PROJECT OVERVIEW
Region: Global
System: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Sector: Entrepreneurship, Community Development, Education, Environmental Sustainability, Health, Human Rights
THE ORGANIZATION

THE CHALLENGE
In the past, staff received Skoll Award candidate applications and Awardee reports as Word documents via email, and kept track of organizations’ finances separately in Excel spreadsheets. To share new information about candidates and Awardees among each other, staff members frequently sent email updates. Although the Foundation already used Salesforce, it only stored select details about candidates and Awardees (e.g. contact and grant information). Without a central and easily-accessible home for its incoming SASE data, it became time-consuming and difficult to maintain a shared base of knowledge among staff. The Skoll Foundation was also missing a comprehensive, easy-to-use tool to track the social impact of its Awardees over time.
“[Prior to the platform] it was the epic swiss cheese of data. At best, we knew some of this information for some years for some grantees. I cannot overstate how dramatically this has transformed our practice from the Swiss-cheese operation to where we now are.”
Ehren Reed, Skoll’s Director of Analysis & Insight
THE SOLUTION

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
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