92% of nonprofits operate with less than $1 million, and 88% with half that. Yet we serve the 40 million Americans in poverty, the 11 million hungry children, the 6.5 million animals in shelters, the 10,000 species we could lose each year, and so many more. Nonprofits must become even more efficient, more impactful, better funded, better known, and more extraordinary that we already are.
Did you know a well-designed data strategy can help you with every one one of those critical needs? Becoming an outcomes-driven organization simply means you commit to tracking what works and doing more of it. But getting there can be seem a formidable task.
Merakinos can help you determine and implement your optimal data strategy.
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Frequently asked questions
We hear you, and you’re not alone. Figuring out what data you even have, how you might want to use it, what platforms you do – or don’t! – need, what people to hire or skills to train… That’s a lot to think about in your non-existent free time, especially when it’s not something you’ve done before. We’re happy to provide a free consultation session to get a feel for your biggest challenges and whether increasing your analytic capabilities would be appropriate and effective for you.
We help you think strategically about how you could use analytics to further your organization’s mission and goals, determine what tactical steps it would take to get there, and walk beside you as travel towards those analytic goals. We like to think of this service as providing you with your very own analytic Gandalf.
Wonderful! You’re already ahead of the game. We’re happy to step in wherever along in the process you might need us. If you already have your end goal in mind, we can help you determine what capacity you need to achieve it. If you already know what kind of analytic capacity you want to develop, we can help advise on the best tools, job descriptions, skills, and more that you need to realize those goals.
We’re happy to work with you to determine a more localized strategy and tactics within the existing framework of your greater organization. Any step at any level of an organization towards data-driven decisions will bring benefits to the whole as well as those you serve.
Yes and no. You know your organization and its needs, hopes, and dreams better than any of us. So we need you to provide the direction, inform the guiding values, and ultimately make the key decisions such as vendor selection or hiring new staff. But we’ll be right there with you, helping you ask the right questions, teaching critical skills, pointing out the tricky bits, filtering out unnecessary work and noise, and streamlining wherever possible.
If at some point you do need help on specific analytic projects, or if you ultimately want us to provide analytics through our reporting service, we’re happy to help there, too.
We craft custom scopes of work for each and every strategic advisory client. Your needs, challenges, and goals are unique. Before we can tell you how much it will cost, we need to know exactly what you want us to help with and how involved we’ll be.
Because we only work with nonprofits, our rates are affordable, and we will work with you to develop a plan within whatever your budget might be.
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