NewImpact Wiki

⁠

⁠

⁠

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:

794,838 organizations mapped to impact areas

76,559 mapped resources

54,947 mapped datasets

How it works

Data in the NewImpact Wiki are stored in a database and accessed via two main interfaces:

a cloud-based wiki editing interface for entering/editing information into the wiki database about organizations and their resources

cloud-based wiki data dashboard with interactive visualizations of wiki data to help surface resources and organizations that may be a good fit for an innovation with impact.

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

OpenCorporates

⁠

,

Wikidata

⁠

,

public data

⁠

, and more.

⁠

⁠

⁠

Screenshot of current

NewImpact Wiki editing interface

⁠

. Click image for expanded view🔎

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.

⁠

⁠

⁠

Watch Video Demo of Wiki in Action

⁠

Request Access to NewImpact Wiki (Free)

⁠

⁠

TLDR

NewImpact Wiki is a free online directory of orgs and their resources

Designed to share and help uncover strategic resources and ‘teammates’ via cloud based forms and visualizations

Data tagged with geography, population served, and impact area

Currently wiki data is primarily created and maintained by contributors

NewImpact Wiki current data:

794,838 organizations mapped to impact areas

76,559 mapped resources

54,947 mapped datasets

Needs addressed by

NewImpact Wiki

Innovators looking for aligned orgs:​

How can I find orgs and programs from all sectors with a footprint in my impact area?

What other impact areas might lead to more connections, opportunities and resources?

Where are there potential partners or allies ​locally or in other regions?

Who else is working in this impact are at scaleor with this specific population?

How can my organization become part of a tri-sector solution?

Innovators looking for resources & data:​

What resources and data from all sectors might I repurpose and realign for impact?

What does the regional or sectoral landscape of resources (and orgs) for my impact area ​look like?

Where can I find specific resources needed for my business model?

What resources and data are available in ‘x’ industry?

Where are there resource and data gaps that may represent opportunities?

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

Stack

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

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠

⁠