ImpactMapper is a data visualization platform that helps nonprofits, donors, and social investors track social impact data and share results. It allows users to turn text-based reports and data into visual trends and stories. ImpactMapper features include customizable surveys across languages, automatic visualization of survey responses, and a story repository for communications. The platform can be used for monitoring projects and grantees, evaluations, strategic planning, research, and networking different organizations working on collective goals. Several large foundations are currently using ImpactMapper to advance their measurement and transparency in funding social change.

1. How to Use Data Visualization Tools to Track Social Change
Alexandra Pittman
ImpactMapper
February 28, 2018

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7. Too much data
Lack of data transparency
and wrong data
Inefficiencies in the social impact reporting process
Lack of easy and efficient
data sharing between
grantees, donors, social
investors
The majority of data in sector is in text format

8. What data in the sector currently looks like…

9. All-in-one software platform to visualize your change, track data
trends and share the stories that matter most.

11. Data visualizations at your
fingertips
Turn text reports into usable
data trends

12. Create Custom Surveys

13. Surveys in Different Languages

14. Automatic Visualization of Survey Responses

15. Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
Donor M&E
● Grantee Monitoring of Progress
● Portfolio Analysis
● Evaluations
● Context/Trend Analysis
● Lessons Learned/Synthesis
● Board Presentations

16. Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
NonProfit M&E
● Nonprofit Monitoring of Projects
● Reporting to Donors
● Evaluations
● Strategic Plan Analysis
● Research

17. Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
Research, Evaluation and/or Meta-
Analysis
● Research
● Meta-analysis/Meta-Evaluation
● Synthesis
● Analysis of interviews, Focus groups, Most Significant Change

18. Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
Surveys
● Pre-post surveys
● Program feedback
● Conference feedback
● Perception Surveys
● Grant applications
● Grantee progress reporting

19. ‘‘
Before I was very introverted, I thought everyone could read
what had happened to me on my face, that I had been
stigmatized and marked. But through this healing program, I
have learned to swim and overcome my fear of water. I can
breathe again, I could feel the current of life surging through my
body. 20 years later, I cannot express how much this means to
me.
–Woman sharing her healing from sexual violence during the
Bosnian war (From Ecumenical Women’s Initiative)
Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
Story Repository/Communications

20. Ways to Use ImpactMapper:
Collective Analysis in Networks
● Tracking collective grantmaking
● Tracking collective indicators and impact

21. Some of the Biggest Brands Use ImpactMapper
Network Includes: Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Oak Foundation, Wellspring,
Sigrid Rausing Trust, Dietel Partners, Foundation for a Just Society, NoVo, Wallace
Global Fund, Channel Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations
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23. ‘‘“We believe ImpactMapper will be
a game changer in the field.”
- Medina Haeri at Oak Foundation

24. Join us in transforming measurement
in the social impact sector!
www.impactmapper.com
alex@impactmapper.com

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