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.
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Collective Impact
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.
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 grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.
Professional Services
Guided development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.
UpAcademy Sessions
Learn fundamentals and best practices for data collection and analysis, well as how to best leveraging data to tell your story
Community Learning Sessions
Quarterly shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact, facilitated by UpMetrics.
About our Impact
Learning Collectives
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.
Impact Learning Collective Themes for 2023
Empowering BIPOC
Communities & Entrepreneurs
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
Fostering Healthy
Communities
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
Education &
Youth Development
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
Workforce Development
& Sustainable Employment
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
What's the difference?
Impact Learning Collectives vs Cohorts
Impact Learning Collectives
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.
Cohorts
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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Want to join one of our Cohorts or themed Impact Learning Collectives?
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 a Cohort or to join a national Impact Learning Collective.
Nonprofits:
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!
