DATA AS AN ALLY IN THE WORK OF NGOs

During the webinar, we will lay the foundations for solutions that allow NGOs to collect and use data on their work and implement effective strategies to benefit from it.

Non-profit organizations need funds to carry out their missions, but they also need to prove the results and usefulness of their work in order to attract donors and supporters. Funding organizations, institutions and the public are increasingly demanding evidence that NGOs are responsible and that their services deliver the desired results. Today, the ability to collect and store good data is key to any public benefit organization that wants to be successful. The data also helps organizations evaluate employees, manage risk and protect against malicious attacks.

Data science has a huge potential to optimize the work of NGOs, and also helps them make well-informed and reliable decisions.

Although not every organization can afford to hire analysts and professionals in this field, there are solutions to help teams collect the right data, store it and use it skillfully.

In this conversation we will focus on the issues of this

• What they are and what types of data they are
• How useful are the data for the work of organizations with a mission
• How to collect and find data from different sources on a limited budget
• How to easily create your own data

The conversation will be led by:

Ralitsa Dimitrova is part of theImpact Drive team. It is important for her to help NGOs hear what their beneficiaries, colleagues and society say about them, what they want from them and what they hope for. The stories that any organization can hear come in different forms - through interviews, through focus groups or through data. Ralitsa has more than 5 years of experience in non-governmental research projects, where she deals with everything from coordinating research to analyzing and presenting their results. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Statistics, Econometrics and Actuarial Studies from Sofia University.

Pavleta Aleksieva , Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law

Pavleta Aleksieva is a lawyer and has been the program director of the Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law since 2009. He has more than five years of legal experience with an emphasis on the legal and tax framework of NGOs in Bulgaria and experience in preparing legal analyzes, comparative studies and providing legal advice.

Her latest work and research are related to legislative changes pending the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bulgaria.

Ralitsa Nikolova, Editor-in-Chief of the NGO Portal , maintained by the Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law

Ralitsa Nikolova has 15 years of experience in the field of communications. Her longest practice (2000-2008) is in the New Moment New Ideas Company Agency in the position of PR manager, where she has developed and implemented communication strategies for clients from various business areas. In 2009 she joined the non-governmental sector and until July 2015 she worked at the Tulip Foundation. She was responsible for the development of contacts with the business partners of the foundation, she coordinated projects and events for cooperation between business and civil society organizations in Bulgaria. From 2015 until now he has held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the NGO Portal.

The meeting will be moderated by Teodora Ivanova ,Impact Drive