Bhumi

About Bhumi

Founded in 2006, Bhumi is one of India’s largest independent volunteer-driven non-profit organisations. Their work focuses on two core areas:

• Providing quality education to underprivileged children

• Promoting civic volunteering to tackle complex social challenges

In 2023–24, Bhumi’s education programmes supported over 150,000 children across India, helping them build a brighter future. Through their civic volunteering platform, more than 200,000 volunteers in over 12 cities contributed to causes such as education, the environment, animal welfare, and community development.

Key Goals for This Project

The main objectives of the visualisation will be:

• To show the impact created by volunteers in a manner that’s inspiring and validating for them

• To show the impact created by volunteers in a way that donors find meaningful and impactful

• To understand what activities engage volunteers best, and what volunteers find meaningful and inspiring

• To derive insights from trends in volunteering—by time of year, location, etc.

Support Sought

Bhumi is seeking support with data visualisation for multiple initiatives:

Bhumi Fellowship

Part of their Whole School Transformation Programme, the Fellowship develops future change leaders through capacity building, training, and grassroots engagement. It addresses immediate educational needs in government schools while laying the foundation for long-term systemic change.

Bhumi Catalyse

Their civic volunteering programme, Catalyse, promotes deeper civic participation as a means to address India’s complex social issues. The programme also includes a leadership track to empower volunteers to lead positive change in their communities.

Key Metrics / KPIs

• Outputs and outcomes driven by volunteers

• Insights on volunteering trends

Design Preferences

Please see Bhumi’s brand guidelines here.

Future Use and Impact

The visualisations will be used by:

• Bhumi’s Fundraising teams, to showcase the impact of volunteering programmes and help raise funds

• Bhumi’s Volunteer teams, to highlight achievements, boost morale, and increase volunteer engagement

Timeline and Milestones

• Daan Utsav, a festival of giving celebrated in India in the first week of October, would be an ideal time to showcase volunteer achievements.

• The donor renewal process begins around December, so having material on volunteer impact available by then would be beneficial.

Current Use of Data for Decision-Making

In the Fellowship programme, Bhumi uses a Red-Amber-Green (RAG) dashboard to identify underperforming schools and define action plans aimed at improving outcomes.

For Catalyse, they analyse engagement levels across events to scale successful formats and improve low-performing ones.

Currently, programme managers and the executive management committee use this data to guide operational decisions.

Available data

• Source: Data comes from internal systems, through a data collection process followed by Bhumi’s teams and volunteers.

• Updates: The data is regularly updated—mostly through additions rather than changes to existing records.

• Data Quality: The primary issues relate to absent or uncaptured data. Captured data is generally of decent quality, though there may be incomplete rows.

• Content:

  • For volunteering, the dataset includes details from various events—such as when and where the event happened, its duration, and volunteer participation (including hours, outputs, and roles).

  • Some data is also available for volunteer leaders, including their roles, geography, and hours of contribution.

Bhumi notes that the data is not overly complicated and does not require a formal dictionary. Most terms are self-explanatory, and clarifications will be provided when needed via Slack.

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Key Dates

• Project Kickoff: 11 July | Live Q&A | Zoom Summary | Recording

• Live volunteer showcase: 22 August 4pm India Time | Recording

Selected Volunteers

• Santhosh J

• Shreya Arya

• Elena Lebedeva

• Sujan Maharjan

Support and collaboration

• Join our Slack #project-collaboration channel to ask Bhumi questions, exchange ideas, or collaborate with fellow volunteers.

Website and Social Media

• Website: https://www.bhumi.ngo/

• Instagram: @bhumiorg

• LinkedIn: Bhumi on LinkedIn

• Twitter/X: @BhumiOrg

Type of Activity

• Data Visualisation

• Light touch data wrangling

Bhumi was selected following a partnership between Data Changemakers and 10x Impact Labs to support Indian non-profits in harnessing the power of data visualization to drive meaningful change - Email contact