Current and Past Projects Include:
​​​​Productive Ways to Use GenAI for Civil Servants Playbook
Client: data.org
Summary: Through partnership with Data.org and Microsoft, Data Elevates is currently developing a playbook for civil servants worldwide on integrating Generative AI tools into government operations to improve productivity across public sectors, acknowledging risks and providing approaches to mitigate them in the process. This resource will feature international use cases, tailored skilling content for both current and future workforce, and in depth explorations to guide actionable strategies. Once published, this Generative AI playbook will be hosted on data.org’s digital platform.
Sector(s): Education
Service(s): Digital Transformation, AI Solutions and Skills Training
Website: Productive Ways to Use GenAI for Civil Servants Playbook
​​​​Broadening Participation of Women Veterans in the STEM Workforce through Service Learning
Client: National Science Foundation
Summary: Through an NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning award, this project is evaluating the efficacy of service learning as a pedagogy for building data skills with women veterans. The objective is, ultimately, to improve women veteran economic potential, particularly through the challenges of transitioning from military to civilian life. In collaboration with San Diego State University and the University of Houston, Data Elevates will lead this project, which will result in new knowledge and research on the topic to support veteran service providers nationwide. The San Diego County-based project will develop, implement, and refine the Impacting Communities Through Data (ICTD) program where our team will train 200 women veterans through community-based projects, workshops, and group learning activities.​
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Community Data Skills Training
Website: AISL Program Description, Veterans in Data, Data Elevates ICTD Program Press Release
​​USAID Cambodia Enhancing Quality of Healthcare Activity II
Client: FHI 360 (subaward of USAID grant)
Summary: Through the EQHA II program, the FHI led consortium works in close collaborate with the Cambodian Ministry of Health to improve evidence-based policy, strengthen the capacity of the public and private sectors to implement and evaluate health systems and, and improve health service quality across seven provinces. Data Elevates work includes conducting a series of national and provincial level Rapid Data Maturity Assessments (RDMAs) and using insights gained from these to provide recommendations to MOH; strengthening capacity among MOH officers and local partners in data visualization and analysis, including the use of new technologies; and creating the National Quality Enhancement Monitoring Tool.
Pictured - FHI Cambodia team with Data Elevates (June 2024)
Sector(s): Health, Economic Growth
Service(s): Digital Transformation, Analytics and Visualization
Website: EQHA II Program
​​DataConnects Guide Design & Content Development
Client: data.org
Summary: Based on its extensive experience, Data Elevates led content development for sixteen simple, online guides to support social impact organizations in their digital transformation and data maturity journeys. Guides with focuses ranging from data risk management to data staff planning to GenAI policy development were all designed for practical, step-by-step use. As part of data.org’s DataConnects brand of support, these were all housed on the organization’s site.
Sector(s): Education
Service(s): Digital Transformation, AI Solutions and Skills Training
Website: data.org Guide Finder
Screenshot - DataConnects guide on Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
​​​​​​​​​Michigan Good Food Charter Data Strategy
Client: Michigan State University (MSU)
Summary: MSU and its regional food systems stakeholders developed the Good Food Charter to develop a more equitable, healthier, and environmentally sustainable local food system through shared impact and advocacy. To do so, Data Elevates led the collaborative design, facilitation, and development of shared indicators to measure and communicate progress to policymakers, ultimately to instigate positive change.
Sector(s): Food Systems and Environment
Service(s): Organizational Development
Screenshot - Good Food Charter sample indicator & visualization
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​​​​​​​Avanzando con AI
Client: data.org (in partnership with Microsoft)
Summary: Data Elevates, through a Generative AI Skills Challenge award, is developing and facilitating a course training Venezuelan migrant women in Chile on the use of generative AI in workplace productivity. The course is entitled "Empoderamiento AI". This course will is coupled with employer networking events to further enhance career opportunities. To sustain its value, the course will be designed for free public consumption as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by project end. In this way, the project and the MOOC will provide great impact to the Spanish-speaking community, engaging audiences with the practicality of using generative AI, developing skills to meet job and technology trends in a changing world.
