Using Data for Charitable Impact: Innovative Reporting

Plinth was launched with the aim to get charities more funding.

Despite charities running impactful programmes, all this hard work is too often recorded on siloed spreadsheets, sharepoints, google docs or loose pieces of paper.

Plinth’s first mission was to help charities to demonstrate their impact; to do this, we created a free case management platform to monitor attendees and report on outcomes of services.

Through these masterclasses we will discuss why collecting your charity data is important, how you can showcase your impact through your data and how to use this data to extend your outreach in your community.

Innovative Reporting (Session 2 of 3)

In this class we will be using free tools to create your own Discover page. Pulling information from the number of services you offer, the areas people come from to benefit from your programmes and the outcomes you have been able to achieve, we can create an URL that quickly highlights your impact to funders. Please bring some data about your organisation and we’ll help you make an URL that you can share with prospective funders.

Why attend?

To learn how to use your data to further your mission

• Organising your data so able to focus on service delivery not admin
• Learning how to report your impact back to funders
• Use your data to make better decisions and tailor your services

Who is this for?

• Small charities
• Medium sized charities
• CIC
• Grass roots organisations
• Organisations with data that they need to communicate to funders

3 sessions

Our masterclass are made up of 3 sessions run over 3 months. While you can attend them individually, we recommend coming to them all for the best experience.

1. Why Collecting Data is Important (Mon 03 June 18:00)
2. Innovative Reporting (Mon 24 June 18:00)
3. Extending Your Community Outreach (Mon 15 July 18:00)

Workshop leaders

Ceci and Jess are Partnership Leads at Plinth.
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Ceci founded a charity society helping rough sleepers whilst at Edinburgh University, where she graduated with a degree in History. In the pandemic Ceci also started a small business, creating and selling illustrated poems to raise money for NHS Charities Together. Ceci strongly believes that the right support can give people struggling through hardship the opportunity to turn their lives around. Ceci grew up in North Yorkshire and now lives in East London.

Jess moved to London from the US in order to study Social Policy at LSE, writing about segregation and housing discrimination in her home town of Milwaukee. And after hiking the length of the USA Jess decided she needed another challenge and joined Plinth. Self-described government nerd, she loves talking about the best ways to drive positive change in society and losing in office typing races. When not being the best ambassador for the state of Wisconsin, Jess can be found somewhere around East London.

SPACE4 Masterclasses

SPACE4 is part of Outlandish, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for progressive causes . We are interested in tech for good, progressive economics, and social issues. We provide co-working, meeting, and events space, primarily to social innovators and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of networking and training events around these topics.

This workshop is part of an ongoing programme of masterclasses to upskill our network and community in Islington and beyond.

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