eMonitoring 'Social Impact Tracker'

Both Cúnamh ICT and the Tool Factory’s vision are to provide high quality, affordable tools and resources for Third Sector organisations. Cúnamh ICT and The Tool Factory have formed a partnership to market the eMonitoring tool across the Third Sector. Cúnamh ICT brings with the product, the development expertise, support, training and their local market. The Tool Factory brings their marketing expertise and their network of support organisations across England, Wales and Scotland.

Bev Meldrum from the Tool Factory says “One of the biggest areas of growth in the third sector is the interest in social accounting and reporting on social aims. Organisations are beginning to realise that they now have to prove their social impact and funders are searching for tools that will make their jobs easier and standardise the process of reporting on soft outcomes”.

Amongst eMonitoring many features organisations can record quantitative and qualitative data on their users, groups and activities, perform their own self-evaluation or measure distance travelled. It is viewed as a model of good practice within the NI sector and endorsed by funders/donors.

“We are very excited with the partnership with the Tool Factory. They are in contact with 800 community support organisations with on average have 200 members each. They recognise that there exists enormous potential for this product within GB”, says Peter MacCafferty from Cúnamh ICT. “The success of a product such as eMonitoring is based on educating the potential customer - in this case the support organisations including the CVSs. Once educated they will be in a better position to market the software to their members”.

For more information or online demos on eMonitoring and other products visit www.emonitoring.org or telephone 028 7130 8166.