or unique volunteers…
New vs. existing volunteers
Top 5-10 employee volunteers who have…
$ value of volunteer hours per employee
% of employees who have signed up for…
Avg hours volunteered per employee
Total $ value of volunteer hours
% of employees who are unique…
% of employees who have tracked hours
Absolutely critical
Very useful
Useful
Somewhat useful
Not useful
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Benchmarking Metrics Project Survey
• What Metrics Matter to You?
Metric Area (Weighted Rank Order) Top Metrics
1. % of employees who have tracked hours
2. % of employees who are unique volunteers
3. Avg. hours volunteered per employee
4. Total $ value of volunteer hours
5. % of employees who have signed up for an opportunity
6. S value of volunteer hours per employee
1. Hours per cause
2. Total $ value of volunteer hours by cause
3. # volunteers per cause
1. # of total projects
2. % of people who activated their account from employee population
3. % of unique visitors from employee population
1. Hours volunteered per organization
2. Top 5-10 organizations by signups, hours or unique volunteers
3. # of nonprofits reached
Causes
Site Utilization & Engagement
Employee Engagement
Nonprofit Engagement
(Benchmarking)
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Measuring Your Program:
Demonstrating Impact
• Where are we?
• Where do we need to go?
• How do we get there?
• How are we doing on our way there?
Data: Significant driver of development.
Demonstrating your impact is hard. Stories are
great, but they do not provide the highest-level
structured picture for your program
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Balance of Data & Communication
• What can you do?
– Determine 3-5 metrics that work for you
• Start simple
– Report consistently
• Always use a visualization over a stat in a line of an email or
document
• *Not compelling for single-item metrics.
– Review
– Generate plan based on current situation
– Revisit plan at regular check ins, metrics in hand
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Presenting Data Visually
• Numbers are great. Show me trends
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces
us to notice what we never expected to see.”
John Tukey, American Mathematician
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Palantir Technologies
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Understanding Trends
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Understanding Trends:
Powerful Context
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Understanding Trends: Diving In
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Choosing the Right Metrics
• Total hours / employees vs. Distribution of hours/employees – Answers: Am I getting new employees into the
program?
– % of hours by employee experience, tenure – Drive targeted employee groups
• Comparisons by Location, Division – Answers: Where are my rock stars? Who can I
leverage to increase engagement of others around them?
– % distribution of volunteer activities, hours
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Choosing the Right Metrics
• Stickiness:
– Depth metrics:
• Avg. Hours / Activity / employee
• Avg. Activities / Employee
• Depends on your goals!
• Site Utilization : # Signups vs. Conversions
– % of people who logged in that ended up volunteering
(Current Benchmark: Connection rate)
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Choosing the Right Metrics
• What Impact did we make on the community? – Histogram Distribution of Causes, Organizations
• Hours Total, Avg. Hours an employee volunteers / cause
• Percentage of Total
• Unique # Employees / % of Total Volunteering Employees
• Actions to drive: – How do we continue to make an impact and grow the
program? • Target employee population by specific cause, nonprofits that
are/have been popular
• Context: Time of year, yearly trends (i.e. Children & Youth around the holidays) to drive opportunities
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Visualizing Trends
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Visualizing Trends
• Benchmarking Metrics: How am I doing?
– Compared to my industry
– Compared to companies of similar size
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Visualizing Trends
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Visualizing Trends
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Unique New Metrics to Consider
• Who are your most important volunteers?
• Skills gained through volunteering
• What happens after a special event—how do the
metrics change: Avg. # of activities signed up in
the 30-days following a special event
…and much more!
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Communicating About Your Program
Audience Data
Employees Impact: Causes, Organizations Helped
Leadership Value of the program, growth, total hours—translate to $ value
Investors and the Public Impact on the community: who and quantify how much
Nonprofits Contribution: How many employees, how many hours
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Communications
• To Employees & public marketing: Getting and
retaining new talent
– Millenials & corporate impact
– Chegg Research: Students respect companies that
exercise commerce with conscience, with 88%
reporting "it is important for companies to give back to
the community" and 80% reporting "it is important for
me to buy from companies that have responsible
business practices.“
• Chegg 2013 "Undercover With College Students" study
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Jake’s Tips for Communicating Data
• Email Updates/Newsletters: Paste graphs / charts, don’t attach!
• High level summary up front, on top / top left
• If data doesn’t look good: Acknowledge it! Write a plan to address.
• Time series = line graphs
• Proportions vs. Raw Counts
• No more than 6 colors in a graph – and only by categorical comparisons (i.e., location) – Red: Most important (badness)
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VolunteerMatch: Leading the Way
New Metrics Reports:
• New tools to enhance data presentation
• Easier to find high-level data
• More visually appealing
• Interactive Web Dashboard
• Live right within each client’s VM site
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Q&A
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• Type questions into the box on the
right side of the your screen
• Submit via Twitter to
@VM_Solutions using “#VMbpn”
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Stay Informed
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Twitter: @VM_Solutions
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newsletter - Sign up on the
blog!
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Save the Date – November 20th
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2014 Giving in Numbers: Insights from CECP’s Annual Research
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
10 a.m. – 11 p.m. PT (1-2 p.m. ET)
Register here: http://bit.ly/1wy3Y2e
Featuring:
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Michael Stroik
CECP