Survey On “Exchange”

Can you help us? A quick survey from the PDC [Ended August 2024]

The PDC is a sector-wide effort to change how we in philanthropy use and manage data. Launched in 2021 to explore how to ease the bureaucratic process of applying for grants. The PDC works with changemakers (organizations seeking grants), philanthropic funders, and technology vendors to solve data challenges and make the sharing of information simpler, and to address the secure sharing of data with consent across siloed institutions. Through shared governance and integrations, we expect the PDC to simplify basic tasks, connect systems, enable partners to build additional technology applications on PDC’s infrastructure, and leverage AI to address seemingly intractable problems. 

Does your organization receive funding through grants or awards?(Required)

Yes

Does your organization provide funding through grants to other organizations?(Required)

Yes

Are you a member of a funding collaborative?(Required)

Yes

Optional - What is your organization size? (staff, budget, or both?)

About Exchange - powered by the Philanthropy Data Commons (PDC)

We are pursuing the development of technology built on the PDC to connect changemakers’ proposal data across otherwise disconnected systems. In Exchange, changemakers would control how their proposal data and organization data are shared, increase their visibility to and connection with more funders, and avoid duplicate or inconsistent data in disconnected systems. Funders would also easily and securely surface authorized proposals and information about changemaker activity and needs using their own existing systems. Governed by a data use agreement among participating funders, changemakers, different grants management systems, and other data repositories, Exchange would offer a simple way to search and query proposal data and collaborate with others in funding changemakers.

Would Exchange be of interest to your organization?

Yes

Exchange Potential Benefits - Changemakers(Required)

As an organization applying for grants, your organization could benefit from Exchange to more easily share and update other systems in a distributed way vs. manually going to each separate funder grant system would be of interest, what features would be most important or compelling for you and your organization? (Check all that may apply)

Integration of Data - reduces the need for repetitive proposal data entry across multiple funder platforms

Streamlined Data Sharing - ability to reuse your data and reduce the need to provide the same data to slightly different funder questions.

Data Usage Agreement - you decide who sees what data about your organization

Grant Management Systems Connections - regardless of the various grants management systems funders have, your data can be leveraged for new opportunities and visibility when it’s passed through to the PDC with your consent.

Real-time Data and Notifications - update your data, and it can be shared, used for other funding opportunities, updated in other data repositories, and found by new funders.

Data Ownership and Preferences - you can always specify what parts of data about your organization or proposals should be shared or not.

Exchange Potential Benefits - Funders(Required)

As a funder to other organizations, what aspects of the Exchange would be most important or compelling for you and your organization? (Check all that may apply)

Integration of Data - increases visibility into changemakers working on relevant issues and facilitates collaboration with other funders.

Streamlined Data Sharing - improving the proposal process for your changemakers by leveraging common data from the PDC Exchange without sacrificing custom questions critical to your decision-making.

Data Use Agreement - no additional legal agreements necessary when working with other participating partners.

Grants Management Systems Connections - makes your grants management system more powerful. Leverage existing platforms you’ve invested in with open APIs, nothing new to buy

Real-time Data and Notifications - ability to pull up-to-date data for prospective grantees from data that changemakers used with other funders or from other data repositories.

Data Ownership Preferences - respects the data-sharing preferences set by changemakers. PDC Exchange manages this for you. You don’t have to remember what you can share and when.

Exchange Potential Benefits - Funder Collaboratives(Required)

As a funder to other organizations and part of funder collaborative, what aspects of the Exchange would be most important or compelling for you and your organization? (Check all that may apply)

Integration of Data - Exchange would act as a conduit between disparate systems, allowing for collective reporting and activity tracking.

Streamline Data Sharing - Exchange would enables members to share data with the group while maintaining specific individual requirements

Data Use Agreement - Exchange would accelerate collaboration and access to data essential to funders and changemakers.

Grants Management Systems Connections - Exchange shares between systems – reducing the need to improvise manual ways of sharing with collaborative funders.

Real-time Data and Notifications - visibility into the collective activities of the collaborative within each funder’s grants management system. No need to track collective activities through an additional system or an asynchronous spreadsheet.

Data Ownership and Preference - Exchange ensures collective benefits while respecting individual member requirements.

Are there any other features or ideas not mentioned that would ease or support your needs around handling of data requests with all the separate funders systems that Exchange could target?

If this offering would not be of interest, please let us know why, and perhaps, what could be of help for you around helping you gain more visibility and access to new funding opportunities?

Would you like to be added to the Philanthropy Data Commons mailing list to stay up to date on ways or participating, future plans, and our progress?

Yes

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