About this course

Proficiency Area: Learning.

Population Needs is an organization's ability to assess the needs of a target population in relation to its programs, services, or strategies.

In the first lesson toward your silver Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • Two key challenges we face when trying to understand our population better.

  • Pitfalls to avoid in community needs assessment and data-gathering.

  • A means of reducing bias, particularly confirmation bias, in our data collection and analysis work.

  • How a community assets inventory can start you off on the right foot with population needs analysis.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect in this badge

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Putting Your Population Needs Abilities Into Practice

    1. Activating Your Own Abilities to Understand Your Population's Needs

    2. Activating Your Team's Abilities Around Population Needs Analysis

    3. Check your learning

    1. Improving Population Needs Practices in Your Nonprofit

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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