Seer Data and How Might We Community partner to strengthen community-led change across the UK.
Helping communities use data, learning and collaboration to create lasting change.
Seer Data and How Might We Community are partnering to help charities, funders, local authorities, employers and community organisations across the UK to seed systems change from the grass roots up.
This partnership brings together Seer Data’s proven data infrastructure with How Might We Community’s place-based approach to collaboration, learning and capability building.
Together, we want to make it easier for communities to understand local need, share insight, measure what is changing, and turn evidence into action.
At a time when many communities are facing complex and connected challenges, this collaboration represents an important opportunity: to help people working closest to those challenges access the relationships, tools and support they need to create deeper, fairer and more lasting change.
Why this partnership matters now
Across the UK, there is growing recognition that communities need more than short-term projects, disconnected funding streams or isolated organisational reporting.
They need shared data and evidence infrastructure: practical, trusted and open enough to help people learn together, make better decisions, align resources and build lasting community power.
Recent calls across philanthropy, civil society and government point in the same direction: towards more open knowledge, stronger place-based investment, cross-sector partnerships and a deeper transfer of power, agency and control to communities.
Seer Data and How Might We Community offer a practical response to that shift.
This partnership is about helping communities build the data, learning and collaboration infrastructure needed to make that ambition real.
The challenge we are responding to
Across the UK, charities, funders, public bodies and community organisations are working hard to improve lives. But too often, the data that could help them learn, collaborate and make better decisions is fragmented, disconnected or difficult to use.
Organisations may be collecting valuable information, but that insight often stays locked inside separate systems, reports or spreadsheets. This makes it harder to see the bigger picture: what is working, where gaps exist, how needs are changing and where collective action could make the greatest difference.
Seer Data and How Might We Community believe that communities should be able to use data in ways that are practical, ethical, accessible and rooted in local priorities.
Technology alone does not create change. Communities do. But the right data infrastructure, combined with trusted relationships and shared learning, can help communities move faster, act with confidence and tell a stronger story about the difference they are making.
What each partner brings
Seer Data
Seer Data is an Australian purpose-led technology company helping not-for-profits, place-based initiatives, philanthropists, corporates and governments turn data into action for impact.
Through Seer Communities, organisations can bring together local, organisational and open data; create dashboards and reports; measure outcomes; share insight; and communicate impact in clear and compelling ways.
Seer Communities is a data and impact storytelling platform designed to make data more accessible for non-technical users while supporting strong governance, privacy and security.
How Might We Community
How Might We Community is a North East England impact venture helping charities, funders, employers, civic institutions and data professionals use shared data, learning and collaboration to create fairer, happier and more prosperous communities.
How Might We Community creates the human conditions for data sharing to work: trusted relationships, shared purpose, practical capability building, cohort design, skilled data support and learning spaces that help people move from insight to action.
Learning from place-based infrastructure in Australia
Seer Data’s work in Australia is already demonstrating how shared data infrastructure can support place-based change.
Seer Data’s partnership with PLACE Australia offers an important reference point for the UK. PLACE brings together communities, educators, government agencies and philanthropic stakeholders to strengthen decision-making, direct resources and support better outcomes for children and communities.
Through the Seer Data and How Might We Community partnership, we hope to learn from and emulate that kind of infrastructure investment in the UK: not by importing a model wholesale, but by working with UK communities, funders and partners to build something rooted in local context, trust and shared purpose.
What we are building together
The partnership combines three connected elements.
1. Shared data and interoperability infrastructure
Through Seer Communities, partners can bring together organisational, open and community-level data; create dashboards and reports; measure outcomes; and communicate impact in clear and compelling ways.
This does not mean organisations need to abandon the tools they already use.
Instead, the aim is to create the connectors, shared data models and practical insight layer that allow different systems, datasets and partners to work together more effectively.
This can support individual organisations as well as funder portfolios, place-based partnerships and thematic cohorts working together around shared outcomes.
2. Cohort design and implementation support
How Might We Community helps partners design and implement the conditions needed for data sharing to succeed.
This includes shaping shared outcomes, agreeing what data matters, building trust between partners, supporting adoption and helping organisations use insight in everyday decision-making.
3. Data capability and cross-sector learning
Through How Might We Community’s Data Leadership Exchange, charities and community organisations can connect with skilled data professionals and employers who want their leaders to engage in meaningful CPD and contribute expertise for social good.
This creates practical value for communities while helping professionals and employers build skills, purpose and social impact.
Tech as a connector not a monolith
Many impact organisations are already using a mix of tools and technologies: case management systems, CRMs, spreadsheets, survey tools, finance systems, public datasets, dashboards and funder reporting templates.
The answer is not to replace those systems with one large platform.
For many communities and partnerships, the more useful task is to create the connective tissue between them: the shared data models, APIs, connectors, taxonomies, dashboards and learning processes that allow existing systems to speak to each other more effectively.
