Category: Insights
Feeding Westchester and Datatelligent Collaborate to Enhance Community Outreach Efforts
Connecting Donors, Volunteers, and the Community to Provide Data-Driven Solutions to Food Security Issues
GLEN ELLYN, Ill., December 23, 2021 — Datatelligent, LLC (www.datatelligent.ai) today announced it has been selected by Feeding Westchester to create a dynamic data analytics solution that will enhance staff efficiency and improve collaboration with volunteers, donors, and board members. Drawing upon its extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, Datatelligent’s team will build a Unified Data Platform to collect, clean, and organize data from sources throughout the Feeding Westchester organization, providing staff with timely and accurate data — efficiently and easier than their current approach.
Feeding Westchester, based in Elmsford, New York, is Westchester County’s largest nonprofit hunger-relief organization, and in 2020, provided more than 18 million meals to people in need. It does an exemplary job serving its community and galvanizing volunteers and donors, and its leadership team recognized that staff could further enhance operations and outreach with a more robust, turnkey solution to collect, analyze and report data. Consequently, Datatelligent has been engaged to reimagine Feeding Westchester’s data analytics structure and build a platform using Snowflake to standardize data collection and reporting, integrate disparate information, create highly visual reports, and enhance collaboration throughout the organization.
Using Datatelligent’s Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) offering, Datatelligent staff are building a solution to collect, track and report data as it relates to food donations and distributions, fundraising, and volunteer activities. The platform will provide Feeding Westchester with up-to-date, easy to interpret data, speeding access to accurate information, decreasing staff time spent compiling reports, and improving timely decision-making efforts.
Additionally, the solution will tap into Datatelligent’s expert knowledge of Snowflake’s data cloud to centralize data storage which will allow Feeding Westchester staff to create highly visual reports enhancing understanding of disparate information.
“We are thrilled to be working with an organization that is doing so much good in its community, especially as the ongoing effects of the Covid pandemic continue to create challenges and need. We look forward to creating an innovative solution in support of Feeding Westchester’s mission,” said Larry Blackburn, Chief Data Transformation Officer, Datatelligent.
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About Datatelligent
Datatelligent is 100% focused on data, analytics, and AI solutions. We help organizations compete and thrive in today’s data-driven world by providing a unique Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) approach—the People and Platform in Partnership with businesses—to achieve data and analytic success. With speed, agility, scalability, and more than 20 years of experience, our leadership team’s expertise spans all business sizes and industries.
About Feeding Westchester
Feeding Westchester is the county’s largest nonprofit hunger-relief organization at the heart of a network of 225 community partners and programs. With a mission to nourish their neighbors in the fight against hunger, the organization sources and distributes good, nutritious food and other resources throughout every community in Westchester County. In 2020, Feeding Westchester delivered 22 million pounds of food or 18.4 million meals through soup kitchens, food pantries, schools, shelters, residential programs, and mobile distributions. The nonprofit is committed to creating a community where all people have access to the food they need today and the fundamental resources to build a better tomorrow. Feeding Westchester is located at 200 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford, NY 10523. For more information, visit feedingwestchester.org.
Jessie Meehan
communications@feedingwestchester.org
Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition Selects Datatelligent to Build Data Analytics Dashboard
Partnership Harnesses Data to Help Meet Food Access Needs in Indianapolis
(GLEN ELLYN, IL, JANUARY 20, 2022) — Datatelligent, a data, analytics and AI solutions firm focused on helping higher education institutions, not-for-profits and small to mid-sized (SMB) firms manage their data, has been selected by the Indianapolis Food Council to create a comprehensive data analytics solution that will help provide equitable access to food, improve staff efficiency, and analyze program efficacy. Datatelligent staff, drawing upon their extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, will work collaboratively with the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition (ICFAC) staff to integrate data sources and provide staff with access to accurate and up-to-date analytics.
“We’re proud to be working with a group that is making a valuable impact in their community. We look forward to helping the ICFAC work more efficiently and knowledgeably in support of their mission,” said Larry Blackburn, Chief Solutions Officer, Datatelligent.
Datatelligent’s team has been engaged to develop a data analytics dashboard using Tableau. For example, ICFAC staff will utilize the dashboard to review the performance of programs implemented in collaboration with Lyft. Using metrics tied to transportation to and from grocery stores, ridership demographics, destinations, and other markers, staff will have the information needed to determine program impact and make improvements for the future. This solution will integrate and cleanse data flowing in from both internal and external sources and will allow staff self-service access to timely information. The dashboard will free up valuable team resources by automating data collection and reporting efforts, speeding access to accurate information, and improving their ability to assess program impact and success.
About the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition
The Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition is an organization focused on providing equitable access to healthy and nutritious food in the community. Their goal is to connect participants with healthy, local food across all ages and demographics as well as expand the market for local food and increase access to community-based programming to improve healthy eating habits. Learn more at indyfoodpolicy.org.
About Datatelligent
Datatelligent is 100% focused on data, analytics, and AI solutions. We help organizations compete and thrive in today’s data-driven world by providing a unique Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) approach—the People and Platform in Partnership with businesses—to achieve data and analytic success. With speed, agility, and scalability, and more than 20 years of experience, our leadership team’s expertise spans all business sizes and industries. Learn more at datatelligent.ai.
