Metrics Mania: Creating a Dashboard for Your Organization

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
Fee: varies (see chart)
Instructor: Jan Masaoka
Course Code: PD 24

Course Description
A car’s dashboard gives you key information about your vehicle’s progress and health, all in a glance.  Imagine a device that would do the same for your nonprofit…then come to this workshop to make it happen.  Dashboards are reporting and communications systems that are easy to read, do not require buying anything to implement, use data that tracks your organization’s successes, and warn of possible upcoming dangers. Designed by each organization to meet its specific needs, dashboards use easily accessible data and can provide a high-impact management tool. 

Instructor's Bio:
Jan Masaoka is a leading writer and thinker on nonprofit organizations with particular emphasis on boards of directors, business planning, and the role of nonprofits in society. She is currently the Director and Editor-in-Chief of an online nonprofit magazine: Blue Avocado (www.blueavocado.org), which will launch in April of 2008. She recently left her position of 14 years as executive director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (www.compasspoint.org), a consulting and training firm for nonprofits based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. For the past 10 years, Jan has written the Board Café for nonprofit board members, a newsletter now with 50,000 subscribers (www.boardcafe.org).

Jan authored The Best of the Board Café (Fieldstone Press) and All Hands on Board: The Board of Directors in All-Volunteer Organizations (BoardSource), and her research work includes recent studies on women executive directors of color, executive director tenure, all-volunteer organizations, and nonprofit space & occupancy needs. She is a frequent keynote speaker and contributor to nonprofit journals.

Jan's community activities include serving as the Chair of the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center (www.apiwellness.org), and as a board member of the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds (www.ciffunds.org) and the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley (www.hfsv.org). She is an Advisory Board member for the Stanford Social Innovation Review (www.ssireview.org). Jan was a member of the Governance and Fiduciary Working Group of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector convened to advise the US Senate Finance Committee. She has completed two terms on the Telecommunications Commission of the City and County of San Francisco.

For eight of the past nine years Jan has been named one of the "Fifty Most Influential People" in the nonprofit sector nationwide, and in 2003 she was named "Nonprofit Executive of the Year" by Nonprofit Times. In 2005 she was named "California Community Leader of the Year" by Leadership California.

She lives in San Francisco and can be reached at jan@blueavocado.org

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