Nonprofit Impact Measurement
Discover how Sopact's tools and expertise can help you measure your nonprofit's impact and make data-driven decisions to create meaningful change.

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From Tiny Budgets to Big Impact: A Nonprofit's Journey with SoPact
In this video, a nonprofit leader shares their success story in securing funding for impact management. They discuss the challenges they faced with a limited budget and how they used research and advocacy to convince their major funder to invest in SoPact's impact management services. They also share their tips on how to make a compelling case for funding and how investing in impact management can maximize accountability and success in nonprofit organizations. This video is a must-watch for anyone in nonprofit leadership looking to revolutionize their budget process and enhance their impact.
Nonprofit Impact Measurement and Reporting
At Sopact, we understand that many nonprofit organizations need help raising grants and communicating their programs' impact. While collecting feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders can help, more is required. Our team of experts works shoulder to shoulder with you to understand your program goals, build a robust logic model, and develop practical survey questions and data collection processes. Simply providing question-by-question impact reporting is not enough. Instead, we work with you to create richer insights into your program based on stakeholder demographics, NPS score, satisfaction, and qualitative and quantitative feedback.
At Sopact, we go beyond just providing survey tools. We work with you to build effective impact dashboards within 60 days and even help you develop impactful storytelling reports. Our approach has helped organizations raise millions of dollars in grants, and we're confident that we can help you too. With Sopact by your side, you can maximize the impact of your nonprofit programs and take your organization to new heights.
Measuring impact helps nonprofits stay on track with their mission, prioritize effectiveness, and create a streamlined approach to social impact.
Measuring and reporting impact enhances a nonprofit's integrity and credibility, demonstrating a commitment to impact accountability and quality.
Impact evidence creates value for nonprofits, enabling them to leverage untapped value, gain a competitive advantage, and achieve more impactful results.
Comparing Your Options
A data-driven approach to social impact programs is essential if you're a corporate looking to move towards CSR 2.0 and become more intentional with your community investment. However, implementing such an approach can be challenging, especially if you need a clear theory of change or an understanding of the social return on investment. This is precisely what Audible, an Amazon company, Birth Equity, Boys to Men, Talent Beyond Boundaries, Encoprs, and many others found when they partnered with Sopact.
To address this challenge, you have three options. First, choose the option that best fits your corporate social impact program needs. Remember, a systematic approach that combines impact and technology expertise is essential for success.
The first option, hiring a consultant, is a common approach but comes with significant challenges. Consultants may need more expertise in aligning data collection and selecting practical data analysis tools, resulting in delayed implementation time and additional costs. Additionally, a social impact program requires a solid commitment to data ownership, and only an experienced consultant can guide you better. However, it would be best if you took full ownership with a long-term commitment from management.
On the other hand, building your system internally requires a collaborative strategy tool like Sopact, an essential criterion for effective impact strategy implementation. Even if you use off-the-shelf tools for data collection and visualization, you'll still face significant challenges cleaning up, transforming, and integrating data collection. These tools are not designed to unify output/activities and outcome data nor to learn output and outcome together. A social impact program requires significant collaboration, metrics alignment, and different data collection techniques.
The third option is to work with Sopact and Impact Cloud, combining 30+ years of experience working with leading corporates and the leading impact measurement and management platform. This solution can streamline your impact strategy, data collection, and dashboard in 60 days. By working with experts from day one, you can save time and money and quickly achieve your impact goals.
Therefore, it's essential to approach impact measurement systematically, with a clear understanding of your goals and the necessary tools to achieve them. Collaborating with an expert in data analytics and impact management, like Sopact, can help you align your strategy, data collection, and data visualization, leading to better impact measurement outcomes. Working with an experienced implementer will help you achieve your desired results in impact measurement.
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 (Ask Sopact - Not included in base price).
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
Nonprofit logic model
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.
Nonprofit KPI
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are critical for nonprofits to track and measure progress toward their goals. KPIs provide a quantitative measure of the effectiveness of an organization's efforts and help identify improvement areas. Review a few nonprofit KPIs and provide examples of social impact, operations, and fundraising.
The impact strategy app allows to AI-driven approach to create SMART metrics based on your activities, outputs, and outcomes
Data collection software for nonprofits
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.
Nonprofit 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.
Nonprofit Data Analytics
Nonprofit Data Analytics collects, cleans, transforms, and aggregates data from various sources to comprehensively understand a nonprofit 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.
Nonprofit KPI Dashboard
- A Nonprofit KPI 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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Nonprofit Reporting
Our platform enables effective data communication within your organization, allowing you to share progress and outcomes with boards, staff, and funders 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.
Sharing key outcomes with funders helps demonstrate the impact of your work and strengthen relationships. Our platform provides a powerful tool for data-driven decision-making and building stakeholder trust.
Secure Impactful Grants Today
Please sign up below for the Impact Cloud solution today. Choose between our BootCamp or Advisory programs based on your budget and internal impact measurement capacity. Our Advisory program is staffed by experienced impact management experts and provides ongoing support for long-term success.
This program may not be suitable for organizations with complex data and analytics needs. However, it can still be used as a pilot before deciding. You can take the first steps toward effective impact measurement and management with our guidance and support.
Unified Solution
Opt for a fully integrated solution instead of relying on disparate applications like Excel, survey tools, and PowerBI/Tableau for comprehensive impact measurement. While these tools might seem cost-effective, they are not explicitly designed for impact measurement. Attempting to do it yourself can result in thousands of wasted hours and a lack of impact management expertise. Instead, by partnering with Sopact, you can save substantial time and quickly build your dashboard, ensuring smooth and effective decision-making.
Buy now! $399/month
Bootcamp
Get the full bootcamp benefits and exclusive access to the resources and materials for 30 days after completion.Advisory
Depends on complexity. But the average program for the following services is 20 hrs.
This advisory is a game-changer for organizations that need more experience in impact measurement and wish to avoid the expense of hiring costly consultants. With our lifetime coach, you can work collaboratively to achieve the following:
- Review your impact strategy
- Certify your impact strategy
- Recommend a data collection plan
- Coach you on creating an effective impact dashboard
If you desire an impactful report design, reach out to Sopact, and our team of skilled designers and researchers can combine their expertise to deliver an insightful impact report. Trust us to help you achieve your organization's goals efficiently and cost-effectively.
$200/hr
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Nonprofit Impact Report
Demonstrating the impact of nonprofit programs through data-driven impact reports can help secure funding and make informed decisions to maximize social impact. Sopact offers a winning formula for creating effective impact reports, guiding nonprofits through the process of building an impact strategy, collecting data, and communicating the evidence. By following best practices such as aligning the impact strategy with organizational goals and weaving a compelling story with both qualitative and quantitative data, nonprofits can showcase their impact and encourage support for their mission. Sopact's cutting-edge technology helps nonprofits make informed decisions and drive change in their communities.
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."


