2017 Grant Recipients
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Delta Analytics is using KIVA data for our machine learning for good initiative, which aims to build technical capacity around the world, and empower anyone to leverage data for good in their communities. We use a subset of KIVA data tailored to each country we teach in. For example, our pilot course in Nairobi, Kenya has focused on Kiva lending patterns over 11 years in Kenya. We are partnering closely with the Kiva team to make sure our work is impactful and is actionable for their local offices.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a membership organisation representing a network of 500 botanic gardens in more than 100 countries, including the largest and most influential gardens in the sector. BGCI is the largest plant conservation network in the world, and aims to collect, conserve, characterise and cultivate samples from all of the world’s plants as an insurance policy against their extinction in the wild and as a source of plant material for human innovation, adaptation and resilience. Delta will be working with BGCI to do a gap analysis of BGCI's databases on trees, threats and botanic garden collections to increase their knowledge of the world's threatened trees. BGCI wants to assess the importance of botanic gardens in tree conservation and identify the world's most threatened trees that are missing from botanic garden collections for future conservation action.
TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. Delta is working with TechnoServe to analyze their project level data globally. Delta will consolidate their data sources, help define key metrics for analysis, and deliver insights that will help TechnoServe make key strategic decisions.
Samasource is a non-profit social business that strives to end systemic poverty by giving work instead of giving handouts.
Delta is working with Samasource to build out data infrastructure that will tie together multiple facets of operations and impact metrics. Samasource is seeking to marry together business operations data (revenue, margins, etc.) with agent performance data (tenure, time-per-task, submission metrics) and impact metrics (prior income, education level, post-employment surveys, etc.).
Delta is working with Samasource to build out data infrastructure that will tie together multiple facets of operations and impact metrics. Samasource is seeking to marry together business operations data (revenue, margins, etc.) with agent performance data (tenure, time-per-task, submission metrics) and impact metrics (prior income, education level, post-employment surveys, etc.).
Delta is working with Rainforest Connection to improve and build upon existing models that use audio data streamed from recycled cell phone sensors positioned in endangered forests. The goal is to track ecological markers such as the presence of specific species, and harmful human activity such as illegal logging. Rainforest Connection wishes to combine existing models to improve accuracy, and add new models that take into account more information, such as the distance between a sensor and an event in the forest. Improved models will enable Rainforest Connection to better serve scientific and environmental partners by providing more precise and accurate real-time information about the presence of certain species and the overall health of an environment.
BUILD equips youth from under-resourced communities for high school, college, and career success by enabling students to develop and run their own small businesses. Delta is working with BUILD to utilize demographic and student college enrollment data that BUILD has collected on their programs. BUILD is seeking to evaluate the curricular components of their programs based on the data in order to maximize outcomes for participating students. This analysis will allow internal evaluation of BUILD’s program efficacy, and inform data-driven changes to the curriculum.
Delta is working with City Year to develop a dashboard tool based on demographic and outcome data that City Year has collected on their programs. City Year is seeking to better measure and assess how their programs affect the outcomes of different types of students, to prioritize where to allocate their resources, more effectively to communicate their work and better tracking of the organization’s fiscal health. This dashboard will provide City Year with greater insight into their impact, financial health status and enable greater data driven decision making to achieve their revenue goal to support scaling by 2023.
2016 Grant Recipients
United Way of the Bay Area (UWBA) aims to be a catalyst that enables disadvantaged communities to achieve financial sustainability. Delta will help UWBA assess what sequence of programs are most successful in lifting clients out of poverty and keeping them there.
Village Enterprise operates in Kenya and Uganda. Its mission is to assist individuals living in extreme poverty to launch successful and sustainable businesses. Delta will be assessing the historical impact of micro-enterprises started by participants in the training programs to will help guide future investments and understand participant outcomes.
TechnoServe provides business solutions to poverty by working with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. Delta will be helping TechnoServe identify how its impact varies across its diverse project portfolio.
Transforming Education supports educators and education systems by equipping students with the mindsets, essential skills, and habits they need to succeed in college, career, and life. Transforming Education has asked Delta to assist in answering its two broad research questions: what mindsets, essential skills, habits, and skills are worth focusing on, and what can education systems do to build these skills?
KUOW is one of the founding National Public Radio member stations in the 1970s. Its mission is to create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures. Delta has been asked to provide metrics about the demographics and listening preferences of KUOW listeners and figure out the best ways KUOW can personalize services to them.
BioLite is a developer of safe, productive, and environmentally friendly energy sources. Its main innovation is the BioLite HomeStove, which provides those in developing nations relying on wood stoves with a clean and efficient source of energy. Delta will help BioLite improve its analysis of key data including sales and customer survey results. Delta will also help implement a new inventory tracking system to help BioLite more effectively bring its products to developing markets.
Past Grant Recipients
Karibu Solar Power is a social enterprise that aims to make high quality solar lighting and energy affordable in Tanzania. Delta is designing a survey with one of our PhD experts to evaluate Karibu's pilot program; these data will help Karibu refine its business model and implement its social objectives.
Tenants Together, California's only statewide renters' rights organization, is a nonprofit dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent and affordable housing. Delta is helping Tenants Together develop a system to better understand the data collected from their hotline and to help the organization track metrics of interest.
The Association of Art Historians is a UK-based membership organization for those with a professional commitment to and interest in art history and visual culture. Delta is helping AAH analyze trends in art history as an academic discipline to inform AAH's advocacy and marketing efforts. Our work for AAH can be found here.
Livelyhoods creates jobs for youths in urban slum's in Kenya through the distribution of life changing products. Delta will be working on data collection to estimate the impact of Livelyhoods programs selling life changing products & help visualize existing data.
Eneza Education aims to spread access to education in rural Africa through its mobile application, which provides virtual instruction to students. Delta is helping Eneza Education quantify its impact by analyzing trends in data collected on over 350,000 students via Eneza's mobile platform.
Generation Citizen teaches young adults how to take effective political action. Through unique civic-engagement programs in schools across the United States, the organization provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to instigate change. Delta helped Generation Citizen assess its programs through analysis of classroom observations and survey data.
The Foundation for Sustainable Development achieves community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Delta Analytics, LLC helped FSD analyze inquiry and contact data to improve marketing efforts and track program interest.
Delta Analytics, LLC helped FSD analyze inquiry and contact data to improve marketing efforts and track program interest.
Roots of Success is an environmental literacy and green job training curriculum-development non-profit. The organization has had its curriculum implemented in over 300 high schools, job training programs, and secondary education institutions with over 10,000 graduates. Delta is utilizing data that Roots of Success collects from students, instructors, and other stakeholders to construct a comprehensive report that will highlight the impact of its curriculum.
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Partners in School Innovation is a national education reform non-profit headquartered in San Francisco that aims to transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools. Delta is aggregating data from various contact points into a dashboard to quickly gauge impact and identify action areas.
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