How to Display Your Data to Get 100% Buy In
Reporting on your mission is essential when trying to understand the outcomes of your efforts and telling that story to funders. Of course, as a nonprofit, you’re focused on serving individuals and...
View ArticleSocial Solutions Drives Significant Impact by Helping Local Austin Nonprofit...
Technology and Data Insights Empower NPOs in Unprecedented Times to Better Serve People in their Communities AUSTIN, TX – January 5, 2021 – Social Solutions Global, the leading provider of digital...
View Article12 Types of Data that Your Social Good Organization Should be Tracking
Data is a crucial part of telling your organization’s story and proving outcomes. Stakeholders and service recipients alike demand transparency and evidence that programs positively impact both...
View ArticleData by Design: Collaboration and Data Sharing as a Force for Progress for...
Collaboration and data sharing as a force for progress for multidimensional social programs Data can empower social services organizations to understand how programs are affecting participants, but how...
View ArticleUsing Storytelling and Data in Nonprofit Fundraising to Yield Results
Using either storytelling or data to display your nonprofit’s outcomes is great – but not using both means you’re missing an opportunity in your fundraising! Using one or the other can alienate donors...
View ArticleHow to Display Your Data to Get 100% Buy In
Reporting on your mission is essential when trying to understand the outcomes of your efforts and telling that story to funders. Of course, as a nonprofit, you’re focused on serving individuals and...
View ArticleData By Design: On the Fundamental and Profound Difference Between Output and...
We’re excited to share that we are starting a new series on the blog. Our Data By Design series will include deep dives from our data team here at Social Solutions and a “behind the scenes” look at how...
View ArticleFoundation Reporting Study: What Multiservice Funders Want
Grants from foundations and charitable trusts are an important part of any nonprofit’s balanced funding portfolio. According to the latest Giving USA Annual Report on Philanthropy, grants from...
View ArticleTeam Exercise: 5 Questions to Break Down Nonprofit Silos
Data plays an important part in how your organization is run, but oftentimes, it can be hard to connect dots. When you look at one piece instead of the full picture, you isolate data, leaving gaps in...
View ArticlePrisoner Reentry: How Technology Can Improve the Success of Your Programs
With incarceration rates in the United States continuing to rise, nonprofits must do everything they can to help justice-involved individuals successfully reenter the community. These individuals face...
View ArticleSharing Another Milestone in Our Collaboration with Ballmer Group
Today, we’re thrilled to announce two incredible organizations as the latest recipients of matching grants using funding from Ballmer Group. Kansas City Local Investment Commission (LINC) and St. Louis...
View ArticleGood News for a Great Cause: Kansas City School District Enters...
Not many organizations can say they’re a growing technology company that’s also making a difference in people’s lives, driving impact, and moving the needle in the social good sector. I’m very proud to...
View ArticleSharing Some Big News from Social Solutions and Ballmer Group
Today, we’re thrilled to share a major milestone thanks to our investment from Ballmer Group: Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) will officially be the first district to participate in our data-sharing...
View ArticleData-Driven Storytelling for Nonprofits: Five Tips Your Organization Needs
When an author writes a book, they don’t begin writing without doing their research. They gather data on a subject first and use that information to create a narrative. For nonprofits, sharing stories...
View ArticleUsing Data to Grow Your New Nonprofit
Starting a new nonprofit is an admirable feat — noticing a need within your community and rising to the challenge to make a change is a big deal! One way to grow your new nonprofit’s presence is to...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics For Nonprofits: Change for The Better
For decades, nonprofits have relied on filing cabinets, Excel spreadsheets, and other manual processes to run their organizations. Casework inevitably stacks up. Reports remain untouched until someone...
View ArticleAlexa, What Does Technology for Nonprofits Look Like in 2019?
It’s hard to believe how far technology has come in the last 10 years. In just a decade, applications like Spotify, Venmo, and Uber (to name a few) have become industry leaders and household names. We...
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