Gerard, I'm not sure I understand this concern. Data of all kinds are important, but in this case, the questionnaire is meant to help organizations reflect on how they make the strategic choices they do, and what more we can do, as individual organizations and collectively across the movement, to be effective.
These questions are not answered by numbers alone, as by context and resource mapping and analysis.
Perhaps if you gave me examples of the data you believe we should be collecting/sharing, I would understand better?
Warmly, Anasuya On Dec 1, 2014 11:22 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, I would assume that statistics are an important tool. There are many statistics I can think of off the top of my head that make sense in this context.,
WHERE ARE THEY...
Given that this is a WMF initiative, why are the statistics not there.. You have the capability ! and the need is obvious when the ED says that metrics are how chapters are evaluated.. Thanks, GerardM
On 1 December 2014 at 22:56, Anasuya Sengupta asengupta@wikimedia.org wrote:
tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support
each
other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire
Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement:
The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which
is
unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created
and
supported almost entirely by volunteers.
The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1)
how
impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts,
what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and
what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue.
In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC
and
other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable
time
to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work.
The second and third stages of the project involve development of an
online
organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational
effectiveness
learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies.
*Learning center:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center
.
*User guide:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide
*Questionnaire text:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionna...
*Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire
The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences
and
best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take.
Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team,
along
with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific program strategies.
*We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or questions: the WMF contact for this process is Winifred Olliff. Please contact us with questions or suggestions at orgeffectiveness@wikimedia.org.
Many thanks to all who offered their time and expertise to the different stages of this project. We hope this tool will be useful to you in your work, and we welcome your continued feedback.
Warm regards and looking forward to our continued work together! Anasuya
--
*Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
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