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation, Community Data Skills Training, AI Solutions and Skills Training
Website: Generative AI Skills Challenge
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Impacta Data
Client: Banco de Chile
Summary: The Impacta Data program combines data skills and job networks and is an expansion of Data Elevates' work under the Aprendo Data program. As part of the program, Data Elevates trains migrant women in Latin America in data use, analysis, visualization, and SQL using PowerQuery and PowerBI. Participants present their final projects as data visualization case studies and are connected to job skill training and employment opportunities through the CDI Chile employer network.
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation, Community Data Skills Training
Video: Women in Data Science
​​​​​​​Red Impacta Data
Client: Inter-American Foundation
Summary: Red Impacta Data is an expansion program of Data Elevates’ Aprendo Data, and Impacta Data programs. Together with CDI Chile, Data Elevates provides digital skills training to Spanish-speaking migrant women, along with Jobtech events and opportunities. The program launched the Red Impacta Data network, a migrant women led employment network that works to bridge the digital gender divide and provide career building employment opportunities for program graduates. As part of the program graduates have presented on topics including mental health, education access, and employment opportunities.
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation, Community Data Skills Training
Video: Red Impacta Data
​Aprendo Data
​Client: USAID
Summary: A digital skills for employment program, Data Elevates led trainings in data analysis and visualization migrant women using Tableau and PowerBI. The program combined data skills building with JobTech events and employment opportunities for the graduates, and resulted in three rounds of private sector expansion funding through Banco de Chile, and the launch of the Red Impacta Data program funded through the Inter-American Foundation. The program resulted in a successful Training of Trainers (ToT) program, and 14 cohorts of program graduates.​​
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Community Data Skills Training
​​​Data Visualization Storytelling Workshops​
Client: USAID Regional Development Mission Asia
Summary: Data Elevates led a series of workshop trainings in data visualization and data storytelling for the USAID Regional Development Mission Asia. The trainings utilized Google platform, and covered topics including Freytag’s Pyramid for storytelling, and Gestalt principles for visualization. USAID staff from 12 Missions participated in the training that which utilized program examples relevant to the Asia international development context.
Sector(s): Education
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization, Workforce Development
Photo - Zoom capture of SD Food Bank Tableau workshop
An Introduction to Tableau
​Client: The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
Summary: Data Elevates developed and facilitated a half day workshop with the San Diego Food Bank Program Operations staff to build expertise in data storytelling and practical use of Tableau in analyzing and communicating food distributions, storage, disbursement, and a range of other impactful metrics to key stakeholders. The training developed effectiveness among food bank staff for internal operations, client reporting, and fundraising communications as they continue their critical work in support of healthy food access within low-income and food insecure communities across San Diego County.
Sector(s): Health, Food Systems and Environment
Service(s): Digital Transformation, Analytics and Visualization, Data Skills Training
Screenshot - Sample slide from small farmer data workshop
Data Training for Small Farmers​
Client: Community Alliance of Family Farmers
Summary: Data Elevates led a series of workshops with US-based small farmers to support them with customized content regarding data literacy and utilizing data for market channel evaluations. Small farmers are often overworked and low-resourced, so training sessions were focused on critical needs, templates, and activities to serve as a reference and guide to help sustain and grow their local food businesses. Data Elevates’ support of local farm sustainability also stems from our support of climate resilient, environmentally sustainable approaches to food procurement, which often occur at the local, small farm level.
Sector(s): Education,Economic Growth, Food Systems and Environment
Service(s): Workforce Development, Community Data Skills Training
Food & Agriculture Mapper & Explorer (FAME)​
Client: Colorado State University (USDA grant)
Summary: Working with a range of key public and private sector food systems stakeholders across the nation, Data Elevates led the design and collaborative effort to develop a series of visualizations entitled the Food & Agriculture Mapper & Explorer (FAME), seen here. FAME accesses over 280 publicly available indicators, primarily at the county-level, to provide information on a wide range of community health and food systems topics. It was developed and widely broadcasted to support local food systems organizations improve their use of data in program design and evaluations. FAME is a living dashboard, and was developed for sustainable use in incorporating new data sets added to the GitHub data storage site.
