Using Data as a Differentiator to Drive Dollars to Your Organization

We were recently inspired by the Standard Social Innovation Review's latest article on The Power of Evidence, which implores that the social impact industry needs evaluation methods that are more ...

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March 26, 2024 • 3 min read
UpMetrics Launches Free Impact Framework Building Tool for Impact Organizations
March 25, 2024 • 3 min read
Hitting the Bullseye: What to Consider When Building an Impact Framework Tailored To Your Nonprofit
February 28, 2024 • 1 min read
UpMetrics Celebrates 5 Years of Grantees in Chicago
February 13, 2024 • 3 min read
The Mission Driven Bank Fund partners with the National Bankers Association Foundation and UpMetrics to Close the Racial Income and Wealth Gaps
January 23, 2024 • 4 min read
UpMetrics Partners with Chicago Foundations to Help Their Grantees Measure Impact of Social Change Programs
January 17, 2024 • 2 min read
UpMetrics Honored with 2024 Real Leaders Impact Award
January 08, 2024 • 2 min read
The Key to Their Hearts & Inboxes? Include Your Impact Goals and Framework in Your Fundraising Emails.
January 07, 2024 • 2 min read
Effective Nonprofit Email Fundraising that Drives Grantmakers and Donors to Act
January 04, 2024 • 3 min read
The Strategic Imperative - Exploring the Power of Impact Frameworks for Mission-Driven Organizations
November 15, 2023 • 2 min read
The Four Types of Data Analysis and Their Applications in the Impact Space
October 30, 2023 • 3 min read
Key Takeaways from GIIN 2023
October 02, 2023 • 2 min read
Shifting Tides: Impact Investing's Embrace of Emerging Markets and the Imperative of Impact Measurement
August 31, 2023 • 7 min read
How to Measure the Impact of a Project as A Social Impact Organization
August 17, 2023 • 2 min read
10 Reasons Private/Family Foundations should Care about Impact Measurement
August 11, 2023 • 1 min read
5 Steps to Create a Successful Impact Cohort
August 02, 2023 • 1 min read
UpMetrics Hires Amy S. Patel as Director of Product
July 19, 2023 • 2 min read
Moving Beyond 'Vanity Metrics' - Key Questions to Ask Yourself to Bring Depth to Impact Reporting
July 05, 2023 • 2 min read
How to Use Key Impact Indicators (KIIs) to Drive your Impact Measurement Strategy
June 14, 2023 • 7 min read
Impact Investing 101: Using Capital to Create a Better Future for All
May 18, 2023 • 2 min read
Driving Gender Equity: Strategies for Inclusive Investment Portfolios
May 04, 2023 • 2 min read
Fluxx and UpMetrics Announce Global Partnership to Bring First-of-its-kind Grantmaking, Impact Management and Analytics Solution to Philanthropy
April 25, 2023 • 2 min read
Impact Investors: 6 Definitive Ways You Can Tell Your Impact Story Better
April 05, 2023 • 7 min read
How to Stop the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle (Plus How to Avoid It!)
March 23, 2023 • 1 min read
The Importance of Working With Subject Matter Experts on Impact Measurement For The Social Sector
February 14, 2023 • 3 min read
Championing Trust-Based Philanthropy Through Our Impact-Driven Cohort Program
January 26, 2023 • 8 min read
The Ultimate Guide to Storytelling with Data Visualization
January 26, 2023 • 8 min read
How to Harness the Power of Business Storytelling
December 07, 2022 • 7 min read
How to Build a Data-Driven Culture in Your Organization
October 19, 2022 • 3 min read
Kauffman Foundation and UpMetrics Launch Impact Data Fellowship
August 25, 2022 • 3 min read
The Journey to Becoming DEI-Driven
August 16, 2022 • 12 min read
How Can Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research Benefit Nonprofits?
July 25, 2022 • 10 min read
8 Essential Qualitative Data Collection Methods
June 29, 2022 • 3 min read
3 Commonly Shared Opportunities, and Challenges, for the Future of Impact Measurement & Management
April 13, 2022 • 5 min read
Drawing Insights from Data: An Actionable Guide for Nonprofits
January 07, 2022 • 5 min read
Data vs. Information: The Differences You Need to Know
December 21, 2021 • 2 min read
Own Your Impact Story in 2022
November 01, 2021 • 6 min read
Monitoring and Evaluation: When is the Right Time to Invest?
October 20, 2021 • 2 min read
The Definition of Impact
October 20, 2021 • 3 min read
Results Based Accountability Framework: A Guide
October 18, 2021 • 5 min read
Grants Management: Best Practices for Nonprofits
September 23, 2021 • 3 min read
The Glue to Any Successful Collaborative Effort is Data
September 21, 2021 • 4 min read
The Secret to Getting Stakeholders to Listen: Creating Trust and Value
September 10, 2021 • 7 min read
How to Create a Theory of Change Framework
August 19, 2021 • 2 min read
A recent survey points to more opportunity for collaboration – what does that mean?
August 18, 2021 • 5 min read
The Importance of Qualitative Measurement in Driving Social Good
July 20, 2021 • 5 min read
​​We need to shift the funder-grantee dynamic, but where to start?
