Belfast event to explore grant information sharing
Howard Lake | 5 November 2015 | News
The Open Data Institute (ODI) in Belfast is hosting an event to explore how to create a data-sharing community among grant funders and grant seekers in Northern Ireland.
ODI Belfast, a new project established by the Northern Ireland Council on Voluntary Action (NICVA), works with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, government, businesses, and citizens across Northern Ireland to drive innovation, boost transparency and bring about social, economic and environmental change.
The free event on 10th November at NICVA’s offices will try to find out what grant funders can do to ensure their data is open and useful and how grant seekers can make a better use of their time and energy in finding and applying to funds.
ODI believes grant makers and charities generate large amounts of data through the course of their work and if this data could be shared and compared easily it could be useful to many other organisations, including charities, NGOs and other funders, enabling a better use of resources by everyone.
At the event will be a screening of the ODI Lunchtime Lecture on open data and grant funding, where 360 Giving explain how they work as a partnership with major grant funding bodies and Open Data Services Co-operative to develop an open data infrastructure and provide technical support for grant makers.
Alice Casey from 360 Giving will join via webcast to talk about how open collaboration can improve the insight that grant makers can gain on their impact and give guidance on the data standards that will help to improve the accurate, timely, useful and commonality of grant funding information.
Registration for the event is still open.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.