October 12, 2006

Checking the Dashboard

By Debra E. Blum

A children's charity borrows a corporate tool to monitor its performance

Kate Becker, a vice president at Kaboom, a Washington charity, helps oversee her charity's efforts to build hundreds of playgrounds and recreational spaces each year.

Helping her to manage and keep track of all those projects is a system that Kaboom has borrowed from the corporate world, known as a "dashboard."

The performance-monitoring tool gives organizations a quick, one-shot view of their goals

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