4 Ways Clear Impact Unlimited Suite Supports the Data Management Needs of Partnerships

2. Eliminate the administrative lift of data collection for small and large teams.

Data management can be a massive headache if partnerships don’t have the right tools for the job. Some challenges associated with data management involve consistency, accuracy, and relevancy. Here are a few problems that can come up:

• • Collecting data from different sources (e.g., collecting data from surveys vs. face-to-face interviews) makes reconciling data in various formats difficult.
  • Processing data manually can be extremely time-consuming and lead to inaccuracies, especially for small teams with limited capacity.
  • Too much data, combined with poor organization, makes data harder to prioritize and analyze.
  • Ineffective tools don’t allow organizations to collect the precise data they need to understand their performance and make sound funding decisions.

Here’s how Unlimited Suite addresses data management challenges to improve data accuracy, consistency, and relevancy.

Compyle allows organizations and partnerships to collect any data they need about people (or partner organizations) and organize it for accessibility. Partners can create custom data collection forms for case management, applications, program evaluation surveys, and more. The system is highly customizable, allowing organizations to collect the exact types of information they need. 

Data collection is just the first step. Compyle takes this further and allows custom data organization to increase navigability and accessibility. Navigability and accessibility are vital because they enable people to quickly find the information they need to do their jobs effectively. 

If you need to look at all people across your programs who answered your last survey, you can do it. If you need to access all your partner organizations in one location, you can do it. If you need to see how program participants of different races are faring, you can do it. If you can dream it…if you need to collect it….if you want to see it…you can do it with Compyle! 

Compyle allows organizations to capture data about program participants, donors, staff, community members, and partners and organize individuals into unlimited groups for further analysis.

Data templates are a small team’s best friend – they help groups save time and reduce errors associated with manual data entry! Combining Scorecard and Compyle into Clear Impact Suite eliminates the administrative lift of data collection for those responsible for data entry. It allows teams to set up templates (surveys, forms, performance dashboards, etc.) AND allows more parties to participate and play a role in data collection. 

Finally, using Compyle and Scorecard together saves time for users with automatic data feeds. The two systems are perfectly integrated, eliminating the need to manually cross-walk data from one system to the other. Organizations can collect and organize their data in Compyle and instantly transfer it into Scorecard for further analysis and strategic planning (if they desire). 

3. Build the Capacity of Smaller Grassroots Organizations

Unlimited Suite helps build the capacity of smaller, grassroots organizations that may not have the means to purchase data collection and reporting software.

Backbone support organizations, especially funders, hold great power. The greatest use of this power is to help partners reach their destinies. Funders have political power and can operate on a macro scale. They are an important part of the story but not the only part. In contrast, grantees do most of the on-the-ground work to lead partnerships to their destination. Why? They’re the ones with the more nuanced and intimate knowledge of each landscape they traverse. 

Funders are uniquely positioned to provide tools and resources their partners need but can’t afford. By providing their partners access to Clear Impact Suite, they’re allowing them to engage more effectively in the six essential data management tasks – this benefits the funder, the partnership, and the communities they serve. 

Unlimited Suite allows funders to build the capacity of smaller, grassroots organizations that may not have the budget to purchase data collection and reporting software independently. Investments like these help create efficiency and effectiveness in organizations with a small staff working hard to move the needle in their communities. For example, grantees and partners can use Clear Impact Scorecard for their internal performance management across all programming, creating capacity building across the entire organization.

4. Make Better Decisions.

Access to relevant data can help funders and partners improve decision-making to make a greater impact. 

There are three main ways that using Clear Impact Suite across an entire network can help improve decision-making:

1. 1. Integrating the two systems improves data quality and accuracy.
   2. Clear Impact Scorecard allows backbones and funders to aggregate data across similar programming to see progress on strategies.
   3. When all partners use the same data management systems, this increases consistency and alignment across various factors.

Make Better Decisions with Scorecard

If you’re a funder, you can provide Scorecard to your grantees, and they can track any mandatory or optional performance measures you want to see. Then, you can easily aggregate the data from partners providing similar programs to see and share how your overall strategies work. Additionally, the Scorecard’s built-in “Turn the Curve Planning” tool allows partnerships to create data-based action plans for their community Indicators. Individual organizations can also use the tool to develop performance improvement plans. These plans can be embedded on websites for reporting to funders and the community. You can see an example of an embedded Scorecard below (use the scroll bar on the right to view the whole Scorecard).

The above graphic is an example of a Turn the Curve Action Plan, developed by Vibrant Hawai’i, using the Clear Impact Scorecard. After presenting this Scorecard at the Measurable Equity 2021 Virtual Conference, Vibrant Hawai’i won first place (by attendee vote) in Clear Impact’s Racial Equity Turn the Curve Poster Contest. You can see more examples of Turn the Curve Action Plans in Scorecard here.

Scorecard tools like Turn the Curve Action Planning provide grantees and partners with a consistent way of sharing performance data and action plans, allowing funders to make better decisions on funding allocations. With performance measure aggregation abilities, backbone organizations can easily evaluate individual and network-wide performance and impact. This allows them to engage in more effective dialogue with their partners about what’s working and what might need to change. 

Make Better Decisions with Compyle

Using Compyle across partnerships improves data quality, so funders know grantees are collecting data in the same consistent manner. Organizations need data from more than one survey to be effective. To evaluate and improve their performance, they must be able to see how their data changes over time. 

Unlike most other surveying and data collection tools, Compyle provides analytics over time. Multi-instance surveys (the ability to send the same survey multiple times to the same person) allow partners to see changes in life circumstances, attitudes, skills, and behaviors, as program participants move through programs. Tools like these are essential to evaluating program quality. 

Make Better Decisions with Scorecard and Compyle Together

Compyle directly feeds program performance data into Scorecard. The two platforms combined additionally automate the performance measurement process. This integration means partnerships spend less time and energy on cumbersome data management tasks. Less manual data entry also means organizations and coalitions can improve data accuracy.

4. Recap and Demo Signup

Here’s a quick recap of some things your partnership can do with Unlimited Suite:

• Collect as much data as you need (about people and organizations) to run your partnership efficiently.
• Create custom forms (applications, intake forms, surveys, evaluations) to capture the precise data you need about individuals.
• Organize all your client and partner data in custom formats that make sense and help you achieve your goals.
• Eliminate the administrative lift of data collection for small and large teams.
• Automate the performance measurement process to save time and increase accuracy.
• Analyze how your data changes over time and disaggregate your data so that you can design effective and equitable strategies. 
• Present data reports to funders, stakeholders, and the public to increase transparency, build trust, and attract funding from more sources. 

Demo Signup

If you’re interested in seeing all that Unlimited Suite can do, sign up for a private, custom demo with one of our friendly staff.