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 can help us drive lasting social change, but only if organizations can access, understand, and use it effectively.
To fully benefit from the data revolution, we need more data skills and collaboration across mission-driven organizations.
Our Cohort programs help foundations support nonprofits with essential data skills and advanced measurement tools, while fostering trust through shared learning.
Our cohort model helps foundations and grantees use data, technology, and community to drive effective systems-level change.
So, how does it work?
A foundation (or group of foundations) can create or join a cohort by sponsoring 5+ nonprofit grantees who are eager to enhance their impact through data.
The program offers access to the UpMetrics platform, training sessions, professional setup services, and shared learning opportunities for 3 years.
Funders and their sponsored grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.
Participants will receive guided support around the development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.
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.
Participants will attend quarterly shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact and progress towards goals facilitated by UpMetrics.
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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 your own Cohort or co-sponsor an existing Cohort.
Reach out to see how you can become a participating grantee in one of our sponsored Cohorts.
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.
The Foundation/Funder who sponsors the grantees will receive quarterly updates via an UpMetrics Cohort Overview dashboard, which details progress made by their nonprofit partner.
Sponsoring a Cohort program is a unique way for foundations to provide their grantees with capacity-building tech services and connect them with a community of like-minded peers, guaranteeing the long-term impact of their financial support. Not only can they measure their own impact using the UpMetrics platform, their grantees will also be able to do the same, and build impact measurement and data analytics systems that will only benefit them in the future.
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.