P2PU | Data Jam for Data Needs Assessment

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Learn how to help nonprofits or projects understand and manage their data needs.

Anyone who is interested in helping nonprofits with their data analysis needs. This challenge, uses the real needs of the Ozone House, acommunity-based, nonprofit agency that helps young people lead safe, healthy, and productive lives through intensive intervention and prevention services. We'll work through the different types of data needs, sources, and how to organize them accordingly. This challenge works participants through a series of analysis questions based on questions from the Ozone House to make a data needs assessment. This allows organizations, nonprofits, and those interested in volunteering to help these organizations with their data needs create plans of action.

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1. Overview of Doing a Data Needs Assessment View and Discuss Introduction
2. Needs Evaluation View and Discuss What are the components of a needs evaluation? How do you get started?
3. Data Evaluation View and Discuss What are the two types of data needs? What are the two sources of data?
4. Case Study: Ozone House View and Discuss Here, we'll walk you through a data needs assessment with Ozone House, a nonprofit that works with at-risk youth.

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