That is how Seer Data and How Might We Community are approaching this work.
Seer Data provide the shared data and insight infrastructure that helps partners bring together organisational, open and community-level data in one place. How Might We Community supports the human, practical and governance work needed to make that infrastructure useful, trusted and adopted.
Together, we want to help communities move from fragmented data and disconnected tools towards a more interoperable ecosystem: one where different organisations can keep using the systems that work for them, while still contributing to a shared picture of need, activity, outcomes and learning.
This is not about building a new technology monolith.
It is about helping communities flexibly connect what already exists, fill the gaps where needed, and create the shared infrastructure required for better decisions, stronger collaboration, community-led storytelling and deeper impact.
Who this partnership is for
This partnership is for organisations and cohorts that want to use data to strengthen community-led change, including:
- charities and community organisations;
- funders and philanthropic organisations;
- place-based partnerships;
- local authorities and civic institutions;
- social infrastructure and systems-change networks;
- employers seeking meaningful leadership development and social value opportunities for their tech and data talent;
- data professionals who want to use their skills for good.
It may be especially useful if you are:
- building a local or thematic partnership;
- supporting a portfolio of charities or community organisations;
- trying to understand shared need across a place or system;
- improving impact measurement and reporting;
- developing a shared evidence base;
- exploring how data can support collaboration, funding decisions or service improvement.
A UK partnership rooted in learning
Seer Data and How Might We Community are using this partnership to learn with UK communities, funders and system partners.
Kristi Mansfield, Founder of Seer Data, will visit the UK in June and will join Hannah Underwood, founder of How Might We Community, to meet with charities, funders, civic partners, employers and data leaders to explore where and how shared data infrastructure could support real community priorities.
The aim is to start with communities, understand what they are trying to change, and support with the right data, learning and collaboration infrastructure around that purpose.
This is also an opportunity to explore what responsible infrastructure investment could look like in the UK: investment that strengthens communities’ ability to understand their own needs, tell their own stories, make collective decisions and shape the systems that affect their lives.
Our shared belief
Communities should not have to choose between powerful data and human-centred change.
They need both.
They need tools that make insight easier to access and use. They need trusted spaces where people can learn together. They need support to build confidence, capability and shared ownership. And they need ways to show funders, partners and communities what is changing over time.
Seer Data and How Might We Community are partnering because we believe the UK has a major opportunity to strengthen community-led change through better data, deeper collaboration and shared learning.
This is the beginning of that work.
Seer Data and How Might We Community partner to strengthen community-led change across the UK.
Helping communities use data, learning and collaboration to create lasting change.
Seer Data and How Might We Community are partnering to help charities, funders, local authorities, employers and community organisations across the UK to seed systems change from the grass roots up.
This partnership brings together Seer Data’s proven data infrastructure with How Might We Community’s place-based approach to collaboration, learning and capability building.
Together, we want to make it easier for communities to understand local need, share insight, measure what is changing, and turn evidence into action.
At a time when many communities are facing complex and connected challenges, this collaboration represents an important opportunity: to help people working closest to those challenges access the relationships, tools and support they need to create deeper, fairer and more lasting change.
Why this partnership matters now
Across the UK, there is growing recognition that communities need more than short-term projects, disconnected funding streams or isolated organisational reporting.
They need shared data and evidence infrastructure: practical, trusted and open enough to help people learn together, make better decisions, align resources and build lasting community power.
Recent calls across philanthropy, civil society and government point in the same direction: towards more open knowledge, stronger place-based investment, cross-sector partnerships and a deeper transfer of power, agency and control to communities.
Seer Data and How Might We Community offer a practical response to that shift.
This partnership is about helping communities build the data, learning and collaboration infrastructure needed to make that ambition real.
The challenge we are responding to
Across the UK, charities, funders, public bodies and community organisations are working hard to improve lives. But too often, the data that could help them learn, collaborate and make better decisions is fragmented, disconnected or difficult to use.
Organisations may be collecting valuable information, but that insight often stays locked inside separate systems, reports or spreadsheets. This makes it harder to see the bigger picture: what is working, where gaps exist, how needs are changing and where collective action could make the greatest difference.
Seer Data and How Might We Community believe that communities should be able to use data in ways that are practical, ethical, accessible and rooted in local priorities.
Technology alone does not create change. Communities do. But the right data infrastructure, combined with trusted relationships and shared learning, can help communities move faster, act with confidence and tell a stronger story about the difference they are making.
What each partner brings
Seer Data
Seer Data is an Australian purpose-led technology company helping not-for-profits, place-based initiatives, philanthropists, corporates and governments turn data into action for impact.
Through Seer Communities, organisations can bring together local, organisational and open data; create dashboards and reports; measure outcomes; share insight; and communicate impact in clear and compelling ways.
Seer Communities is a data and impact storytelling platform designed to make data more accessible for non-technical users while supporting strong governance, privacy and security.
