April 2024
Funders’ Perspectives on Nonprofit Data
As part of the 2024 West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, hosted by the ASU Lodestar Center in April, we presented “Funders’ Perspectives on Nonprofit Data.” Representing a diverse set of views from across the funding landscape, panelists shared how they think about data and its use to inform grantmaking decisions and evaluate results. They included Jon Ehlinger, president of the Garcia Family Foundation; Erin Goodman, senior program officer for the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust; and David Martinez III, director of capacity building and community engagement for Vitalyst Health Foundation. Kim Covington, Arizona Community Foundation’s vice president of community initiatives, served as moderator.