Case Study: Scaling Up to End Poverty
“No poverty” is number one in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And with good reason. According to the World Bank, an estimated?660 million?people live in extreme poverty, calculated at less than $1.90 per day. In the United States alone, 37.2 million people live in poverty.?
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented spike in poverty rates around the world and drove more people into poverty. Unfortunately, Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of the world where poverty is?chronic. Food for the Poor helps families in 17 Latin America and Caribbean countries by providing food, water, housing, emergency relief, and other development opportunities. Sopact partnered with Food for the Poor to overcome their?impact measurement?challenges, scale their impact, and make a difference in the fight against poverty. This is their impact journey.
Measuring nonprofit effectiveness:
Food for the Poor has a large programmatic reach. They serve 17 different countries with stakeholders that speak multiple languages. Organizations with an extensive portfolio of programs often have challenges aggregating their data across countries. Food for the Poor’s data was collected by hand and painstakingly cleaned and scored in spreadsheets for all their programs. Data in various languages also made information sharing difficult without laborious manual translation. Food for the Poor’s long reporting and learning cycle limited the insight that could be gained from program evaluation. Finally, Food for the Poor needed to be aligned to global standards of impact.
Nonprofit KPI Dashboard Steps
Through engagement with Sopact, Food for the Poor optimized its extensive portfolio to overcome its impact measurement and management challenges. The priorities for the project were:?
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The Sopact team helped Food for the Poor develop an?impact strategy. This included developing a?Theory of Change?to help connect the dots between the components of their programs and the impact goals. As a result, food for the Poor aligned its objectives to the UN’s?SDGs, making cross-country comparison possible through a global language.
Data management is more streamlined and efficient, saving the monitoring and evaluation team many hours. Stakeholder data is automatically collected, translated, aggregated, and stored in a single platform,?Impact Cloud?. With this aggregate data analyzed in real-time dashboards, the organization has deeper insight into its programs and performance. In addition, through continuous learning, they have the opportunity to scale their impact by community or country.
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