Standing Out in STEM: How EnCorps Elevates Skill Development with Data-Driven Insights

Encorps

Case Study: EnCorps

Background

EnCorps advocates for STEM educational equity, driven by the belief that students from traditionally underrepresented communities deserve access to high-quality STEM education. The organization prepares STEM role models to educate and inspire students who often lack equitable opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Challenge

While EnCorps had embraced a data-driven approach, storing significant student success data in Salesforce and collecting student feedback via SurveyMonkey, the organization faced hurdles in effectively utilizing this information. The main challenges included:

• Integrating diverse data sources such as Salesforce, surveys, and spreadsheets.
• Identifying meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with their strategic goals.
• Delivering clear, concise reports to stakeholders that highlight the impact of their unique STEM program, differentiating it from for-profit STEM initiatives.

The organization sought to quantify its impact on the STEM education landscape but struggled with these integration and reporting complexities.

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Solution

To address these challenges, EnCorps partnered with Sopact to streamline their data management and impact reporting processes.

1. Impact Strategy Development: Sopact collaborated with EnCorps to design a comprehensive impact strategy, carefully mapping data sources and aligning them with EnCorps' goals.
2. Data Integration and Optimization: Sopact's advanced data pipeline enabled seamless integration of diverse data sources, including Salesforce and public datasets, optimizing the flow of information and eliminating manual processes.
3. Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting: EnCorps leveraged Sopact’s platform to generate press releases and reports, providing transparent insights to donors and enhancing data-driven decision-making across their programs.

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Outcome

With Sopact’s solutions, EnCorps was able to centralize and harmonize their data, allowing them to generate real-time insights and reports. This streamlined approach empowered EnCorps to showcase their unique contributions to STEM education with precision, ensuring stakeholders and donors could easily understand their impact. Through optimized data integration, EnCorps now efficiently communicates the value of its STEM programs, setting a new standard for nonprofit transparency and operational efficiency.

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Results

Now EnCorps tracks how its programs deliver on the promise of STEM educational equity for students who lack access to a high-quality STEM education.
This core results dashboard served as a narrative of EnCorps’ impact, supporting their mission with hard evidence such as relationships to tutoring hours and diagnostic scores is facilitating strategic planning.

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Now, EnCorps keep an eye on key questions such as,
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1. Does the tutor-student relationship impact learning?
2. What is the correlation between tutoring hours and math scores.
3. How does math tutoring develop “soft” skills?

EnCorps Insights with Sopact

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