Cultivate data-driven communities that collaborate and learn together towards success across geographies, issue areas, and key stakeholders.
Leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to learn, improve, and effectively tell your story of impact.
Enable multi-level goal tracking by measuring success metrics and KPIs across nonprofit, funder, and community levels.
Data has the power to create lasting and impactful social change only when impact-seekers have access to it, know how to draw insights from it, and are empowered to use it to make effective decisions and tell their stories.
But we need more data talent and more data collaboration within mission-driven organizations for the social sector to fully benefit from today's data revolution.
Our Cohorts and Impact Learning Collectives help foundations and nonprofits to develop critical data skills while strengthening relationships with other mission-driven organizations through shared learning.
Our cohort model is an innovative way for foundations and grantees to leverage data, technology and community to learn, measure and evaluate towards effective systems-level change.
So, how does it work?
A foundation, or group of foundations, motivated to drive outcomes within a specific region or issue area can create a cohort, or join an existing cohort, by sponsoring 5 or more nonprofit grantees that have a strong desire to accelerate their impact by leveraging data more effectively.
The program provides nonprofit grantees and funders with access to the UpMetrics platform, as well as capacity-building training sessions, professional services to get up and running quickly, and UpMetrics-hosted shared learning sessions for 3 years.
Funders and grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.
Guided development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.
Learn fundamentals and best practices for data collection and analysis, well as how to best leveraging data to tell your story
Quarterly shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact, facilitated by UpMetrics.
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Our national, theme-based Impact Learning Collectives are an innovative way for mission-driven organizations to collaboratively learn, measure and evaluate towards effective systems-level change.
These theme-based Learning Collectives operate nation-wide and enable organizations that are focused on the same impact areas, but may not be geographically close to one another, to connect and share their learnings to more collaboratively and effectively drive positive outcomes in their specific impact areas.
This Learning Collective looks to connect and empower funders and grantees that are focused on helping BIPOC entrepreneurs to build sustainable wealth in their communities through entrepreneurial opportunities, or through access to investments, resources, and knowledge.
Start Date: Fall 2023
This Learning Collective connects funders and grantees that are focused on helping communities to create more vibrant, active places through their built environments or to provide resources and programs that encourage healthier, happier lifestyles.
Start Date: Fall 2023
This Learning Collective connects funders and grantees that are focused on helping youth reach their full potential by providing academic, financial, social, or one-on-one supports that help youth access education or engage in intentional, productive, and constructive ways.
Start Date: Fall 2023
This Learning Collective connects funders and grantees that are focused on providing individuals with resources and training to develop skills for employment, connecting individuals with employers, and properly preparing them for the future of work.
Start Date: Fall 2023
Our theme-based Impact Learning Collectives operate nation-wide and enable organizations that are focused on the same impact areas, but may not be geographically close, to connect and share learning to collaboratively drive impact.
Download our one-pager to understand how you can get involved in one of our upcoming Cohort Programs.
Complete the form to share a little about your organization and what you're looking to accomplish this year.
You can choose to either sponsor a Cohort or to join a national Impact Learning Collective.
Reach out to see how you can become a participating grantee in one of our sponsored Cohorts, or choose to join one of Impact learning Collectives!
Still have questions about our cohort programs? Feel free to reach out - we'd love to discuss how we can work together to drive collective impact!
The UpMetrics Academy is a 3 year program that empowers Nonprofits with the knowledge and tools necessary to begin telling their organizational impact story. The program brings together Nonprofits and Funders to learn and grow in a community of peers. After each participant successfully completes Year 3, they will receive an UpMetrics digital certificate that can be shared via LinkedIn. The Foundation/Funder who sponsors the grantees will receive quarterly updates via an UpMetrics Cohort Overview dashboard, which details progress made by their nonprofit partners.
Throughout the 3-year program built into the Build-Operate-Transfer phases, Thematic-based and Place-based Cohorts will explore different subject areas and class topics such as:
The program provides grantees access to the UpMetrics platform, assignments to guide them through their data journey, 1:1 sessions with UpMetrics staff, community events to get to know their fellow grantees, as well as the full UpMetrics resource library.
Our Cohorts help foundations and nonprofit grantees to develop critical data skills that enable them to understand, maximize, and communicate outcomes in real-time, while strengthening relationships with other mission-driven organizations through shared learning.
The program provides nonprofit grantees and funders with access to the UpMetrics platform, as well as capacity-building training sessions, professional services to get up and running quickly, and UpMetrics-hosted shared learning sessions for 3 years.
A typical Cohort will run for 3 years to align with our services-supported Build, Operate, Transfer model.
Sponsored nonprofit grantees will receive access to the UpMetrics features that are critical for measuring the impact of their programs and communicating that impact to their grantors and community stakeholders.