360 Giving encourages grantmakers to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data and to use the data as part of a more innovative and informed approach to grantmaking. This deck was presented at the Kingston Data Hack day in Kingston on the 12th June 2018.

1. 360Giving
Open data for more effective grantmaking
@360Givin
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2. What we do
We support grantmakers to publish their grants data
openly, to understand their data and to use the data as
part of a more innovative and informed approach to
grantmaking.

3. UK grantmaking in numbers 2015/6
166k = UK charities
390k = Civil society organisations
£3.3bn = Government grants to voluntary sector
£2.9bn = Grants awarded by Top 300 foundations
Sources: NCVO Almanac 2018, ACF Foundation Giving Trends 2017

4. Data to help answer questions
Who else is funding these organisations/sectors?
I care about x region - is enough funding going there?
How can I make my applications more targeted?
Am I duplicating work that others are doing?

5. Imagine if it was as easy as this
Coastal communities?

6. Publishing data to the 360 Standard

7. 360Giving Standard:
What do we mean?
“Open data and content can be freely used,
modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose”
http://opendefinition.org/

8. Simple standardisation -
thousands of uses

9. 10 items… or more
Answering the key questions: who, what, when and how much?
And if possible;
You
(Funder)
Who?
(Recipient)
When?
(Dates)
Where?
(Location)
What?
(Purpose)
Amount?
(£)

10. The more you add
the more powerful it is
Publish what you can, adding more at your own pace
Beneficiary
location
Grant
programme
Categories
Website
addresses

11. Publishing via a spreadsheet

12. Publishers own their data
Data files are
made available
via publisher
website.
https://www.lovekingston.org.uk/creating-change/open-data/

13. Using the data
http://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org

14. Supporting grantseekers
https://www.beehivegiving.org/

15. Analysing the data
Credit: OCSI Local Insight tool http://ocsi.uk/2017/06/14/find-out-how-much-big-
lottery-funding-is-spent-in-your-local-areas/
Credit: Austin Rodriguez, Birmingham City Council
“It’s about having the conversations we’ve never been able
to have before…we literally used to say that we can’t
discuss these questions because we don’t know anything”.
Dipali Chandra from Charitable Trusts West Midlands

16. Visualisation tools
Credit: Mor Rubinstein using https://onodo.org/
https://onodo.org/visualizations/32366

17. Credit: Mor Rubinstein using https://infogram.com
https://infogram.com/localcharitiesday-1h0r6rvo7rww2ek

18. Taking a data expedition

19. https://challenge.threesixtygiving.org/

20. Exploring the data with GrantNav -
http://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org

21. GrantNav filters
GrantNav filter 360Giving Standard field
Amount Awarded Amount Awarded
Award Year The year from Award Date field
Recipient Region Derived from 360Giving data (Postcode or Geocodes)
Recipient District Derived from 360Giving data (Postcode or Geocodes)
Funding Organisations Funding Org:Name
Recipient Organisations Recipient Org:Name

22. Keyword searching
Simple ways to target your free text searches:
● A single word: e.g. people
● Multiple words: e.g. young people gardens
(each word does not necessarily have to be present)
● Require each word to be found: e.g. young AND people
● An exact phrase by enclosing it in quotes: e.g. "young people"

23. Advanced keyword searches
Search words and phrases limited to a specific field, for example:
● description:homelessness will search the "description" field for the
word "homelessness"
● recipientOrganization.postalCode:KT1 will search the for recipients
within the “KT1" postcode district (where the field is populated)
● fundingOrganization.name:"London Councils" will search the "Funding
Organisation:Name" field for "London Councils"
NB: The field names used must match the machine-readable field names. You can find these listed on GrantNav:
http://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/stats

24. ● Discuss with colleagues - come and speak to us
● Check out our tools and platforms
● Hold a Data Expedition
● Tell us what would be useful for you
www.threesixtygiving.org
info@threesixtygiving.org
@360Giving
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