SMU DataArts - Cultural Data Profile

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Grantmaker Services

Collect standardized data from your constituents to inform your planning and advocacy efforts with the Cultural Data Profile. Leverage our years of experience in data collection to access the information you need–in a consistent format that reflects the diversity and complexity of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations.   

Funders across the country integrate the Cultural Data Profile into their application processes to ensure consistent, reliable reporting that supports strategic research and advocacy. Service organizations also use the CDP to collect member data, eliminating guesswork from the process.  

Learn more about our services below. For pricing details, please contact businessdevelopment@culturaldata.org.

Grantmakers

Choose a participation package to incorporate the Cultural Data Profile:

Basic Service
  • Choose one of three stock Funder Reports to review applicant information
  • Includes set up, implementation, and launch support  
Full Service
  • Work with DataArts nonprofit finance and technical specialists to choose the Funder Report that best suits your needs
  • Includes set up, implementation, and launch support  
  • Unlimited  self-service access to data:  
    1. All applicant  data and progress toward completion
    2. Analytic reports
    3. Aggregated  national data for comparison
    4. Data exports
  • Orientation to  the grantmaker dashboard
  • Grantmaker Support Center live agent access
  • DataArts account manager
  • Subscription to  the Cultural Data Profile Application Program Interface (API). This integrates CDP submission progress and applicant information into your grants management system and gives you access to continuously updated, real time reporting.
  • Two training sessions for applicants, staff or grant panels, or eight hours of data preparation
á-la-carte Options
  • Funder Report customization
  • Unlimited self-service access to data:  
    1. All applicant data and progress toward completion
    2. Analytic reports
    3. Aggregated national data for comparison
    4. Data exports
  • A list module allows grantmakers to create a query based on a set of criteria that will be saved in the system. The queries can be shared with other users within your organization.
  • Online or in-person trainings for your applicants, staff, or grant panels  
  • Data processing and/or preparation  
  • An Advocacy Portal offers access to aggregated information in a customizable report. This portal allows our partner service organizations to access and use the lists functionality to build Advocacy Lists, which can be used to run reports on aggregate information for organizations in the list.

Arts Service Organizations

Streamline your annual member survey by integrating it with the Cultural Data Profile. Your members save time and effort by answering common questions once, gain access to their data on one easy-to-use platform, and benefit from DataArts analytics, training, educational resources and support. You benefit from more reliable information, a management dashboard, DataArts’s expert support, and hassle-free administration.

Survey Hosting Package
  • Implementation and launch support
  • Data and lists access with unlimited self-service access
    1. Members’ Data Profiles and progress toward completion
    2. Analytic reports
      • Aggregated national data for comparison
      • Member data exports (CSV and Excel)
      • Lists module
á-la-carte Options
  • Custom survey questions module
  • Data processing and/or preparation
  • Custom analysis or research reports
  • Training sessions for members or staff [Link to training]
  • Advocacy Portal
  • API access

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