Impact & Insights

Data Insights

About our Learning Framework
Welborn believes that learning is the key to making informed decisions and ensuring continuous improvement. We engage in regular evaluation and learning activities to contribute insights into the fields of Early Education, Healthy Communities, Christ-Centered Communities, and Nonprofit Excellence and to help us, our grantees, and our region better understand the impact of collective contributions.

We learn from three key sources of information:

Partnership Outcomes

From our grantee partners, we learn about what’s changing in the people, places, and issues we both care about. We seek to better understand these changes and our grantee partners’ successes and challenges along the way. Through evaluation of Nonprofit Excellence opportunities, we learn along side nonprofits about their progress towards becoming stronger organizations.

Community Level Data

Community level data provides the opportunity to understand how issues are trending in the field. When ongoing, locally relevant sources are available, we use them to identify the most critical issues and we monitor them over time. The Foundation’s primary source of community level data is the Grow regional data system – SAVI. (publicly available at growcapacity.info)

Custom Survey Research

Where data does not already exist, or is scarce for our areas of interest, the Foundation invests in custom survey research. Currently, the Foundation commissions a Greater Evansville Health Survey, Greater Evansville Faith & Flourishing Survey specifically for faith leader audiences, and a Greater Evansville Nonprofit Survey. Each survey is commissioned roughly every five years. See what we’re learning through the survey reports below.

Surveys & Data Resources

The resources below represent the Foundation’s commitment to add information of value to the community without duplicating existing resources. We determine survey and paper projects based on alignment to our priority areas of interest, as well as availability and quality of existing information. We offer these resources to help the region learn about critical issues, monitor change over time and make informed decisions that will contribute to community progress.