Sector(s): Food Systems and Environment
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization
Website: Food & Agriculture Mapper & Explorer (FAME) Development
Screenshot - Home page of FAME dashboard
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation, AI Solutions and Skills Training
Screenshot - Zoom presentation from PJMF data architecture workshop
​​Collaborative Data Science & Modern Data Wrangling Workshop Series​Client: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Summary: Data Elevates developed a series of workshops on two course topics, Modern Data Wrangling and Collaborative Data Science, to support more advanced data architecture and data science-based needs from domestic and international nonprofits. In doing so, workshops were activity-based, customized, and designed for easy consumption and accessibility. Topics included data quality assurance, ETL pipeline development, using GitHub for collaboration, machine learning, and others.
Data Governance Accelerator Coaching & Facilitation
Client: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Summary: The Data Governance Accelerator is a year-long program designed around a cohort-based model. This program is meticulously structured to concentrate on the six fundamental pillars of Data Governance, a critical aspect of modern data management. The core objective of the Data Governance Accelerator is to facilitate the development and implementation of comprehensive data governance roadmaps within non-governmental organizations. By providing guidance, resources, and a conducive environment, Data Elevates supports these organizations in their pursuit of establishing robust data governance frameworks. Throughout the program, participants not only gain a deep understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of data governance but also engage in practical activities to translate this knowledge into actionable strategies.
Sector(s): Education, Health
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation
D4WN, Business Intelligence for the Informal Workforce​
Client: data.org
D4WN is a platform co-created by Data Elevates, along with our partners Fundacion Capital and UX IT in Mozambique to empower workers by sharing informal labor market insights and personal advice derived from data generated by two local digital platforms, Biscate and Com-Hector. The project is being funded by data.org, a platform for partnerships to build the field of data science for social impact. We believe that data science can help generate actionable insights for workers, data narratives for stakeholders to engage in data driven decision making for labor policies, and improve the design and development of digital platforms that can service informal workers and improve their financial outcomes.
D4WN analyzes the data outputs from Biscate and Com-Hector, and translates them into tailor-made insights to workers, to help improve decision making, career choices, and personal development. By increasing access to information that workers themselves are generating, we are illuminating the dark economy. Ultimately, our goal is to improve informal workers’ livelihoods so that future generations can benefit from more personal and professional development opportunities.
Sector(s): Economic Growth
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization, Digital Transformation, AI Solutions and Skills Training
Video: D4WN Overview
Data Maturity Cohort Coaching & Facilitation​
Client: data.org (in partnership with Microsoft)
Data Elevates, in collaboration with data.org and Microsoft, is implementing the innovative "Data Maturity Cohort" program, a transformative initiative designed to empower black-serving social impact organizations (SIOs) across the United States. This program integrates workshops and personalized organizational coaching to enhance ethical data practices, catalyze organizational growth, and elevate program impact. The Data Maturity Cohort is centered on fortifying ethical data collection, management, and utilization within participating SIOs. The program ensures that data is collected with sensitivity, transparency, and consent, while adhering to the highest standards of privacy and security.
The core of the program is a series of meticulously designed workshops and personalized coaching sessions. Through interactive workshops, SIOs gain insights into cutting-edge data practices, from foundational concepts to advanced strategies. These sessions foster a collaborative environment, allowing participants to share experiences, learn from each other's challenges, and devise innovative solutions. SIOs also receive ongoing organizational coaching to support implementation and address challenges.
Sector(s): Education, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Digital Transformation,Analytics and Visualization
Website: Advancing Data Maturity Playbook
​​​​​​​​​ILAB Grantee Data Reporting Tool Development​
Client: Bizzel Group (as part of a DOL ILAB grant)
Summary: In partnership with the Bizzell Group and NORC at the University of Chicago, Data Elevates is leading the development and implementation of an end-to-end data collection and reporting solution to operationalize the Dept. of Labor’s Bureau for International Labor Affairs (ILAB) Theory of Sustained Change (TOsC). ILAB relied primarily on narrative reports from grantees on program reach and impact across its 40+ international grantees, with no standardized system for reporting quantitative impact data. This made it impossible to quickly answer common questions like “How many women did we reach in Latin America last year?” or “Which of our programs are addressing child labor abuse?” To solve this problem, DE developed a standardized reporting toolkit in Excel for grantees to define, report, and visualize standard ILAB indicators as well as project-specific custom indicators. In addition, DE developed an extensible dataset aggregator tool for ILAB managers that imports, transforms, and aggregates grantee data for global program analysis.
