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Impact Data Chat: Feminist Philanthropy

November 5, 2023

We held another Impact Data Chat focused on how women’s and feminist philanthropy on feminist and gender equality philanthropy for social impact! Here is a list of resources that is being constantly updated.

Four Ways We Can Leverage Text Data for Social Justice and Good

October 31, 2023

As a sector, we are sitting on mountains of unanalyzed data, the majority of which is text. We must unlock insights hidden in text data to be successful and drive funding to the most impactful solutions. But how do we do that and at scale in secure ways?

Social Norms Challenged by Feminist and Women’s Rights Organizations in Tanzania, Haiti and Bangladesh

October 6, 2023

When local feminist and women’s rights organizations start mobilizing communities to defend human and environmental rights, they challenge deeply rooted patriarchal social norms.

3 Examples Highlighting How Investing in Women and Feminist Organizations Tackles Multiple SDGs

September 22, 2023

There has been a growing desire to address the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in a holistic way, looking for the levers that unlock progress towards multiple goals instead of only one. In this sense, investing in women's and feminist organizations can create a positive ripple effect.

Impact Data Chat: AI and Social Impact Tracking

May 30, 2023

AI tools can help users be more efficient in many tasks, and that is why they have exploded in popularity. However, we have not spoken enough about the ethical and security issues in our sector. This blog shares conversations and tools from the last Impact Data Chat focused on AI for social impact tracking and sustainability.

The Key to Change: Why funders must support women’s and feminist movement-building to achieve the SDGs

May 4, 2023

Women’s and feminist movements and organizations have played an outsized and crucial role in advancing progress on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s shared plan to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet by 2030. These groups’ contributions have not only pushed forward SDG5—which seeks to achieve gender equality and eliminate violence against women and girls—but are also fostering systemic, long-term changes that influences all aspects of the 2030 agenda. ImpactMapper launches a new report detailing progress made by women´s and feminist movements and organizations.

Reflections on the recent IPCC report on climate change

March 21, 2023

Reflections on the recent IPCC report on climate change

We Must Urgently Prioritize the Sustainability of Impact

March 12, 2023

It is critical that we reimagine the way we talk about, measure and define social impact

Impact Data Chat Series: Year in Review

December 21, 2022

At our Impact Data Chat Series in 2022, we brought together hundreds of people in the philanthropic, nonprofit, investor, corporate and evaluation communities. Check out all the resources shared here.

Resources for Visualizing Social Impact Data

October 12, 2022

Our Impact Data chat in October focused on sharing recommendations around data visualizations for social impact. We had a rich conversation across sectors and organizations. Evaluators, researchers and program officers shared new innovations, visuals, and experiences related to using data to visualize social justice, human rights and climate justice outcomes. Below we share a list of the resources shared in that session.