Grantmaker Impact Measurement
Sopact collaborates with grantmakers and foundations to enhance the impact management capabilities of their grantees. Through our partnership, we work alongside you and your grantees to effectively measure and manage the theory of change, data strategy, and impact dashboard—utilizing innovative approaches for meaningful outcomes.
For growth stage nonprofits and social enterprises.
Growing a social enterprise requires timely impact data to make strategic decisions and communicate with investors. Sopact gives your organization credibility for raising capital.
Streamlining Your First Impact Dashboard in 60 Days
At Sopact, we understand the importance of a successful impact implementation process. That's why we've developed a streamlined work plan to help you build your first program and impact dashboard in just 60 days. While this may be your first program or goal, our process is iterative, allowing you to build on your success and implement future programs in a similar manner. Talk to us today to learn more about how we can help you achieve your impact goals efficiently and effectively.
Phase 1 Data Strategy
Create an actionable framework, ensuring that it will meet your "learning goals."
This ensures your desired outcomes are mapped out all the way to data.
All-in-one Logic Model, Data, and Dashboard Strategy
With our AI-driven Impact Strategy, you can leverage our extensive library of hundreds of industry templates to personalize and tailor them to meet your organization's needs. Whether you're building SMART metrics for mission-driven purposes or aligning with IRIS metrics for investor reporting, our strategy is just the beginning. The real value of our approach lies in our ability to guide you towards the best data collection strategy and dashboard plan to impress and engage funders, even before data collection begins.
Phase 2: Data Design
Design effective and actionable activity, output, and outcome data most relevant for impact measurement only.Define an Effective Data Collection Strategy
- Design activity, output data
- Design stakeholder survey
- Define effective data collection technique
- Map source data from Sopact Survey, MS Excel, and Google Spreadsheet
- Calculate and map results to metrics.
- Other sources include Salesforce and CRM
Phase 3: Data Analytics
Integrate your data source with advanced visualization platform to provide deep insight, define detailed analysis techniques and communication planAdvanced Analytics and Use of Data
- Advanced data visualization techniques
- Communicating results and impact to stakeholders
- Strategies for sustaining data analytics for social impact
- Strategy
- Metrics
- Data Collection
- Survey
- Analytics
- Dashboard
- Communication
Impact Framework
With our AI-driven Impact Strategy, you can leverage our extensive library of hundreds of industry templates to personalize and tailor them to meet your organization's needs. Whether you're building SMART metrics for mission-driven purposes, aligning with custom metrics, or standard metrics for foundation reporting, our strategy is just the beginning. The real value of our approach lies in our ability to guide you towards the best data collection strategy and dashboard plan to impress and engage funders, even before data collection begins.
Impact Metrics
Impact investors must prioritize aligning their impact frameworks with investees to drive positive change. Our state-of-the-art platform simplifies this process by utilizing an AI-based recommendation engine that leverages IRIS+ metrics and SMART metrics for investees. In addition, this collaborative platform allows investors and investees to actively comment on and agree upon appropriate metrics, ensuring a tailored and cohesive impact measurement strategy.
Recognizing the diverse needs of impact funds, our platform offers the flexibility to customize metrics based on the size of the fund and its thematic focus. Investors can aggregate standard metrics across their portfolios or develop theme-specific and investee-specific metrics. This adaptability empowers investors to create comprehensive and versatile impact measurement strategies, optimizing the impact of their investments across various portfolios and themes.
Impact Data Collection
As your organization grows, you may find that different fund or program managers collect impact data in various systems. However, there's no need to worry. Our Impact Cloud platform is an advanced and user-friendly solution that allows you to collect data from multiple sources such as Google Spreadsheets, MS Excel, Sopact surveys, other survey platforms, or even Salesforce. Collect your data, which will show up in Impact Cloud in real-time, where you can easily aggregate common, program-specific, and company or project-specific indicators.
Impact Survey
Our business intelligence platform, Impact Cloud, offers advanced real-time connectivity and ease of surveying. You can collect data through various methods such as offline and online modes, SMS, WhatsApp, longitudinal tracking, and scheduled campaigns. Additionally, our platform enables data simulation and generates automated reports.
Impact Analytics
Impact Data Analytics collects, cleans, transforms, and aggregates data from various sources to comprehensively understand an impact investment organization's operations. This includes measuring the impact of programs, tracking project outcomes, evaluating employee performance, understanding causality between programs and outcomes, and making data-driven decisions about resource allocation. Nonprofit data analytics provides valuable insights that help organizations improve their impact on their communities, despite being time-consuming for data analysts and teams.
Our promise:
- Want to join two data sources to calculate retention metrics longitudinally? No worries
- Need last-minute data clean-up? Easy
- Want to change a label in your dataset that you don’t like? Done
- Have a custom scoring methodology? Do it in minutes
- Collect data in one language and want to report in another
Data visualization and analysis platform that provides its users with a wide range of chart capabilities. Some chart types can be created using hundreds of chart possibilities, such as bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, area charts, heat maps, pie charts, and more.
Users can customize these charts by selecting different types, colors, fonts, and design elements. They can also add filters, groupings, and drill-down functionality to create interactive dashboards.
Impact Dashboard
- Impact Dashboard can measure progress and impact by tracking real-time metrics.
- It can improve decision-making by providing comprehensive data on program performance and resource allocation.
- It can increase transparency and accountability by sharing performance data with stakeholders, such as donors, board members, and staff.
Our promise:
- 100+ Advanced visualization and integrated on data warehouse
- Provide an advanced architecture that personalizes databases and dashboards based on growing program team needs
- Help you configure each team's data store and data analysis based on organizational rules
- Publicly share dashboard
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Impact Reporting
Our platform enables effective data communication within your organization, allowing you to share progress and outcomes with boards, staff, and supply chain partners to build trust.
With our easy-to-use tools, you can create visualizations and dashboards highlighting important metrics, keeping everyone informed and engaged toward your organization's goals.
Our platform provides a powerful tool for data-driven decision-making and building stakeholder trust.
What do our customers say?
This is it. This is the tip of the spear in impact management. It's what I was looking for, and I only found one organization doing it, and that was SoPact."
