Survey Creation and Analysis:
Tips and Tricks
Join the New Online Training Series on July 2025!
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.
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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.
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This two-hour introductory course covers tips and tricks for creating a strong survey design. We will engage in practical exercises on how to best design a new survey for outcome tracking and you will have the opportunity to design a sample survey with your peers in the course, strengthening learning and knowledge sharing. We will end the session with a brief training on how to create a survey in the ImpactMapper software.
This two-hour course covers basic knowledge on how to analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data trends in surveys, visualize and interpret survey results. We will also discuss key tips on communicating results and engage in practical analysis and communication exercises with your peers. We will end the session with a brief training on how to code qualitative data in surveys and how to create charts and visuals in the ImpactMapper software.
Pioneering Solutions for Impact Tracking and Social Change
Named an 'innovative tech founder' by Entrepreneur Magazine, Alexandra Pittman, PhD, stands at the forefront of impact tracking, storytelling, and social justice, human rights, and sustainability reporting. As the Founder and CEO of ImpactMapper, she and her team have developed a groundbreaking software tool empowering donors, nonprofits, corporates, and impact investors to track, visualize and optimize their social impact funding and activities. Wanting to create a deeper impact on the corporate space, Pittman also created the HERO Index, a tool that tracks corporate performance on key aspects of human rights and sustainability. She is also the Founder of Havn Hus, a retreat center for leaders and changemakers in the Norwegian fjords.
Throughout her dynamic career, Alexandra has cultivated partnerships and advised global influencers and changemakers, including teams at UNDP, UN Women, IKEA, Chanel Foundation, Meta, Malala Fund, Oxfam, Fund for Global Human Rights, Porticus, Winthrop Rockefeller Fund, to name a few. Her strategic guidance has helped organisations crystallise their values, articulate their goals, and effectively track and communicate their impact stories.
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.
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