Analytics at your fingertips: How nonprofits can get the most out of Salesforce Reports and Dashboards
Effective data management has become an increasingly significant determiner of organizational success. While many nonprofits are now collecting data regularly –90% according to a report by NonprofitHub and EveryAction – many remain unsure of what to do with it after it’s been recorded. Salesforce.org’s recent Nonprofit Trends report shows that fewer than half of nonprofits […]
Workshop Recap: Using Technology to Monitor Programs and Amplify Impact
Last month, Vera Solutions co-led ANDE East & Southeast Asia Metrics Learning Lab Series #3: From Inputs to Insights – Using Technology to Monitor Programs and Amplify Impact. Read a recap of the workshop, including an overview of the 4 pillars of impact measurement, a look into AVPN’s journey implementing Salesforce for impact management, takeaways […]
Tackling the Healthcare Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa One Nurse at a Time: How GAIA Uses Salesforce as a Capacity Building Tool
Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) implements a grassroot strategy to help those affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in the most remote and underserved areas of Africa. The organization was founded in 2000 in response to the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. Taking a bottom-up approach to disease control and prevention, GAIA works closely […]
How WAVE Leverages Salesforce to Help Close the Skills Gap for Young Jobseekers in West Africa
West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE) is helping West African youth take their first steps on the road to a successful career by providing them with the vocational training and guidance they need to secure a job in an unwelcoming economy. WAVE was founded in 2013 by three MBA students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education […]
Vera to Present at MERL Tech DC 2017
Vera Solutions will be attending the 2017 MERL Tech Conference taking place September 7-8 in Washington, D.C. This annual event provides an opportunity for attendees – ranging from funders and program implementers to technology providers and other development practitioners – to showcase their work and discuss the future of technology tools for monitoring, evaluation, research, […]
MERL Tech 2016: Whether Big Data or Small Data, it Needs to be Good Data
Vera’s Allison Blajda and Alan Guedes recently attended the 2016 MERL Tech conference in Washington, DC. The event provided an opportunity for attendees – ranging from funders and program implementers to technology providers and other development practitioners – to showcase their work and discuss the future of technology tools for monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. […]
Using the power of tech for M&E: Aditi’s Road to Vera
Aditi Patel is a Consultant at Vera Solutions, based in Mumbai and en route to Geneva. Before Vera, Aditi received her Master’s degree specializing in Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Outside from her interests in data and development, Aditi loves good books, travel, and knitting while watching TV. […]
UN General Assembly, Social Good Summit Highlight Tech-Driven Development
Alyssa Heinze is a Marketing & Communications Intern at Vera Solutions. A junior at Dartmouth College, Alyssa studies Government and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to her work at Vera, she studied abroad at Hyderabad Central University and interned for a women’s empowerment NGO in Kathmandu, Nepal. This year’s Social Good Summit focused on […]
Lwala Community Alliance Employs Salesforce to Understand and Serve Their Community
Lwala Community Alliance (Lwala) is a community-led innovator in rural western Kenya, proving that when communities lead, change is drastic and lasting. Lwala was founded by Milton and Fred Ochieng’ – brothers from our community – who catalyzed neighbors to build the area’s first hospital. Lwala co-runs this community hospital with the Ministry of Health […]
Reach Incorporated: Collaborating to Raise Reading Levels
Washington D.C. public education institutions lag behind national standards of excellence for on-time completion, literacy rates, and other key indicators. Eighty-three percent of public school students in the city enter the ninth grade reading below their grade level. Literacy problems do not spring up suddenly; achieving grade-level proficiency in third grade makes a crucial difference […]