Sector(s): Economic Growth
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization, Digital Transformation
​​​​​Rapid Data Maturity Assessment and Organizational Development​
Client: Fundación Capital
Summary: Since 2020, DE has partnered with Fundación Capital (FundaK), an edu-tech NGO building digital citizenship around the world, to design and execute a transformative Data Strategy. Beginning with a comprehensive Rapid Data Maturity Assessment, DE supports the FundaK Advanced Digital Services team to identify strategic investments in the people, processes, and technology that enable proactive data operations. Among other recommendations, the RDMA identified and prioritized employee data literacy and skill-building as a key area of investment. Therefore, DE supported employee development in key data concepts like data ethics, data-driven management practices, and data visualization and storytelling. As part of strategic data management, DE supported the development of global Core Indicators as well as piloted data pipelines and data warehouse to link disparate program data sources to enable on-demand global reporting and data exploration.​​​​
Sector(s): Economic Growth
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization, Digital Transformation, Workforce Development
​​​​Ukraine Child Protective Services Reform Costing Model Development​
Client: Maestral International (as part of a UNICEF grant)
Summary: DE is working with our partners at UNICEF, Maestral International, and the Government of Ukraine to support the ongoing reform of national child protective services with the design of budget forecasting and standardized decision-support tools for public financial management (PFM). ​
At the heart of this initiative lies the development of data tools that empower the Government of Ukraine to plan and cost policy reforms for child social protection services. These tools harness data-driven insights to inform policy decisions, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently and effectively to maximize impact on the lives of children and their families. ​The data tools being developed go beyond mere data collection and forecasting, diving into the realm of strategic data utilization. By identifying gaps and projecting future needs, these tools equip policymakers with the information required to make informed choices and supporting evidence-based decision-making.
Sector(s): Health
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization
Healthy School Food Pathways Dashboard Development​
Client: Chef Ann Foundation
Summary: Data Elevates (DE) is designing and developing data structures, dashboards, and business intelligence tools for Chef Ann Foundation and its key partners to better monitor the progress of the Healthy School Food Pathway (HSFP) program. The HSFP program develops and implements apprenticeship and fellowship pathways for participants to learn food service skills, empowering them to either begin or advance careers in school food. The program supports both participant economic potential and healthier school foods through hiring of more advanced culinary professionals, while prioritizing local food procurement to support small farmers and environmental sustainability. The tools developed by DE improve participant and school district progress tracking, for defining and resolving of challenges, and communication of positive impact to key stakeholders and policymakers.
Sector(s): Food Systems and Environment
Service(s): Workforce Development, Analytics and Visualization
​​​Country Health Information Systems and Data Use​
Client: Vital Strategies (as part of a USAID grant)
Summary: DE supported Vital Strategies in providing senior technical advisory services for CHISU project work in Indonesia and Serbia. This included development of digital skills training material, and running of workshops focused on the development analytic projects. In addition DE provided recommendations to Indonesia MOH staff on digital tool development and recommendations for dashboards linked to the SatuSehat (One Health) platform.
Sector(s): Education, Health, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Community Data Skills Training, Digital transformation, Analytics and Visualization
​​​​Business Integration​
Client: Konung International
Summary: DE provided financial management support and recommendations on commercial best practices to Konung International for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom. This support included assistance with financial management practices linked to project work. Recommendations on costing and pricing strategy for different clients based on risk and other factors were provided.
Sector(s): Economic Growth
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization
Sector(s): Education, Health, Economic Growth
Service(s): Workforce Development, Community Data Skills Training, Digital Transformation, Analytics and Visualization
Sector(s): Economic Growth
Service(s): Analytics and Visualization