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Cornell College Case Study
The Intersection of DEI, Data & Student Enrollment
All data are not created equal. To be actionable, and to have a chance of influencing behavior, information needs to be legible to the intended audience.
Many higher institutions have all the right diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) data points at their fingertips, but what they lack is the clarity behind what the data means and the decisions they need to make based on the data. Student information sitting passively in a myriad of databases is a far cry from actionable DEI insights.
Equity can’t be explained away by rhetoric—it’s about the numbers. Whether or not you believe equity is framed and defined by ownership or diversity, it is definitely quantifiable. Therefore, it’s essential to present diversity data in an easy-to-understand, customizable scorecard or dashboard that is relevant to its intended users. The data presentation should allow for easy comparisons between units and across time periods.
Enter Datatelligent. We understand that finding and enrolling the right students is more challenging than ever, which makes each stage of the enrollment journey even more critical.
DEI DATA SESSIONS
Datatelligent is participating in several upcoming sessions about the intersection of DEI and data, including:
- DEI Webinar – 10.28.21 at 1:00 PM
- I-AIR Conference – 11.1.21 at 3:00 PM
- AIRUM Conference – 11.5.21 at 8:00 AM
The sessions will review strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of your DEI data across student recruitment and enrollment initiatives. They will also feature a demo of Datatelligent’s DEI Student Outreach Solution Engine that gives higher education leaders a 360⁰ view of the student data, including:
- Insights into DEI-related recruitment opportunities for high school students
- Interactive map of counties highlighted by special population indicators and current college attendees
- Key demographic data (poverty levels, single female households, disability, unemployment rates, etc.)
- High schools per county displayed with student body demographic details
In order to advance DEI, you must drive progress through your data. Insight into your student data—from its racial and cultural makeup to geographical recruitment reach—is key to understanding your students’ experiences and the change that needs to happen.
Contact Datatelligent today to start fully tapping your DEI data.
Working in the nonprofit space can be highly satisfying — you may be focused on addressing a pressing social need, making a positive change in your community, or supporting a mission about which you feel passionate. But the nonprofit world also may mean working with a limited budget, a small staff, and more challenging infrastructure. Throw board and donor outreach in the mix, and the complications can intensify quickly.
What if there was a data-driven, customizable and scalable solution that could seamlessly bring together disparate information in order to gauge organizational health? Imagine having data related to your people, programs, finances, development, and marketing accessible anytime all in one system? Well, that time is now with Datatelligent’s Nonprofit Health Dashboard.
At Datatelligent, a leading data analytics firm, we recognize that nonprofit organizations have specific data challenges and infrastructure needs. Whether it is the ability to gauge your program’s effectiveness year-over-year quickly, identify trends in staff retention, answer board member questions on-the-fly with up-to-date information, or forecast fundraising goals, nonprofit leaders are tasked with juggling multiple demands.
As an executive in the nonprofit space for more than 25 years, I have experienced it all — endlessly pulling reports and Frankensteining the information together from numerous sources, fielding questions from board members and scrambling to find the answers, feeling the frustration of reconciling data anomalies — all while working to support and advance our mission.
All of those experiences have helped me create the Nonprofit Health Dashboard with my colleagues at Datatelligent. This solution enables nonprofits to consolidate information flowing in from throughout the organization, allowing staff to have insight into essential parts of their business: People, Programs, Finances, Development, and Marketing. Each section is organized around Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as dictated by your needs. Our staff at Datatelligent will fine-tune this dashboard to meet the custom needs of your organization. All with the goal of allowing your leadership team and staff access to the timeliest, data-driven information.
Imagine having all of this at-the-ready: Being able to identify and compare organizational trends, pulling information on-the-fly to address immediate questions from your board or donors, comparing and contrasting program performance to accurately forecast for the future. All of this is possible with our Nonprofit Health Dashboard.
And our team is here to help create your custom dashboard, store the data in the cloud (freeing up your staff’s time and effort), and report the information in a highly visual display, making the data easy to access and act upon.
If you’d like to learn more about how Datatelligent can create a Nonprofit Health Dashboard for your organization or how we have supported other clients, visit datatelligent.ai.
From a technical standpoint, data analytics work can be challenging and time consuming. Whether it’s combining different data sources, blending disparate systems, or filling in missing gaps, it can be a migraine-inducing task.
But what if we have been overlooking a tool that can make our job easier and deliver a more stream-line experience for our engineers? At Datatelligent, we have become adept at utilizing Tableau Prep, a Tableau module that can seamlessly clean and combine data from different sources in a highly visual interface. It eliminates the need to write code to connect to data sources and cleanse data. It’s included in the standard Tableau subscription, so it is a budget-friendly option as well.
We have successfully utilized Tableau Prep with numerous Datatelligent clients from the higher education, retail, and the business-to-business sectors. Our knowledge and experience has helped us access our customer’s data in a direct, visual way to ensure a deeper understanding and gives us the ability to act quickly and with confidence. We can deliver our projects quicker and without the usual data management headaches – all with no need to write code, saving countless man hours and improving performance.
Not only is our use of Tableau Prep a huge time and budget saver, but also it allows us to see immediate results. We see the results instantly with each action. This gives us the flexibility to immediately fix errors or try new processes without the need to write new code.
If you’d like to see how Datatelligent supports clients with its Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) approach and specifically how we have successfully leveraged Tableau Prep to help clients big and small, visit www.datatelligent.ai.
