Get support with grants data

We’ve designed three resources to support you with planning and documenting your progress through the 360Giving data publishing process. 360Giving Publishing project plan What is it? This publishing project plan template is a practical resource designed to help you plan and execute the project of publishing grants data using 360Giving Data Standard. Who is it […]

Complete the form below to sign up for a widget. You will receive an email containing a link and credentials to access the widget builder and accompanying guidance so that you can create your own widget.

This step-by-step guidance is designed to help you if you use one of the three most common file-sharing services to host 360Giving data: Google Drive, Dropbox, and SharePoint. Google Drive Google provides users with the Google Drive service, offering 15GB of free storage space. To share a 360Giving data file using Google Drive, it must […]

Salesforce has built-in functionality that makes it possible to set up reports that can export grants data either fully or partially in the correct 360Giving data format. Depending on how your Salesforce system has been set up and who manages it, you have several options for setting up a report to prepare your 360Giving data. […]

Please fill out the form below to register with our Publisher Helpdesk. This is so we can provide you with a Publisher Logbook, containing identifiers for your organisation, which will be used in your data. Your answers will also help us to provide support to suit your needs, so please respond to as many questions […]

Look for opportunities to improve the quality of your grants data. Keep improving your data quality We hope that publishing your 360Giving data has helped you get to know what data your organisation holds, as well as better understand your systems and processes.  If you find that you need to spend a lot of time […]

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Explore your own grantmaking, or get a better understanding of the funding context. Build your data culture Every organisation has its own ‘data culture’, which is reflected in the values, behaviours and expectations you hold around collecting and using data. An organisation with a strong data culture will: If your organisation doesn’t have a strong […]

You can remove or make changes to your data at any time. Making changes to your published data After you’ve published your data, you may want to add new grants data, change some details or fix mistakes. You may also want to remove grants that were awarded but didn’t go ahead, or update grants that […]

If you haven’t done so already, now is a great time to write down all the steps you took to publish your grants data. This will make it easier for next time, especially if there are any staff changes.  You should make a note of things like: We’ve created a Publisher Logbook to help you […]

Get a custom widget to showcase your data on your website or intranet.  What is a widget? A widget is a small window that you can add to your website which usually displays some ‘live’ information. You might have seen organisation’s websites where a few of their recent social media posts appear on their homepage […]

You’ve done the hard work to publish your grants data, it’s time to share your achievement. Explore your data in our data tools The day after you’ve submitted a link to your data file to our Data Quality Dashboard, your grants will appear in our tools GrantNav and GrantVis. GrantNav GrantNav is our flagship search […]

Congratulations on publishing your 360Giving data!  Welcome to the open grants movement. You’ve joined more than 300 other funders by sharing your data, helping to make UK grantmaking become more informed, effective and strategic.   In this section, we’ll help you to wrap up your publishing process and get the most from your data. Step 1. […]

What happens now, and what to do next. What to expect when you publish your data Once you publish your 360Giving data, a few things will happen.  We will also send a congratulations email to the leadership contact you provided to us acknowledging your organisation’s achievement! Welcome to the open grants data movement You’ve joined […]

After you’ve made your 360Giving data file available online with an open license, there’s one last step: share a link to let us know where to find your data file. Submit your link to our data tools The 360Giving Data Quality Dashboard lists all the organisations that currently publish grants data using the 360Giving Data […]

Grants data published using the 360Giving Data Standard is open data. ‘Open’ means that anyone can freely access, use, change and share the data for any purpose. Publishing your 360Giving data under an open license is a simple way to let people know that they have permission to use the data, and share any conditions […]

Before you start this stage, you should have a file of ‘valid’ 360Giving data that has been checked using the 360Giving Data Quality Checker. You should be confident that the data is accurate. You should have removed any personal or sensitive data, or got permission to include it.  If you have done all these things, […]

Getting your data ready is the heart of the publishing process. It can seem daunting, but this guide will lead you through, step by step. Plus, we’ve got templates and tools to help you along. At the end of this stage, you’ll be able to test your data with our Data Quality Checker before you […]

Here’s a reminder of some of the ideas and concepts that we’ve introduced in this section.  Grants data Grants data usually refers to: If you don’t currently collect information about your grants, you will need to start gathering that data in order to publish 360Giving data. Grants management system Grants data is usually stored in […]

It’s time to register as a 360Giving Publisher. Once you have filled out our short form, we will send you a Publisher Logbook with your unique 360Giving Publisher Prefix, which will identify your organisation and your grants. You’ll also be able to access support from our Helpdesk. Remember: you’re not alone We hope you’ll be […]