Turn your network's data into lasting community change.
The shared-measurement platform United Ways use to collect partner data, manage performance with Results-Based Accountability, and communicate impact with credibility — all in one connected system.
Trusted by United Ways worldwide — and built with input from leading United Way customers.
United Way Worldwide
United Way of Central Iowa
Berkshire United Way
Central & NE Connecticut
Waco-McLennan County
Northwest VermontFor United Ways, data infrastructure is mission infrastructure — the foundation for stronger decisions, credible donor communication, and real community results.
Meaningful work, scattered across the network
A single United Way may fund partners across education, health, financial stability, housing, workforce, early childhood, and basic needs — each with different reporting capacity, tools, and definitions. The result is a familiar bind for community impact teams.
No way to see the whole picture
Partners are doing real work, but there's no reliable way to aggregate performance, compare measures, or show how separate grants add up to community results.
Time lost to spreadsheets
Staff spend hours collecting spreadsheets, reconciling narrative reports, and preparing board and donor updates — without ever having time to actually use the information.
Reporting instead of learning
When measurement is treated as compliance, leaders lose the chance to interpret trends, support partners, and improve strategy where it counts most.
An outcomes infrastructure fixes this — a common operating system for community impact, giving your network a shared framework, consistent data routines, and a way to interpret results together.
Collect it, manage it, communicate it
Clear Impact translates Results-Based Accountability from a framework into a repeatable operating practice — three tools that work as one, under a single RBA foundation.
Compyle
Intake forms, surveys, assessments, referrals, case notes, and longitudinal outcomes — so partners collect reliable data that fits their own service model, then flows into performance insight.
Scorecard
One place to organize community results, indicators, performance measures, strategies, narratives, trendlines, and action plans — the working system where partners review progress and decide what happens next.
Showcase
Turn selected data and narratives into accessible, visual dashboards for boards, donors, partners, and the community — sharing meaningful progress without exposing sensitive participant data.
Compyle collects the data · Scorecard turns it into managed performance · Showcase communicates it — all framed by Results-Based Accountability.
Why Results-Based Accountability fits the United Way role
RBA clarifies the difference between two levels of work that are easy to confuse and costly to conflate — and shows how program performance rolls up into population-level change.
The whole community
Whether children are ready for school, families are financially stable, or residents are healthy and safe. Community-level results depend on many partners working together.
A program or agency
Whether a specific program delivers services well and participants are better off. Each partner is accountable for the people it serves.
Funded partners answer three questions
How much did we do?
How well did we do it?
Is anyone better off?
"Turn the Curve" — from a trend to action
Reporting a measure is the start, not the end. Partners read the trend, ask why, and decide what to do next — then repeat.
Seven categories that earn their place
A strong system doesn't collect every possible data point. It selects the measures most useful for accountability, learning, decisions, partner support, and public communication.
Community results & indicators
The broad conditions of well-being the community wants to improve — school readiness, stable housing, financial stability.
Program reach
How many people, families, or neighborhoods received support — the starting point for understanding impact.
Service quality
How well services were delivered — timeliness, completion, engagement, follow-through, accessibility.
Participant outcomes
Whether people are better off after support — school readiness, employment, financial capability, safety, connection.
Disaggregated measures
Whether outcomes differ by race, ethnicity, age, gender, geography, language, disability, or income.
Partner & network health
How well the collective system functions — participation, data quality, referral coordination, alignment.
Resource alignment
How dollars, staff, volunteers, and grants connect to strategy — so investment matches community priorities.
The guiding principle
Every measure should have a clear purpose — inform strategy, demonstrate accountability, support partners, or reveal disparities.
What United Ways are learning from the network
Read these as learning cases, not identical templates — each United Way adapts its system to local strategy, partner capacity, and community priorities.
Organized its United to Thrive strategy around essential needs, early childhood, education, economic opportunity, and health — using Scorecard so funded partners enter data on shared focus areas for performance review, impact reporting, and communication.
Used Scorecard for grantee performance management, Global Results Framework reporting, and backbone support. Having partners enter their own data kept them engaged in evaluation and gave them information to use all year for grants and program improvement.
Funded partners had been reporting in different formats. Clear Impact helped build an RBA framework, train 32 partners, and stand up Scorecards — moving from non-uniform reporting to a system tied to results and indicators in under a year.
Built Scorecards around four impact areas — education, health, financial stability, and safety-net services — so partners update their own information and aggregated numbers surface in Impact Framework Scorecards, with plans to disaggregate by race, gender, and ZIP code.
Used RBA and Scorecard to support strategy for a specific population — expanding opportunities for youth disconnected from education and employment — to clarify goals, track progress, and foster collaboration.
Every one of these started with a conversation about results, partners, and a roadmap that fit their capacity and timeline.
Transparency strengthens trust
United Ways depend on trust from donors, boards, community members, public agencies, and partners — and data transparency is central to earning it. It's not about publishing sensitive data; it's about making meaningful information visible.
- Donors & boards gain confidence that contributions connect to a serious strategy for community results.
- Public agencies can align with community indicators and population-level priorities.
- Funded partners see how their work contributes to a larger agenda.
- Smaller nonprofits gain access to shared infrastructure — communicating their work with greater professionalism.
Partners keep their own service models, but shared definitions and one measurement system let the United Way aggregate the whole picture.
A practical implementation roadmap
A staged change process you can adapt to your capacity and timeline — from a trained team to a continuous-improvement cycle.
Identify & Train
Build the implementation team's skills across RBA, Scorecard, Compyle, and Showcase.
Align
Define community results, priority strategies, and partner roles — a shared results map.
Design
Select indicators and measures; separate population from program measures.
Configure
Build Scorecards, Compyle forms, and partner reporting templates.
Train Partners
RBA training, software onboarding, and guidance on data quality and interpretation.
Pilot
Start with one impact area or a manageable partner group; refine before scaling.
Scale
Expand to more partners and impact areas while supporting smaller organizations.
Learn & Review
Establish regular Turn the Curve conversations that turn reporting into action.
Ready to strengthen your community impact?
See what shared measurement could look like for your United Way. Let's talk about your results, your partners, and a roadmap that fits your capacity and timeline.
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