March 29, 2019
BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities)
BRIDGE is an identifier system for the global social sector, enabling streamlined information sharing to improve transparency and effectiveness.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
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June 30, 2016
BRIDGE Project: Progress Report
I’m glad to be prompted into writing, as I think we’ve been remiss about keeping people posted about the progress we have been able to make on BRIDGE, as well as any evolution of our thinking about what BRIDGE could be. I’m hoping that in this and future posts we...
Building a Better BRIDGE: Open Infrastructure for the Social Sector
I’m surprised to be writing this piece. I’m surprised because a public-interest technology project led by Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup — and supported by luminary funders like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation — doesn’t seem like it should be a source of...
February 4, 2016
BRIDGE: New Lookup Tool Identifies Global Social Sector Entities
One of the first projects to emerge from the Markets for Good community, GuideStar, TechSoup, GlobalGiving, and Foundation Center have been busily building a BRIDGE to Somewhere. We are proud to announce to the Markets for Good community that the project has reached an important milestone. The BRIDGE is now...
November 3, 2014
BRIDGE Project: Progress Report
The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. BRIDGE is a system that assigns non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other...
November 13, 2013
BRIDGE Project: Progress to Date
Technical development of the first Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) release is currently about a half-way to completion. If you have been following the project you will know that BRIDGE aims to revolutionize data interoperability in the global social sector by uniquely identifying all the world’s NGOs in...
June 3, 2013
BRIDGE to Somewhere
The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. Recently, Victoria Vrana, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda...
September 15, 2020
Closing the Fairness Gap in Machine Learning
With racial unrest shedding new light on AI’s fairness problem, an open source tool developed with the help of Digital Impact aims for a more holistic fix.
June 3, 2020
Legitimizing True Safety
The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.
June 2, 2020
Digital Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
If digital infrastructure is the backbone of civil society and democratization, then why aren't we doing more to protect it?