Cultivate data-driven communities that collaborate and learn together towards success across geographies, issue areas, and key stakeholders.
Leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to learn, improve, and effectively tell your story of impact.
Enable multi-level goal tracking by measuring success metrics and KPIs across nonprofit, funder, and community levels.
Data has the power to create lasting and impactful social change, but only when impact-seekers have access to it, know how to draw insights from it, and are empowered to use it to make effective decisions and tell their stories.
But we need more data talent and more data collaboration within mission-driven organizations for the social sector to fully benefit from today's data revolution.
Our Cohort programs enable foundations to support their nonprofit grantees through critical capacity-building around data skills and access to cutting-edge impact measurement software, while strengthening trust-based relationships through shared learning.
Our cohort model is an innovative way for foundations and grantees to leverage data, technology and community to learn, measure and evaluate towards effective systems-level change.
So, how does it work?
A foundation, or group of foundations, motivated to drive outcomes within a specific region or issue area can create a cohort, or join an existing cohort, by sponsoring 5 or more nonprofit grantees that have a strong desire to accelerate their impact by leveraging data more effectively.
The program provides nonprofit grantees and funders with access to the UpMetrics platform, as well as capacity-building training sessions, professional services to get up and running quickly, and UpMetrics-hosted shared learning sessions for 3 years.
Funders and their sponsored grantees both receive access to the UpMetrics platform, while funders also receive select roll-up data from grantees.
Participants will receive guided support around the development of impact frameworks and KPIs, data collection templates, dashboard building, and more.
Participants will be taught the fundamentals and best practices for data collection and analysis, well as how to leverage impact data to effectively tell your story.
Participants will attend quarterly shared insight sessions between funders and grantees to discuss collective impact and progress towards goals facilitated by UpMetrics.
Funder-Grantee Cohorts
Activated in 2022
Grantee NPOs
Enabled via Cohorts
Community Members Served
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Download our one-pager to understand how you can get involved in one of our upcoming Cohort Programs.
Complete the form to share a little about your organization and what you're looking to accomplish this year.
You can choose to either sponsor your own Cohort or co-sponsor an existing Cohort.
Reach out to see how you can become a participating grantee in one of our sponsored Cohorts.
Still have questions about our cohort programs? Feel free to reach out - we'd love to discuss how we can work together to drive collective impact!
The UpMetrics Academy is a 3 year program that empowers Nonprofits with the knowledge and tools necessary to begin telling their organizational impact story. The program brings together Nonprofits and Funders to learn and grow in a community of peers. After each participant successfully completes Year 3, they will receive an UpMetrics digital certificate that can be shared via LinkedIn. The Foundation/Funder who sponsors the grantees will receive quarterly updates via an UpMetrics Cohort Overview dashboard, which details progress made by their nonprofit partners.
Throughout the 3-year program built into the Build-Operate-Transfer phases, Thematic-based and Place-based Cohorts will explore different subject areas and class topics such as:
The program provides grantees access to the UpMetrics platform, assignments to guide them through their data journey, 1:1 sessions with UpMetrics staff, community events to get to know their fellow grantees, as well as the full UpMetrics resource library.
Our Cohorts help foundations and nonprofit grantees to develop critical data skills that enable them to understand, maximize, and communicate outcomes in real-time, while strengthening relationships with other mission-driven organizations through shared learning.
The program provides nonprofit grantees and funders with access to the UpMetrics platform, as well as capacity-building training sessions, professional services to get up and running quickly, and UpMetrics-hosted shared learning sessions for 3 years.
A typical Cohort will run for 3 years to align with our services-supported Build, Operate, Transfer model.
Sponsored nonprofit grantees will receive access to the UpMetrics features that are critical for measuring the impact of their programs and communicating that impact to their grantors and community stakeholders.