How Might We Community
How Might We Community is a North East England impact venture helping charities, funders, employers, civic institutions and data professionals use shared data, learning and collaboration to create fairer, happier and more prosperous communities.
How Might We Community creates the human conditions for data sharing to work: trusted relationships, shared purpose, practical capability building, cohort design, skilled data support and learning spaces that help people move from insight to action.
Learning from place-based infrastructure in Australia
Seer Data’s work in Australia is already demonstrating how shared data infrastructure can support place-based change.
Seer Data’s partnership with PLACE Australia offers an important reference point for the UK. PLACE brings together communities, educators, government agencies and philanthropic stakeholders to strengthen decision-making, direct resources and support better outcomes for children and communities.
Through the Seer Data and How Might We Community partnership, we hope to learn from and emulate that kind of infrastructure investment in the UK: not by importing a model wholesale, but by working with UK communities, funders and partners to build something rooted in local context, trust and shared purpose.
What we are building together
The partnership combines three connected elements.
1. Shared data and interoperability infrastructure
Through Seer Communities, partners can bring together organisational, open and community-level data; create dashboards and reports; measure outcomes; and communicate impact in clear and compelling ways.
This does not mean organisations need to abandon the tools they already use.
Instead, the aim is to create the connectors, shared data models and practical insight layer that allow different systems, datasets and partners to work together more effectively.
This can support individual organisations as well as funder portfolios, place-based partnerships and thematic cohorts working together around shared outcomes.
2. Cohort design and implementation support
How Might We Community helps partners design and implement the conditions needed for data sharing to succeed.
This includes shaping shared outcomes, agreeing what data matters, building trust between partners, supporting adoption and helping organisations use insight in everyday decision-making.
3. Data capability and cross-sector learning
Through How Might We Community’s Data Leadership Exchange, charities and community organisations can connect with skilled data professionals and employers who want their leaders to engage in meaningful CPD and contribute expertise for social good.
This creates practical value for communities while helping professionals and employers build skills, purpose and social impact.
Tech as a connector not a monolith
Many impact organisations are already using a mix of tools and technologies: case management systems, CRMs, spreadsheets, survey tools, finance systems, public datasets, dashboards and funder reporting templates.
The answer is not to replace those systems with one large platform.
For many communities and partnerships, the more useful task is to create the connective tissue between them: the shared data models, APIs, connectors, taxonomies, dashboards and learning processes that allow existing systems to speak to each other more effectively.
That is how Seer Data and How Might We Community are approaching this work.
Seer Data provide the shared data and insight infrastructure that helps partners bring together organisational, open and community-level data in one place. How Might We Community supports the human, practical and governance work needed to make that infrastructure useful, trusted and adopted.
Together, we want to help communities move from fragmented data and disconnected tools towards a more interoperable ecosystem: one where different organisations can keep using the systems that work for them, while still contributing to a shared picture of need, activity, outcomes and learning.
This is not about building a new technology monolith.
It is about helping communities flexibly connect what already exists, fill the gaps where needed, and create the shared infrastructure required for better decisions, stronger collaboration, community-led storytelling and deeper impact.
Who this partnership is for
This partnership is for organisations and cohorts that want to use data to strengthen community-led change, including:
- charities and community organisations;
- funders and philanthropic organisations;
- place-based partnerships;
- local authorities and civic institutions;
- social infrastructure and systems-change networks;
- employers seeking meaningful leadership development and social value opportunities for their tech and data talent;
- data professionals who want to use their skills for good.
It may be especially useful if you are:
- building a local or thematic partnership;
- supporting a portfolio of charities or community organisations;
- trying to understand shared need across a place or system;
- improving impact measurement and reporting;
- developing a shared evidence base;
- exploring how data can support collaboration, funding decisions or service improvement.
A UK partnership rooted in learning
Seer Data and How Might We Community are using this partnership to learn with UK communities, funders and system partners.
Kristi Mansfield, Founder of Seer Data, will visit the UK in June and will join Hannah Underwood, founder of How Might We Community, to meet with charities, funders, civic partners, employers and data leaders to explore where and how shared data infrastructure could support real community priorities.
The aim is to start with communities, understand what they are trying to change, and support with the right data, learning and collaboration infrastructure around that purpose.
This is also an opportunity to explore what responsible infrastructure investment could look like in the UK: investment that strengthens communities’ ability to understand their own needs, tell their own stories, make collective decisions and shape the systems that affect their lives.
Our shared belief
Communities should not have to choose between powerful data and human-centred change.
They need both.
They need tools that make insight easier to access and use. They need trusted spaces where people can learn together. They need support to build confidence, capability and shared ownership. And they need ways to show funders, partners and communities what is changing over time.
Seer Data and How Might We Community are partnering because we believe the UK has a major opportunity to strengthen community-led change through better data, deeper collaboration and shared learning.
This is the beginning of that work.