Data maturity resources

Our Nonprofit Datafolk Club gathered in February to discuss impact measurement in nonprofits. During the discussion, many had useful tips and advice to share. Here’s a writeup of the discussion.

In a salute to Saku Chandrasekara, 2023 Great British Bake Off contestant and one of Data Orchard’s founding directors, here Sian Basker shares our new creative resource for unlocking hearts and minds around data.

Recently, our Nonprofit Datafolk Club gathered to discuss AI in nonprofits. What are people using it for? What are the concerns about using it? What are the barriers? Here’s a writeup of the discussion.

Following recent analysis by the team into data roles and salaries in the nonprofit sector, we summarise some of the big issues nonprofits need to consider when thinking about how to resource data roles.

Orchestras Live recently completed their second data maturity assessment, with impressive results. Here, we tell their story towards mastering data maturity and why we think they’ve been successful with data.

In June’s Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop, we discussed the topic of data storage with an excellent group of data folk. Read Hannah’s writeup for a summary of the discussion about how nonprofits store data and wishes for the future.

In September, our Nonprofit Datafolk Club spent some time unpacking the results of our report, released in July - State of the Sector: Data maturity in the Nonprofit Sector 2023. Here’s some of the questions and reflections they had.

In May, our Datafolk Club focus was on pursuing a data career in the nonprofit sector, and we had some excellent discussions with folk ranging from data analysts and scientists to managers and heads of data. Hannah Khwaja shares the key learning points.

Our 2023 State of the Sector report analyses the latest data from users of our online Data Maturity Assessment tool to see what it tells us about the state of data maturity in the not-for-profit sector..

We offer a crowd-sourced list of organisations that offer data support to social sector organisations.

Each month we bring together data folk from different nonprofits to discuss a particular aspect of data. These workshops are fun, relaxed and interactive. Last month we asked people to consider data culture. Ben Proctor summarises notes from the workshop.

We've been using a simple tool to have conversations about data and analytics for a little while now. We wanted to share it because we think it's useful and because we are interested if there are changes or improvements that could be made.

We run online workshops every month aimed at data folk in nonprofits. These workshops aim to bring people together to discuss matters of common concern and to share their experiences. For the September workshop we invited people to bring and share their experiences and perspectives around data skills.

Our latest State of the Sector report analyses data from 2021 users of our Data Maturity Assessment tool to see what it tells us about the state of data maturity in the not-for-profit sector.

Katie Eastaugh, Chief Executive of The Cart Shed, has taken her organisation on a 4-year data maturity journey. Having just completed their 5th data maturity assessment, she reflects with us on the journey so far.

We ran the a workshop on "The greatest data strategy ever". We divided the 15 attendees into three breakout groups and asked each group to discuss a series of questions. This post summarises their answeres to those questions.

On 27th April our Co-Chief Executive: Sian Basker was joined by Jenny Andrew, Head of Data at the Chartered Institute of Physiotherapy for our latest webinar on data maturity. They discussed data maturity in general, and how you can undertake an assessment in a larger organisation and make best use of the information it gives you.