Free ebook · 22 pages

Showcase: Visual Dashboards for Social Impact

The social sector does not need more static reports that are hard to interpret and out of date the day they publish. It needs transparent, current, visual spaces where data becomes shared understanding — and shared understanding leads to better decisions.

This guide makes the case for visual dashboards in mission-driven work, grounds it in published research on visualization, transparency, and collective impact, and shows exactly where Clear Impact Showcase fits alongside Scorecard and Compyle.

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Cover of the Clear Impact ebook, Showcase: Visual Dashboards for Social Impact

What is inside

Ten sections, start to launch

  • 01The social sector has a visibility problem
  • 02What visual dashboards change
  • 03From data tracking to outcome improvement
  • 04Collective impact requires shared visibility
  • 05Transparency builds trust when it is useful
  • 06Where Showcase fits in the Clear Impact Suite
  • 07What Showcase makes possible
  • 08Use cases by audience
  • 09How to build a dashboard people will actually use
  • 10A three-step launch

Who it is for

Built for the people who have to show the work

Funders and foundations

Connect grantee work to shared outcomes in a portfolio view your board can actually read.

Government agencies

Publish performance, population indicators, and progress toward strategic goals in the open.

Nonprofits

Show how many people were served, how well, and whether they were better off.

Backbone organizations

Give many partners one place to see whether separate work is adding up to community progress.

Data visibility is the bridge between performance measurement and performance improvement.

See it live

Three published Showcase dashboards

The ebook uses all three as worked examples. Open them to see the same widget system carrying very different stories.

A Turn the Curve exercise, done in publicOne population result, the indicators behind it, and the two programs working to move it — anchored against United Nations SDG data. An annual report you can exploreA community annual report published as a live dashboard, with external benchmark data beside local trends. A five-year plan, tracked in the openThe Capitol Hill BID strategic plan, with goals, supporting work, and measures published publicly.

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