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Dear Reader

As a nonprofit professional navigating the data and evaluation landscape, where do you go for help? Whether you’re getting into the intricacies of improving your survey design, or making critical decisions, like hiring your organization’s first data role, there’s lots of information out there. But it’s a lot to sift through, and often the information doesn't apply to your unique context. 

That’s why we launched ResultsLab Impact Collective last year. For those who might not know, it’s an online community for nonprofit data professionals. As a part of that community, we piloted CoLab - a mastermind group where we worked through shared challenges such as building a data culture across staff, getting buy-in from key stakeholders, capturing demographic data in more equitable ways, and much more. Over the year, we engaged with over 50 inspiring changemakers, and hosted quarterly CoLabs. Through these engagements we learned a lot from the community.

Looking back, there’s a lot to celebrate. Looking forward, we’ve been reflecting on how we can continue to support nonprofit data professionals.

And we’re excited to share what’s new in the Impact Collective as we move into 2024:

Free membership: Now, people can join the community and get free access to:

📚 Resource Library: Tools and resources to support your data work. 

🙌 Peer-to-Peer support: An online space to connect with the larger network of community members.

💥 Upcoming events: Accelerate Speaker Series, Collective Coffee connects, and other roundtables on data-related topics.

Holding on CoLabs (for now): In February we wrapped our fourth CoLab. It’s been exciting to engage with many of you through these forums. We are taking some time to hone the design of these engagements to best support members and their goals. Stay tuned for when we announce the re-opening or next iteration of CoLabs!

No matter where you are at in your data journey, we’d love to welcome you. Access our resources, like our Community Voice Planner. Share your questions with other nonprofit data professionals, like, “what tools do you use for qualitative data analysis?”  

Join us and share with your networks.  

Founder & CEO

March Resources

TOOLS

From ResultsLab Impact Collective resource library:

• Participant and Community Voice Planner - Looking for ways to hand involve, consult, collaborate, or pass control over to participants and/or community members? This planner provides strategies and tools to understand the different stages along the spectrum of participant and community voice, and to help move you to the stage you aspire to operate in.

• Community Voice Organizational Assessment - Gain insights around how your organization is currently incorporating community voice into your programming. Use this assessment, organized by our Align-Capture-Transform model to identify and prioritize opportunities to embed equity into your work.

• What’s an Indicator – This is a cheat sheet that will help you understand the definition of an ‘indicator’ and a list of commonly used indicators.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Join the Impact Collective. A virtual meeting place for nonprofit changemakers like you, eager to connect, collaborate and do more with impact data to spark change. No cost to join. 

• Impact Accelerator Live Discovery Session. For nonprofits who want to build a solid foundation for their organization’s data practices, and equip their team with the skills, tools and processes to carry it forward, join us in this live session. If you’re asking… ‘What’s an Impact Accelerator? And is it right for my organization?’ This session is for you.

• We're Hiring! Check out our current open positions and please share in your networks.

  • Business Development Associate

  • Sales Development Representative

LET'S CONNECT

If you would like to contribute to content or would like us to include your resources in the future, please reach out to info@resultslab.com and we will connect with you!

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ResultsLab is a woman-owned social enterprise that propels organizations, communities, and networks to the next level of impact through quality design and effective use of data. We are reinventing impact management by providing strategic design and capacity building for data informed decision-making to organizations and networks that exist to drive change for our communities.