July 15, 2021 • 3 min read
Focus on Transparency to Drive Alignment and Build Stronger Programs with Grantees
July 01, 2021 • 5 min read
What Is Social Impact and Why Does It Matter?
June 24, 2021 • 3 min read
How Storytelling Can Help Philanthropy Communicate Impact in a Way That Inspires Action
June 23, 2021 • 2 min read
How to Do a Mid-Year Data Check
June 21, 2021 • 1 min read
Ensure Your Organization is Taking an Equity Lens to Data
June 21, 2021 • 2 min read
How to Drive Internal Conversation Around Data
June 15, 2021 • 6 min read
SROI: Definition, Types of SROI, and Examples
May 24, 2021 • 4 min read
New Ways to Build Grantee Capacity: Setting Them Up to Scale
May 10, 2021 • 2 min read
The Importance of Storytelling
April 29, 2021 • 2 min read
Volunteer Month: Focusing on Community Capacity
April 23, 2021 • 3 min read
Are You Using Data to Drive Action?
April 23, 2021 • 4 min read
Gaps in Your Data? UpMetrics Can Help.
February 18, 2021 • 3 min read
Seeing the Big Picture with Public Data
February 16, 2021 • 2 min read
Unlocking the Key Questions to Ask Your Data: The Insights Will Follow
January 27, 2021 • 1 min read
A New Approach to Grantee Reporting
December 31, 2020 • 3 min read
Data Alone Won't Drive the Change We Need.
December 21, 2020 • 3 min read
2020 Series: Committing to DEI Metrics
December 21, 2020 • 2 min read
2020 Series: How Real-Time Access to Data is Transforming Communications
December 21, 2020 • 2 min read
2020 Series: The Importance of Context
December 21, 2020 • 3 min read
2020 Series: Using Data to Drive Collaboration
December 21, 2020 • 4 min read
2020 Series: Creating a New Path and Learning as We Go
December 09, 2020 • 3 min read
The Key to Empowering Nonprofit Board Members with Compelling Information at the End of the Year: Board Reports
December 08, 2020 • 5 min read
3 Ways Dashboards Connect You to New Opportunities
December 02, 2020 • 2 min read
Public Datasets: A Guiding Light for Schools During the Pandemic
November 25, 2020 • 3 min read
The Importance of Showing Impact: Engaging Donors with Data
November 14, 2020 • 2 min read
The Value of Collective Impact: Lessons from Beyond Sport
October 13, 2020 • 2 min read
Rising to the Occasion: How the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves are hitting home runs in their communities
September 10, 2020 • 2 min read
Empower Your Nonprofit Board to Be an Extension of Your Fundraising Team
July 29, 2020 • 4 min read
Ravenswood Education Foundation: Addressing Educational Inequity in the time of COVID
July 20, 2020 • 3 min read
3 Ways Foundations Can Support Nonprofits Beyond COVID-19 Relief Funding
May 19, 2020 • 2 min read
Collecting & Tracking Virtual Engagement Data
January 22, 2020 • 3 min read
5 Steps to Create a Data-driven Culture at Your Impact Organization
December 05, 2019 • 4 min read
11 Steps to Collect & Leverage High-Quality Survey Data
September 17, 2019 • 4 min read
WEALF: Empowering Women, Powering Business in New York City
September 09, 2019 • 1 min read
Leverage Your Data, Tell Your Story: UpMetrics Stories
August 19, 2019 • 2 min read
4 Key Steps to Start Analyzing Your Foundation’s Impact
August 19, 2019 • 2 min read
3 Steps Foundations Can Take to Build Capacity for Grantees
August 13, 2019 • 2 min read
Special Olympics Northern California & Nevada is Leveraging a Legacy of Impact to Build a Data-driven Future
August 09, 2019 • 3 min read
Stop Talking about Data; Start Talking about Impact
August 08, 2019 • 2 min read
Here are the 4 Steps Nonprofits Need to Get Started Analyzing Impact
August 08, 2019 • 2 min read
5 Ways to Boost Nonprofit Fundraising with Data
July 25, 2019 • 7 min read
The Real MVP: Merging Veterans and Players to Build a Foundation for the Future
July 23, 2019 • 4 min read
Data is the Goal: How Soccer Without Borders Has Made Data Central to Its Practice
June 28, 2019 • 1 min read
Data Notes: Metrics Matter to the GRAMMY Music Education Coalition
June 05, 2019 • 2 min read
Let's Build (The Nonprofit Sector) To Scale
May 28, 2019 • 3 min read
The YMCA’s Workforce Development Program is Opening Doors for Disadvantaged Youth—and Keeping Them Open
October 05, 2018 • 6 min read
Finding Their Voices: How Jill Gurr and Create Now are helping at-risk kids go from struggling with literacy to writing a narrative for the future
April 30, 2018 • 2 min read
Playing for Keeps: Why the GRAMMY Music Education Coalition wants to make music part of every child’s curriculum
March 15, 2016 • 4 min read
Pitch Perfect: How America SCORES New York Empowers Youth is Poetry in Motion