This year marked major momentum across our three Chicago-based cohorts.
The Foglia Family Foundation launched its 2025–26 Impact Cohort, supporting 10 nonprofits — including three brand-new grantees joining the community. These organizations are already building stronger data practices, clearer impact stories, and deeper connections across the cohort.
Meanwhile, our two additional Chicago cohorts — sponsored by IMC Chicago Charitable Foundation and the Christopher Family Foundation — continued to advance learning, collaboration, and capacity-building for dozens of nonprofits across the region.
We’re proud to have partnered with Impact Capital Managers (ICM) on a research report exploring how portfolio companies experience impact data — and what they need from investors to use it more effectively.
Impact Data as a Value Driver draws on insights from nearly 100 of ICM's portfolio companies, examining how they collect and use impact data, the barriers they face, and the types of support that would make impact measurement and management (IMM) more effective and efficient.
Key findings:
We’re honored to have played a role in shaping research that helps advance more practical, aligned, and value-driven IMM practices across the field.
Watch as Miami-Dade Innovation Authority presents a dynamic session on how to use qualitative and quantitative data to tell powerful stories that engage funding partners and drive social impact.
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This session spotlights the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation's transformative journey, exploring how they evolved their data practices, led by Kerry Klima, Ph.D., Director of Evaluation & Impact.
Featuring members of our Southeast Michigan Community Impact Cohort, this session highlighted the vital role of collaboration and data-informed strategies in strengthening community initiatives.
A major leap forward for clients who want to dig deeper into impact data, compare performance across programs, and tell clearer stories of impact.
We’ve redesigned reporting to be collaborative instead of extractive, reducing friction for grantees and portfolio companies while giving grantmakers and investors higher-quality data.
Streamlined data requests that ease the burden on grantees/investees.
Shared visibility so both sides work from the same set of facts.
Collaborative workflows that unlock insights faster and strengthen trust.
We are so proud of the places we showed up, the conversations we facilitated, and the stages we got to be on in 2025. It's made us even more excited for what's to come in 2026, and we want to do it with YOU.
