Shared measurements systems are one of the keys to a collective impact effort. This session offers insight into how technology solutions can support a collective impact effort and offers best practices for implementing shared measurement systems.

This talk focuses on an affordable housing collective impact initiative involving over 50 nonprofits and cities. The project includes a program management tool that allows affordable housing organizations to manage day-to-day work efficiently, while providing the centralized data for quantitative reports requested by funders and to use for peer group evaluation. The data provides an organization with program performance metrics relative to its peers across the country, allowing best practices to become part of the dialogue among organizations. This talk will discuss the best practices and lessons learned that are applicable to other collective impact efforts.