1. The Gold Mine: Using your data to show the impact of TeamMates to funders and friends
Tess Starman, Data and Match Support Specialist
Jen Benson, Development Director
July 25, 2017

2. What does all this data mean??
Presentation Outline:
Understanding the language of your TeamMates Dashboard
How to use this language in a sentence
How to explain the TeamMates impact to others with the help of your dashboard
Time for Questions

3. TeamMates Gold
Understanding the Language of Your TeamMates Dashboard

6. TeamMates Gold Using TeamMates Gold in a Sentence:
Explaining Your Data to Funders and Friends

8. TeamMates Gold
Strike it rich: mining your data to secure funding for your program

9. Describing TeamMates: 101
Sample Question: Describe your organization’s mission, vision, values.
Mission: to positively impact the world by inspiring youth to reach their full potential through mentoring.
Vision: Insert your chapter’s vision here – goal number of matches, strategies to help students succeed, etc.
Core Values: Commitment to youth, Integrity and Trust, Safety and Inclusion.
Insert information about your local chapter.

10. Describing TeamMates: 102
Sample Question: Describe your organization’s core functions/program.
School-based mentoring program that matches adult volunteers with youth in grades 3-12 with the goal of seeing the student reach high school graduation with a plan for post-secondary education.
Matches meet once per week during the school year. Meetings at school provide for safety of both mentor and mentee and allow for on-site match support from school building staff.
Matches learn their strengths which helps identify the mentee’s unique gives and talents, giving the mentee a positive outlook for a hopeful future.
Beginning in middle school, matches start working on plans for the mentee to prepare for college or other post-secondary education to prepare them to achieve their dreams in adulthood.

11. Using the Dashboard to Explain Impact
Sample Question: How does your program measure impact or change?
Perception of match quality in mentor/mentee surveys
Length of match = 3 years or more
Students reaching high school graduation with a plan for post-secondary education
# of mentoring visits = 24 or more
Improvement in grades, attendance and behavior

12. Using the Dashboard to Explain Impact
Sample Question: How does your program define success?
% of matches that last three years or longer
% of mentors completing renewal training every three years as defined in our program standards
Annual retention rate above xx%
xx% of matches reaching 24 or more visits each year

13. TeamMates Gold
Questions and non-statistical answers