Vera worked with Skoll Foundation staff and Exponent Partners—a company that helps non-profit organizations use technology to improve their operations—to design a Salesforce solution (using Community Cloud) to request and receive applications for the Skoll Award and programmatic updates from Awardees. The new platform centralizes most of the Foundation’s information about its candidates and Awardees into a “Profile” for each organization, which in turn helps Foundation staff work from a shared base of knowledge. And, instead of communicating via emailed documents, candidate and Awardee organizations can now submit updates as often as they’d like and view their Profile content directly through the platform. This important update eliminates one of the more time-consuming steps of the former process, saving Foundation staff hours of back and forth with candidates, Awardees, and each other.

Vera’s work has also helped the Skoll Foundation formalize its process for monitoring the impact of its Awardees, which allows staff to better support organizations after they have received the Skoll Award. When sharing its annual impact data with the Foundation, each Awardee can select its own indicators, to which they can then assign standardized data types. Working with Vera has introduced a new level of standardization to the Skoll Foundation’s impact monitoring, which helps staff better analyze Awardees’ data, while still providing Awardees the flexibility to enter information using different types of currencies, metrics, and more.

Key Features: Secure cloud, Real-time data reporting and visualization, Process automation, Donor management, Salesforce Community, Streamlined UI