At Data Orchard we say goodbye and thank you to our former Chair Nancy James and welcome her successor Suraj Vadgama and new Vice Chair Noreen Blanluet.
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Our Co-CEO Mads reflects on Datawise London’s great new report on small charity data journeys and how we support nonprofits to navigate data swamps.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for November. What mastering data maturity looks like, carbon reduction, latest events and more…
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Earlier this year we carried out a carbon footprint assessment. One of the key tasks in our plan was to identify carbon reduction and biodiversity restoration schemes that we could contribute to to offset our emissions. Here’s an update on the two projects we’ve chosen to support for 2023-26.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for October. Benchmarking housing organisations, diversity in data, courses, events, and more...
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Following a recent report from the Housing Ombudsman calling for housing providers to benchmark themselves against others in the sector, Ben Proctor looks at what our own research tells us about levels of data maturity in the social housing sector.
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Our data analyst Hannah Khwaja reflects on her learnings from the discussions held at ‘Diversity in data: Breaking the single source of truth’ earlier this year.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for September. Our new strategy, a focus on skills and careers, latest events and more…
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Sian Basker on why this month marks a major milestone in Data Orchard's life. We're celebrating our 10th birthday and launching our 2023-26 strategy with renewed focus and excitement.
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Over the last year Ben Proctor has been publishing a weekly newsletter listing data-related vacancies in nonprofits. Having gathered and analysed 12 months of data, he looks at what stories it tells about about jobs, recruitment and skills in the sector.
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Leaders and CEOs from Wales, Scotland and England joined us on our first open Data for Nonprofit Leaders course, which concluded in May. Facilitator Ben Proctor reflects on feedback from participants and what went well.
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We are delighted to have been featured in the NatWest SE100 2023 list of the UK's top 100 social enterprises.
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We’ve published our latest State of the Sector report into levels of data maturity in the nonprofit sector. Read the report and watch the launch webinar on demand here.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for June 2023. Introducing our new outsourced data team service, resources on ‘White and other defaults’ and ‘Data science in nonprofit organisations’, plus all the latest news and events.
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Last month we had the privilege of hosting Edafe Onerhime to give us her inspirational talk about ‘White and other defaults’. Here, our Business and Sales Analyst Libby Harkins reflects on her takeaways.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for May. Our next State of the Sector report coming soon, a new theory FOR change, getting leadership buy-in, plus lots more…
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We unveil our new, more focused impact story, and share some of the key elements of its creation, reflecting on the rich experience and value gained from the process.
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#Data4good tips, tools and tales for April. UK Gov embraces our framework, choosing a survey tool, plus lots more...
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A recording of our panel discussion ‘Assessing data maturity in the public sector’ that took place on the 19th April.
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Libby Harkins, our Business and Sales Analyst, has written about indigenous data, why governance is so important, and what learnings we can apply to non-indigenous data.
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