Collaborative Cohorts

Nonprofits need support now more than ever before, and we believe collaboration is the key to unlocking capital for impact and catalyzing transformative progress.

Our Collaborative Cohort program is a transformative grant opportunity that allows funders to support grantees beyond the dollar while building stronger partnerships - ensuring nonprofits have the skills and resources to succeed now and in the future.

Simplify Reporting

Provide grantees sponsored access to tools that empower them to Define, Collect, Analyze and Leverage impact data.

Build Nonprofit Capacity

Equip grantees with skill-building training around data management, reporting, and impact storytelling.

Strengthen Relationships

Build stronger relationships with grantees through facilitated collaboration sessions and tools that ensure alignment.

Accelerate Growth

Empower grantees to use data to measure their impact, drive learning and improvement, and increase access to funding.

COHORTS IN ACTION

Better Relationships Better Results

Our Collaborative Cohort model helps grantmakers and their grantees to use data, technology, and community to build stronger relationships and drive effective systems-level change.

But what does that really mean in practice?

Check out our video recapping a recent meetup for our Bay Area Cohort to hear more about the program and how it's impacting funders and grantees alike.

What's Included in a Collaborative Impact Cohort

UpMetrics Technology

Funders and their sponsored grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.

Onboarding

Participants will receive guided support around the development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.

Learning Sessions

Participants will attend shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact and progress towards goals facilitated by UpMetrics.

UpMetrics' IMM Platform

Funders and sponsored grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics IMM Suite, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.

To explore the platform's powerful features, check out our interactive demo.

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Ready to make a transformative grant?

Funders are being asked to do even more in today’s climate, and we can help.

Our Collaborative Cohorts can be established for as little as 10 grantees, at a cost of only $3,500 per grantee.

This could just be the most transformative grant you'll make.

Let's Do This

Enhance collaboration and alignment between you and your grantees
Empower grantees to use data to measure their impact and increase/diversify funding
Improve program effectiveness
Simplify tracking and reporting on program outcomes across multiple grantees
Customize program dashboards and reports to share with leadership

Why do funders and nonprofits love our Cohorts?

The best part about the Cohort is hearing about challenges other organizations are facing and what solutions they've found for themselves.

I feel like I'm learning something new to bring back to R.O.C.K. after each session, and I really hope I'm leading others with some of our lessons learned as well.

Curt Yagi

Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K)

Working with UpMetrics has helped our organization level-up data management and reporting. They provide step-by-step instructions and great ideas for structuring our data sets.

We are thankful to have been a part of this Cohort and are excited about the future of data reporting for our key stakeholders.

Brittney Robbins

The Grey Matter Experience

UpMetrics has helped our grantees gain insight into the quality of their own work and see the impact they're making in the lives of the people they serve. It has helped them understand their story and tell it better than they could before.

Clare Butterfield

Christopher Family Foundation

Participating in a Cohort has given us the space to evaluate how we think about our data. It will certainly mature us as an organization.

Rebecca Monro

The GenderCool Project

Interested in starting a Cohort program for your grantees?

Complete the form to share a little about your organization and how you're looking to support your grantees.

FUN FACT:

Nonprofits that participate in our cohorts increase their funding by 55.8% year over year, on average.

Cohort Program FAQs

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!

What resources are available to grantees throughout the program?

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.

What makes a great grantee partner?

Excitement and a commitment to leverage data to move your mission forward through learning, data driven decision making and storytelling
Strong senior leadership that supports the partnership with UpMetrics
An internal champion that's willing to lead the engagement - both internally across teams and externally with UpMetrics. Typically the internal champion works within one of the following focus areas:

1. Program Operations
2. Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation
3. Data & Analysis
4. Development

What is the benefit for sponsoring foundations?

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.

What is the benefit for sponsored grantees?

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, capacity-building training sessions, onboarding to get up and running quickly, and UpMetrics-hosted shared learning sessions.

Do nonprofit grantees get access to the full UpMetrics platform functionality?

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.

Data Collection and Management
Integrated Community Indexing Data
Data Analysis & Dashboards
Simplified Reporting

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