Alexandra Pittman is the Founder and CEO of ImpactMapper, an online tool for donors, nonprofits, and impact companies to track and visualize their social impact. Alexandra has a PhD from Boston College and held a postdoctoral, Senior Research Fellow position at Harvard University, researching the role of brand in international nonprofits and philanthropies. She has also run a successful consulting business for 15 years working with a range of clients in the donor and nonprofit sectors from UN agencies, impact investors, accelerators, foundations, international NGOs, social enterprises to small grassroots groups in different countries.
Alexandra has helped diverse groups and networks track progress and change related to sustainability and global development, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has developed tools and methods to track the most difficult processes to measure, such as furthering women's rights and social justice initiatives—changes that often take longer to transpire because they are focused on transforming deep-rooted social norms and inequalities. Her approach is comprehensive and nuanced, blending diverse data sources, text, stories and quantitative metrics, to tell the whole impact story.
Alexandra supports organizations to make better use of their existing research and data on social change and impact, to collect data more efficiently and effectively in the future, and to set up monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, and metrics that matter. Her advisement work has a deep focus on supporting groups to use data for learning and action to improve programming and strategy and to help communicate results and share data-driven stories to increase funding for organizations and companies.
