Data Strategic Planning
Data Strategic Planning is a series of workshops and individualized coaching sessions that guide organizations towards making more effective use of data.
We help you move towards making more informed decisions by aligning your data collection, analysis, and communication with your strategic goals.
Nearly 80 organizations around Connecticut have taken part in Data Strategic Planning since 2022, including advocacy organizations, social service providers, schools, cultural organizations, legal aid providers, housing groups, and state agencies.
Data Strategic Planning works in phases:
Phase I: Design Your Data Plan
Increase data literacy skills
Understand how data can inform your work
Develop guiding questions and a simplified logic model
Phase II: Build Your Data Plan
Identify strengths and gaps in your data practices
Align data with your strategic questions and desired outcomes
Assess your technology needs
Phase II: Build Your Data Plan
Identify strengths and gaps in your data practices
Align data with your strategic questions and desired outcomes
Assess your technology needs
Recent posts about Data Strategic Planning
Partnering for Success: Hartford Promise Strengthens its Data Culture with CTData
Hartford Promise faced challenges with their outdated data system while providing scholarships to Hartford public high school graduates. CTData helped them develop a strategic data plan that improved their ability to track impact and support scholars. Watch video and read more.
Team Effort: Discovery Science Center Builds its Data Culture with CTData
Sacred Heart University’s Discovery Science Center and Planetarium leveraged their data for strategic decision-making and stakeholder engagement, through structured workshops and personalized coaching with CTData. Watch video and read more.
How can Data Strategic Planning help you?
Testimonials from recent participants
“Data Strategic Planning has helped to focus my ideas about my organization’s goals and how to measure our impact. I’m very excited to move from a ‘game plan’ to a plan of action.”
“Watching you present about data at the workshop taught me how to improve how I share data with a group.”
“Having the opportunity to take the time and really start to understand how data is so important to our organization and mission was a real gift . . . Being able to begin to think about what our priorities are and how data is so involved in them was eye opening.”
“DSP has been an incredibly valuable resource for our team! We started with a list of questions we had no ideas how to approach solving and through our work with the DSP crew, we not only created systems to answer each one but also learned that we have gotten better at asking and answering questions on our own. DSP is a great judgment-free space to get ideas out and facilitate team conversations, making dedicated time to solve the problems you need to grow.”
Who pays for Data Strategic Planning?
Some foundations fund work for a cohort of nonprofits, or organizations can individually contract with CTData.
To learn more, request a meeting with Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, Director of Data Strategic Planning