For our April Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop, we discussed the challenges and approaches to get leadership buy-in around data. If this is something you’re tackling, read our crowd-sourced set of pointers.
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Our panel - from Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, Scottish Government and Stirling Council - discuss assessing data maturity in the public sector.
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For our March Nonprofit datafolk club, we had a lovely group of folks join us to discuss data science in nonprofits. Here are some of their thoughts about the opportunities that data science could offer and how nonprofits can make the most of it.
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Choosing a survey tool can be a challenging task for nonprofit organisations. So, we’ve looked at eight survey tool providers to consider, and broken down the key features and considerations of each.
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We offer a crowd-sourced list of organisations that offer data support to social sector organisations.
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As part of our Nonprofit datafolk Club, we invited people to get together for an hour in January to discuss their use of geodata. The knowledge and experience they shared is a useful source of inspiration and ideas on geodata.
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We invited data folk from nonprofits to get together for an hour in November and discuss the tools they use across their data pipelines. Here’s a handy list of the tools they find useful.
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Each month we bring together data folk from different nonprofits to discuss a particular aspect of data. These workshops are fun, relaxed and interactive. Last month we asked people to consider data culture. Ben Proctor summarises notes from the workshop.
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We've been using a simple tool to have conversations about data and analytics for a little while now. We wanted to share it because we think it's useful and because we are interested if there are changes or improvements that could be made.
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We run online workshops every month aimed at data folk in nonprofits. These workshops aim to bring people together to discuss matters of common concern and to share their experiences. For the September workshop we invited people to bring and share their experiences and perspectives around data skills.
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Our latest State of the Sector report analyses data from 2021 users of our Data Maturity Assessment tool to see what it tells us about the state of data maturity in the not-for-profit sector.
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Katie Eastaugh, Chief Executive of The Cart Shed, has taken her organisation on a 4-year data maturity journey. Having just completed their 5th data maturity assessment, she reflects with us on the journey so far.
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Shona Nicol, Head of Data Standards at the Scottish Government, talks through her experience of using the data maturity assessment with a cohort of public sector bodies, as part of a wider data strategy.
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The results of Data Orchard’s 2022 Impact Analysis of the Data Maturity Assessment Tool show that the tool is regularly used for learning about data maturity, and taking an assessment is often a catalyst for discussion with colleagues which can lead to further action.
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We ran the a workshop on "The greatest data strategy ever". We divided the 15 attendees into three breakout groups and asked each group to discuss a series of questions. This post summarises their answeres to those questions.
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A recording of our webinar on how agencies can use our Data Maturity Assessment tool with their non-profit clients.
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Dr Jenny Andrew, Head of Data at The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, talks candidly about the challenge to improve data maturity in the organisation, and how Data Orchard’s Data Maturity Assessment tool was key to forming a plan.
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Kate White from Superhighways talks through how she used the cohort version of our Data Maturity Assessment with a group of small charities.
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Clare Shanklyn on how Prostate Cancer UK encouraged staff to engage with their organisational Data Maturity Assessment, and what they did with the results.
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Our innovation director shares some of his top tips for developing a good data strategy in a non-profit organisation.
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