Locating your organisation on the Data Maturity Framework is the basis of developing a data strategy and starting the journey to improving data in your organisation. Using the data maturity assessment tool repeatedly to track progress is the best way to keep up momentum on your improvement journey.
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In November we held a webinar 'The Joy and Pain of Data: A CEO's perspective', where three CEOs presented their data stories. We didn’t record the Q&A that followed, but it was so interesting we have pulled out some of the key points in this post.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for December. Taking a look at Data Orchard’s festive events and plans for the new year. Plus nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Data Map Wales is a recent Welsh Government service that allows people to search and visualise geographic data about Wales.
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For six months now I’ve been running a small side project. I collate a weekly list of data vacancies in nonprofits. Since it’s been six months and I work for a data social enterprise, I thought I would have a look at the data.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for November. Looking back over the year that was 2021-22 for Data Orchard, our upcoming special webinar for CEOs, and what data folk think about data culture. Plus events and other nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Our Co-Chief Executive Sian Basker reflects on the year that was 2021-22 for Data Orchard.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for October. It's been annual review/AGM time, and this has caused us to reflect lots this month on the particular challenges (and joys) data can bring to not-for-profits. Plus events and other nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian Basker, reflects on every CEO's very special relationship with data, especially at annual report writing time... The love and joy, the pain and frustration of wrestling all that data into the story your organisation wants to tell about its past, but also, its future.
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We’re looking for new board members to strengthen Data Orchard’s governance to ensure we deliver our mission as a social enterprise. Do you have the right skills and experience to help?
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A recording of the webinar we delivered on our Mapio Cymru project as part of DataConnect22. DataConnect22 was a week-long event organised by the Central Digital and Data Office and the Government Data Quality Hub.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for September, featuring: The launch of our new report on the state of data maturity in our sector, a look at one charity’s 4-year data maturity journey, news, resources and more…
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On 14th September 2022 our Co-Chief Executive Sian Basker launched our State of the Sector Report 2021 with a presentation of the key findings.
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Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian - who authored our latest State of the Sector report - distills down some of the key findings, insights and - importantly - lessons that not-for-profit leaders can take from the research if they want to improve data maturity in their organisation.
Read More#Data4good tips, tools and tales for July, featuring: an inspirational case study about a Liverpool charity that improved how they measure their impact, our thoughts on skills in the sector, and an invitation to a webinar launching our latest research into data maturity in nonprofits. Enjoy!
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Research shows that data skills are a relative weakness across the nonprofit sector. Our Co-Chief Executive, Madeleine Spinks, and Digital Innovation Director, Ben Proctor, reflect on recent research findings and on how we can address skills gaps.
Read More#Data4good tips, tools and tales for June, featuring: our latest Data Maturity Assessment Impact Report, a case study of the Scottish Government experience of building data maturity, and data strategy resources. Plus events and other nonprofit data, inspiration and news from the sector.
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As we publish our latest Impact Report on data maturity assessments, our Data and Digital Innovation Director Ben Proctor takes a moment to recap what data maturity (and data maturity assessments) are all about.
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Organisations that used Data Orchard's Data Maturity Assessment Tool learned more about data maturity, had better discussions in their organisation and were almost always successful at securing resources for data according to a report published today.
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We're waving a very fond farewell to some of our colleagues and board members this month.
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