Charting Impact: Findings from the COVID Dashboard and Lessons for the Road Ahead

The unprecedented scale of COVID-19’s effects means that funders everywhere need better tools to understand how their philanthropic funds can best help. Between April and July of 2020, the team at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP), in partnership with Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia (Philanthropy Network), developed the regional COVID-19 Response Dashboard (www.impact.upenn.edu/toolkits/covid-response-dashboard). The dashboard is one of the first efforts we are aware of to collect data at the level of individual grant awards from more than a dozen shared funds and then visualize that data against census-tract level indicators of community need.