Our journey to create an esy-to-use online tool for citizen initiatives to report their performance and impact started almost a year ago! A team of dedicated volunteers worked with small organisations and did extensive research into what funders want to understand what such a tool would do.
Then our first dedicated Impact Platform volunteer, Valentina, worked with a developer to make it a reality!
When Francesca joined the team a few months ago, the main goal became to create a process to introduce potential user organisations to the tool and train our whole team alongside. This includes meticulous documentation that also allowed anyone joining the Impact Platform team afterwards to be able to continue the work.
Onboarding the first 2 organisations
We are currently working with two organisations to test the platform. They are both citizen initiatives working with the asylum-seeking, migrant and refugee population in Athens and are addressing important challenges that come with living as an asylum-seeker, refugee or migrant in a European city. They are going beyond the initial emergency aid into the issues that affect integration and inclusion.
Hestia Hellas
Hestia Hellas provides mental health services in Athens, especially to families. They have a diverse range of services, from 1-on-1 counselling services to employability trainings and a child-friendly space. Their goal is to heal the trauma that comes from displacement and the limbo state cause by asylum procedures.
Hestia Hellas was the first organisation to start using the platform. We assisted them with the process of gathering all information about their work and impact so far and coached them on how the platform works.
Find out more about Hestia Hellas here: www.hestiahellas.org
Velos Youth
An rganisation supporting specifically young single men living in precarious conditions and homelessness in Athens from 16 to 21. They are one of the most vulnerable population as very few services are designed with them in mind and they can easily fall pray to criminalisation and prostitution.
The team is currently is working with our Impact Platform team to gather and organise all their data from the past 2-3 years of operations and start using their dashboard.
Find out more about their work here: velosyouth.org
Where are we now?
Lessons learned so far
Our team is evolving
To simplify the work for our team, we've split the Impact Platform role into two parts:
Looking at the next organisation
Our next goal is to identify the next organisation that would like to receive the training and start using the platform. We hope to start publishing reports on the aggregated impact citizen organisations are having based on the numbers and data they are collecting on the platform!
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