Key Events refer to something that may have had an impact on the success of your group’s efforts. This may include events that are perceived as positively or negatively affecting the initiative. For example, this may include completing action planning or receiving a grant that enables you to hire staff; or it may include a loss of leadership or a tragedy in the community that mobilizes people for the cause.

Tracking Key Events helps you record significant events in the life of the initiative. It can be helpful to view these events in a line graph with a date range and look at associations between the events and increased or decreased rates of community changes or other accomplishments.

Key Events interface view.

 

  • ​You can create a Key Event that is linked to an Accomplishment, or create a standalone Key E​vent. Both will appear in your Key Events listing and on the Timeline on the Dashboard.

Creating Key Events linked to an Accomplishment

  • Click Edit on an existing Accomplishment (under View Accomplishments), or create a new Accomplishment first and click Save.
  • Click Key Event in the upper right of the Accomplishment:

Accomplishments - right navigation bar.

  • Fill out appropriate fields. Event Date and Title will display on a graph, but also include a Description of the event.
  • Click Save to save the Key Event.
  • Click Save and Close to save changes to the Accomplishment.

Creating standalone Key Events without being linked to an Accomplishment

  • ​Click Key Events in the left navigation bar of your CCB.

Key Events - left navigation bar

  • Click + New at the top of the Key Events listing.
  • Fill out appropriate fields. Event Date and Title will display on a graph, but also include a Description of the event.
  • Click Save.

  • ​Click Key Events in the left navigation bar.
  • Click the Export button.