The Australian Himalayan Foundation works in partnership with the people of the remote Himalaya to improve living standards through better education, training, improved health services and environmental sustainability.

D4G is working with the Australian Himalayan Foundation to improve the management of their education programs by developing a new data collection tool and data store.  As well as facilitating the data collection process, this tool will also reduce manual effort and help streamline compliance, accreditation and impact reporting to AHF donors.

Variety – the Children’s Charity supports kids who are living with disability, disadvantage or illness. In particular, Variety provide grants that fill funding gaps that allow kids to gain mobility, communicate, achieve independence, get out into the community and increase self-esteem.

Data4Good along with expert data science volunteers from Eliiza are working with Variety Victoria to increase their insights on how well their granting is meeting need. The project analysed Variety’s grant programmes to individual children over the past 7 years to highlight areas that may need increased focus and to ensure that there is no hidden bias. The project included cleaning data, exploratory data analysis, overlaying population data, developing visualisations including maps, writing a summary report and building interactive dashboards. Variety Victoria have been delighted with the breadth and depth of insights and we will continue to collaborate on new projects analysing new datasets.

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Kilfinan Australia offers the nation’s only free, bespoke and ongoing mentorship program for charity and for-purpose leaders and provides a link between for-purpose and for-profit organisations that unlocks enormous value for Australian communities.  But capturing and reporting the impact of mentoring presents unique challenges.  Data4Good and volunteers from specialist data science consultancy, Kadre, are working with Kilfinan Australia to ensure that impact data is measured, evaluated and communicated with integrity and in a way that reflects both the value provided and the organisation’s culture.

Candella believes that quality mental health services should be available to as many people as possible. They are a growing not for profit organisation that provides mental health support focusing on empowering individuals, building capacity, supporting independence and working collaboratively.

Data4Good’s first initiative with Candella is to help them update and streamline their reporting processes, meaning that they can spend more time on what they believe in and less time bringing information together from different sources. Our second initiative with Candella is to help them get insights on client satisfaction and to quantify the impact they have on their clients’ lives. The aim of both projects is to help Candella to be even more effective in changing people’s lives for the better.

Since 1994, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute‘s scientists have been conducting world class research into the many different types of heart disease. Heart research is vital as, in Australia and around the world, cardiovascular disease kills more people than any other disease or illness.

Data4Good volunteers are working with Emma from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, developing new, cutting edge tools to identify high volume and complex gene variations that may be linked to heart disease.  This involves developing new processing algorithms and software to joint-call DNA inversions. This is a complex, big data problem that will fill a gap in the rapidly evolving area of DNA structural variant research with the potential to enable earlier and more accurate diagnosis of genetic diseases.

​Interplast sends teams of volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and allied health professionals to provide life-changing surgery and medical training in 17 countries across the Asia Pacific region. ​

Data4Good is working with Interplast to improve the effectiveness of their programs through enabling better tracking of clinical trainees and  improving the trainee experience by developing new capabilities to capture trainee profiles and progress.

The Fred Hollows Foundation has a very clear goal: they’re putting an end to avoidable blindness. One of the organisations main driving principles is to end avoidable blindness and improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 94% of vision loss for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults is preventable or treatable.

Data4Good is excited to be working with the foundation and assisting in the fight to transform lives both in developing countries and for Indigenous Australians.

Take My Hands are an NZ-based not-for-profit who connect those in need of medical supplies with those that can provide them while taking advantage of spare shipping capacity. They’ve faced some challenges around asset management, maintaining velocity with automating data processes, and having ready access to up-to-date data.