Welcome to our Data Governance Knowledge Share page. Its purpose is to provide a central resource for non-profit organizations looking to advance their missions with data governance as an enabler.
Here, we offer resources to help nonprofit organizations harness data in their decision-making, funding strategy, and service delivery. Programs and organizations can use this resource to refine practices for managing and using data; create a data governance protocol, and use data to design programs, meet performance outcomes, and collaborate across departments.
Browse all the resources here.
Knowledge Assets
Data Governance Tool Kit Guiding Framework
The tool kit is for nonprofit or social change organizations that support a community of program participants. Ideally, organizations that use the tool kit seek to better harness data in their programmatic decision-making, funding strategy, and service delivery.
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Knowledge Assets
Brief of Defining Data Capacity for
Two-Generation Approaches
The two-generation approach to breaking the cycle of poverty in families is grounded in the theory that addressing the needs of parents and children simultaneously in an integrated way yields better outcomes than implementing programs focused on just a single generation’s needs.
Knowledge Assets
Phases of Data Governance for
Two-Generation Approaches
An infographic that illustrates the phases of data governance for two-generation approaches.
Toolkit Modules
Data Change Management
Many organizations already have data systems and management protocols that they rely on. However, your organization may be looking to improve, adapt and perhaps even add aspects to your current data management infrastructure.
Toolkit Modules
Training & Retraining
Developing an effective data governance protocol requires organizations to have the necessary personnel to implement the protocol and build on governance practices as needed.
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Data Security & Privacy
A crucial component of any data governance protocol requires an organization to outline how data security and privacy will be upheld. There are five key principles of data security and privacy that you should take into account, which will help ensure that your organization’s approach to data governance respects the identities and information of program participants.
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Communications Plan
A key part of data governance is ensuring that your findings and lessons are shared internally throughout the organization and externally with stakeholders and funders and the families served by the organization.
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Stakeholder Engagement
Effective stakeholder engagement is essential to data governance because it increases the likelihood that the data system, the quality of the data, and the uses of the data address the needs of those the data system is designed to serve.
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Data Collection
Data collection, integration, and disaggregation represent important steps in data management that reflect directly on data governance practices. Outlining methods of data collection is important for obtaining meaningful information from program participants and other organizational metrics.
Hear From The Experts
Data Storytelling Through an Equity Lens
For Dr. Osagie Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, ethical data collection and representation begins with a commitment to ascertaining what’s happening in people’s lives and focusing less on the individual project he’s working on.
Hear From The Experts
Presenting Data to Funders Ethically
The demand for large data sets that indicate progress or project success is often accompanied by requests for several individual success stories that clearly demonstrate the impact of donor funding on an individual’s trajectory. While data can provide important insights into successful strategies for funding, it can also misrepresent the experiences and needs of the target beneficiaries.
Hear From The Experts
Data Security & Privacy
Claire Wiley, the Director of Data Systems & Program Evaluation at The Door (a holistic youth services non-profit agency in New York City) highlights three key principles non-profit organizations must consider when it comes to maintaining data security and privacy for their organizations and program participants: compliance, ethics, and trust
Stories From The Field
Annie E. Casey Foundation Interview
The Annie E. Casey Foundation partnered with five organizations to pilot test one of their resources - The Data Governance Kit - to understand how developing a data governance plan works in the real world.
The Data Governance For Two-Generation Programs Planning Toolkit is a partnership of James Bell Associates and The Albireo Group. Support was provided under a contract from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation.