How a data strategy and positive data culture can help grantmakers get the most out of their data. As the needs of society continue to outweigh the available grants, it is more important now than ever before that funding be distributed strategically. Grantmakers are increasingly thinking about how they can use data to maximise their […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Programme facilitator, Dirk Slater, share insights from the final workshop of the programme, sharing what a data strategy is and how to develop one using our Data Strategy Canvas template. You can read about how […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop on February 24, 2021.  The ultimate goal of the Data […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights from the group discussion on February 10, 2021 about grantmakers privilege and how to overcome confirmation bias. “Many of the processes in which we collect data […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights about responsible data use from the workshop on January 27, 2021.    Responsible data What is meant by responsible data? Data is power and with power […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares tips on building a ‘data culture’ to enable better use of data in funding organisations. The ‘Data Champions’ are a group of people from different UK funding […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, we share insights from the group about public datasets, including which are the most useful and how to get the most from them.  There are many datasets out there that […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Having recently launched our third programme, facilitator Dirk Slater takes the opportunity to pause and reflect. In this blog, he highlights some of the common data challenges, and offers tips shared by the Data Champions […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring a cohort of funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In the first month, we focused on data workflows and collecting data. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares the learnings and highlights from the group sessions.     In […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the second of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with data […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November 2020, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the first of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with […]

The words ‘data’ and ‘strategy’ can seem intimidating when used on their own. Thinking about the two together can give many people, myself included, a headache. When we started to talk about the idea of ‘data leadership’ for our Data Champions programme, run with Dirk Slater from FabRiders, we thought we needed to tackle the topic […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Here, we speak with two participants from our most recent cohort about what they’ve learned and enjoyed during the programme, along with the data challenges they’re grappling with at the moment. Sharon Gollan […]

To make the best use and impacts from data, organisations often need a culture shift. We talk a lot about the benefits of developing a data culture, but what does that mean? Here, Rachel Rank sets out the characteristics and how grantmakers can embed them in their own organisations. A group discussion at the launch […]