What Happens When You Approach Collaboration with Intention Part One
View a recording of our webinar where Annie Rhodes, Chief Strategy Officer at UpMetrics, shares the top three takeaways from the recent collaboration-focused survey distributed to over 1,000 foundations and nonprofits and provides a straightforward approach that you can apply to collaboration to maximize success.
Learn a 5-step approach for how you can be approaching collaboration with intention, incorporating these takeaways, for maximum impact.
Featured Speakers:
- Annie Rhodes, Chief Strategy Officer, UpMetrics
What Happens When You Approach Collaboration with Intention Part Two
View a recording of our webinar where Kaci Patterson, Chief Architect at the Black Equity Collective and Stephen Minix, Managing Director at UpMetrics, discuss key steps Kaci and her team took to ensure a collaborative effort was created with the BEC that truly drove change where it was needed.
Learn the essential role trust plays in partnerships in your community and steps to take to ensure you're building trust in your collaborative efforts.
Featured Speakers:
- Stephen Minix, Managing Director, UpMetrics
- Kaci Patterson, Chief Architect, the Black Equity Collective
Building Capacity Beyond the Grant
View a recording of our webinar with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana, Line4Line, and UpMetrics, where we discussed the importance of building a strategy that sets grantees up for success with capacity building grants.
Learn how BCBSLA Foundation identified the data capacity of grantee partners after awarding the grant, developed a strategy to meet them where they are when defining goals for success and established processes to track progress toward those goals.
Featured Speakers:
- Micheal McElveen, Customer Manager, UpMetrics
- Chloe Wiley, Foundation Initiatives Manager, The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana
- Lucy Perera, Co-founder, Line4Line
Coming Together to Accelerate Impact
View a recording of our webinar with Thrive Chicago and UpMetrics, where we discussed how Thrive set up an environment of reflective learning that drove deeper collaboration and transparency with their partners, resulting in conversations that drove greater impact.
Learn the tactics, tools, and techniques that allowed Thrive to help organizations quantify the success of their work, as well as the questions they asked themselves and partners to set up an environment that supports reflective learning.
Featured Speakers:
- Micheal McElveen, Customer Manager, UpMetrics
- Jessica Dargiel, Data and Learning Manager, Thrive Chicago
Leveling Up Philanthropy
Enjoy this recording of our webinar with the Kauffman Foundation and UpMetrics, where we discussed how impact organizations can leave the reporting status quo behind and begin tracking and applying data in ways that drive learning, collaboration, and change.
Featured Speakers:
- Drew Payne, CEO and Co-Founder, UpMetrics
- Jessica Mindnich, Ph.D., Sr Director of Evaluation, Learning and Impact Stories, Kauffman Foundation
Pallottine Foundation of Huntington Webinar Recording
In 2019, the Pallottine Foundation of Huntington decided to empower their grantees with data analytics tools to help them improve program design and implementation. The ultimate goal is to support grantees with more effectively telling their stories to increase access to additional funding opportunities.
Learn how they are building capacity for nonprofits and leveraging data to better understand the needs of their grantees to address substance use disorder in West Virginia.
Featured Speakers:
- Drew Payne, CEO and Co-Founder, UpMetrics
- Janell Ray, Chief Executive Officer, Pallottine Foundation of Huntington
Driving Impact with Data
Data is transforming how the philanthropic sector drives impact. But driving impact with data doesn’t happen overnight.
Learn how the GRAMMY Music Education Coalition™ are using data to create alignment with stakeholders and move their mission forward.
Featured Speakers:
- Lee Whitmore, Executive Director, GRAMMY Music Education Coalition™
- Ryan Zellner, Strategic Programs Director, GRAMMY Music Education Coalition™
Addressing the Whole Child: Measuring SEL
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Measuring Social and Emotional Learning in Afterschool and Community Programs
Social and Emotional Learning, or SEL, has become an increasingly important way to measure the effectiveness of afterschool and community programming. But how, exactly, to obtain those metrics, and what to do with the results can be a mystery to those less familiar with the subject.
Featured Speakers:
- Stephen Minix, Managing Director, UpMetrics
- Sally Munemitsu, Chief Collaborator & COO, Algorhythm
- Penn Gottfried, Junior League Director, Beat the Streets NY
Bridging the Gap: How Data Can Align Providers and Funders to Drive Impact
Data empowers providers to build capacity, drive program design, and increase access to funding. Meanwhile, access to data helps funders evaluate programs and understand the true impact of the funds they are giving to grantees.
In this webinar, we share a case study from Atlanta to demonstrate how providers, foundations, and districts are coming together around data to drive impact.
Featured guests include:
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- Stephen Minix, Managing Director, UpMetrics
- Julia M. Lankford, Atlanta Program Officer, Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA
- Marvin Hightower, Executive Director, The First Tee of Atlanta
Driving Impact with Data
This webinar, with UpMetrics Managing Director (and former Green Dot Schools Athletic Director) Stephen Minix, addresses the following:
In this webinar, we share a case study from Atlanta to demonstrate how providers, foundations, and districts are coming together around data to drive impact.
Featured guests include:
- The Link between Academics and Athletics
- Athletics as Academic Intervention Tool
- Leveraging Data to Measure Impact
- Using Data to Tell a Story
- Case Study: Green Dot Public Schools
- How UpMetrics Can Help
