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What does growth mean in the context of a non-profit? Is it really a meaningful metric?
by arkitaip 10y ago
What does growth mean in the context of a non-profit? Is it really a meaningful metric?
- adrianN 10y agoNumber of people using the service seems like a good metric.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIn the context of our space - more tools, more people coming to use those tools, learn and build awesome stuff. It is a meaningful metric because it's our whole raison d'être - providing free access to more and more advanced workshop for building stuff and learning new skills.
- TallGuyShort 10y agoEveryone needs to measure success somehow, and increasing your performance against that metric (which is often linked with growth) is good. I worked with a non-profit for a while where each member was asked to track performance against goals. It was often repeated, "it's not about the numbers." No, it's about the people you're serving, but the numbers represent people and serving more people is better. What's wrong with trying to do that? It doesn't have to come at the expense of forgetting the people behind the numbers.