Collaboration
Cultivate data-driven communities that collaborate and learn together towards success across geographies, issue areas, and key stakeholders.
Capacity-Building
Leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to learn, improve, and effectively tell your story of impact.
Technology
Enable multi-level goal tracking by measuring success metrics and KPIs across nonprofit, funder, and community levels.
A data-driven approach to advancing social impact
Data has the power to create lasting and impactful social change, but 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 Cohort programs enable foundations to support their nonprofit grantees through critical capacity-building around data skills and access to cutting-edge impact measurement software, while strengthening trust-based relationships through shared learning.
Meet changemakers where they are today, for a better tomorrow.
Build data-driven ecosystems that accelerate learning and impact.
Measure impact metrics across nonprofit, funder, and community levels.
Empower organizations to define and communicate their story of impact.
Help nonprofits build long-term capacity around data collection, analysis, and management.
Reimagine burdensome reporting across multiple stakeholder groups.
About our Cohort Programs
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.
How We Do It
What's Included in a Cohort Program
UpMetrics Technology
Funders and their sponsored grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.
Managed Services
Participants will receive guided support around the development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.
UpAcademy Sessions
Participants will be taught the fundamentals and best practices for data collection and analysis, well as how to leverage impact data to effectively tell your story.
Community Insight Sessions
Participants will attend quarterly shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact and progress towards goals facilitated by UpMetrics.
Cohort Program Overview
Download our one-pager to understand how you can get involved in one of our upcoming Cohort Programs.
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Interested in co-sponsoring an existing Cohort or starting one of your own?
Complete the form to share a little about your organization and what you're looking to accomplish this year.
Foundations and other grantmakers:
You can choose to either sponsor your own Cohort or co-sponsor an existing Cohort.
Nonprofits:
Reach out to see how you can become a participating grantee in one of our sponsored Cohorts.
