Goals of our Mapping Funding Project

Highlight funding comittments and initiatives launched to address international funding cuts and gaps
Acknowledge the commitments made by philanthropies and other funding bodies at this critical moment
Equip nonprofits and social enterprises with insights into new potential funding avenues

Highlight innovative projects in today's funding landscape and identify emerging growth opportunities
Develop a range of products and succinct reports/analyses from the database

Skill Building Workshops for Impact Tracking

Building Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Systems

LENGTH: 2.5 hours

Our training provides an overview for your staff or your staff or partner organizations on how to make your Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work for you. We share sharing tips, best practices, and participatory methodologies on how to track your impact and ensure you are getting daat that helps you learn and make decisions. We will also impart the technical know-how in setting up a MEL system that has a gender lens and is diverse and inclusive.

The Funding Database

In 2025, ImpactMapper launched a database of free and publicly available grants and donor commitments that donors made to fill the gaps left by USAID and other bilateral donors reducing funding.

For 2026, we curated funding commitments with special attention opportunities around the topics of human rights, gender equality, democracy, social justice, peacemaking, and climate.

We are using our database creation and qualitative analysis skills on the ImpactMapper team to code funding opportunities by issues funded, regions, type of fund, type of funder, if funds are open to the public or only for current grantees, etc. so they are easily searchable and findable for interested groups.

Access is free and is part of ImpactMapper’s giving back initiatives to nonprofits and social enterprises at this critical time.

If you have funding opportunities that you would like to add, please send them to team@impactmapper.com

‍For deeper analysis on funding strategies at this moment, our CEO Alexandra Pittman, PhD published some initial reflections on donor trends based on the database in Alliance Magazine in July 2025.

Subscribe here to request free access to the database.

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Creating a Data Culture

LENGTH: 2.5 HOURS

This workshop supports your organization in creating strategic moments to bring different datastreams into internal conversations. This could involve setting up discussions around grantmaking data, board reports, annual reports, learning briefs, and other activities. The goal is to develop an action plan so that the data you collect is used throughout the year to track trends, help you make better decisions, improve practices and share learnings so you can increase the impact of the changes you are making.

Workshop Series to Define your Impact Metrics

LENGTH: 6-8 HOURS

Organizations need more than traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) to track their social impact. In order to ensure that your organization’s impact is meaningful, we lead interactive training sessions to help you define your impact, theory of change, stories of change and key impact metrics along with other KPIs.

This provides your team with the right metrics to measure and communicate your key areas of progress.

Workshop 1: Identifying the Problem, the Goals and Value Add to the Ecosystem (2 hours)

Workshop 2: Identifying Desired Outcomes and Ecosystem Level Changes (2 hours)

Workshop 3: Building your Impact Narrative and Communicating to Diverse Audiences (2 hours)

Capacity Building Trainings for Partners or Grantees

Impact Reporting Training Program for Grantees

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

This 10-week facilitated training course builds grantees' capacities on data analysis for impact reporting and communication in an interactive and engaging way. At the end of the program, each grantee will have their own impact report to share.

Who is this for: For grantees that have a dedicated MEL framework, like a theory of change or logframe metrics and data they need to analyze on an annual basis, this training program is for them. Grantees will add their data to ImpactMapper and analyze it for an annual impact report.
See pdf for a full overview of the training program.

Other Training

Training-Workshops on Gender and Diversity

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

The focus of each month’s activities is the following:

Gender, Race and Intersectionality Basics
Gender and Power Analysis
Stereotypes around representation of gender, race, and identity
How do we become more transformative in advocacy?

Forecasting the organization that we want to be in terms of diversity and inclusion

Strategizing: How do we get there?

Diversity goals and commitments

Individual commitments
Organizational commitments and action steps