This link, to the “6 Stages Of Data Maturity” by The Nonprofit Times, presents 6 stages of progress related to data gathering and utilizing the data to make tactical decisions in a nonprofit. A maturity model addresses how organizations can collect and manage their data strategically; transforming this data into useful information to improve programs. The model allows nonprofits to identify their current data maturity stage and decide where its needs to go and what it should do to make progress. For example, a non-profit may feel they are at Stage 3: Get Community Feedback. They have already completed stage 1 and 2; collecting the appropriate data and understanding how to organize it. In stage 3 the organization must then gather feedback from a specified population and then combine the responses with the collected data from the previous stages to understand how to adjust programs for better outcomes.