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What resources might be repurposed or leveraged? A free tool to share & find resources
Our vision is for widespread, scalable application of tri-sector solutions, solving problems across the country, in every city or region, in a wide range of impact areas.
To foster such solutions, we must first reimagine, repurpose, and realign resources that already exist. And to do that, we must first know what resources exist and where they are, as well as how they might align.
Resources are not generally catalogued or organized in a way that supports finding and aligning them. Tools are needed to map, organize, and find/discover resources — this is why we created the NewImpact Wiki.
The NewImpact Wiki is a growing free and open online catalogue of companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, including their resources, tagged by geography, population served, and impact area.
Repurposing and aligning resources is central to addressing complex problems, and our aim for the wiki is to build a free, expansive directory of resources that is free and accessible to everyone and supports a growing ecosystem of innovation with impact.
At scale, we envision a searchable, global wiki where every government department and program (national, regional, state, city), every business (multi-nationals and startups), every nonprofit (international and local) and every institution (universities, museums, medical centers) has its own landing page with information and resources. The potential is vast. There are thousands of solutions to be discovered in the data.
Current NewImpact Wiki data include:
How it works
Data in the NewImpact Wiki are stored in a database and accessed via two main interfaces:
The NewImpact Wiki editing interface allows anyone to create or update information about an organization, program, or resource through a series of forms.
Today the wiki data is primarily created and maintained by contributors working on tri-sector projects, based on information publicly available about organizations. Over time this information will also be entered by automated bots, and anyone interested in contributing or editing information.
Eventually, data will also include data from and links to open data sources about organizations and resources, for example , , , and more.
Currently the editing interface is a separate interface from the visualization interface, our plan is to support a more integrated view in the future.
The NewImpact Wiki Dashboard allows anyone to explore information in the wiki using interactive data visualizations.
The interactive visualizations allow anyone to intuitively explore or search data in the NewImpact Wiki to uncover resources, organizations, and patterns.
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TLDR
Needs addressed by
NewImpact Wiki
Innovators looking for aligned orgs:
Innovators looking for resources & data:
Using the NewImpact Wiki Dashboard, it is possible to :
The dashboard surfaces resources and organizations that may be a good fit for an innovation with impact. It’s also a helpful way to identify abundance or gaps in resources in impact areas, sectors, and/or geographies. In a future version, a recommendation engine will suggest related filters and searches.
Screenshots of three of the filtering options in . Click image for expanded view🔎
At NewImpact we often start a solutioning exercise by exploring who is ‘on the team’, or, put another way, who has a footprint in a given impact area, be it positive or negative.
Filtering by impact area in the NewImpact Wiki Dashboard populates a word cloud and tables with organizations ‘on the team’ from all sectors (depending upon the filters set) and information about each organization’s programs and resources.
Screenshot of organization word cloud in NewImpact Wiki Dashboard. Click image for expanded view🔎
Screenshot of table with organizations, programs and resources in . Click image for expanded view 🔎
Using the resource and dataset visualizations in the dashboard, you can drill down into resources and data sets to find resources that match your needs OR explore the range of resources and datasets to find patterns and opportunities.
expanded view🔎
By exploring impact area visualizations in the dashboard, you can find organization alignment, impact area overlap, patterns in adjacent impact areas, and uncover additional orgs and resources to explore.
Wiki data (current)
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NewImpact Wiki - Current vs Future
Help Needed
Database
Information architecture and data science
Design
Development (full-stack)
Technology stack review and recommendations
Thank you to the funders of this work
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