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Responsibilities for the use of a licensed data set by groups of volunteers.

This introduction to evaluation through an equity lens provides nonprofit professionals with information about data responsibility and the data lifecycle.

Two architects of Ethos, a new suite of tools from GlobalGiving, explain how empathy can help to address the paradox of platform neutrality.

Project Avoiding Discrimination in Automated Decision Making and Machine Learning Team [ess_grid alias=”maxplanck”] Danilo Brajovic Niki Kilbertus Bernhard Schölkopf Adrian Weller Project Overview As automatic systems increasingly make decisions affecting humans, we must understand how our notions of fairness can be incorporated in a principled way. We implement various recent...

Team [ess_grid alias=”dataorchard”] Data Orchard is a research organization providing skills in research, statistics and data with shared passions around making the world a better place socially, economically and environmentally. Data Orchard received a 2017 Digital Impact Grant. Learn more about Data Orchard’s work here. Project Overview Data Orchard will...

The humanitarian community should assess wider implications, risks, and unintended negative consequences brought about by this and similar partnerships.

Team [ess_grid alias=”elab”] Challenge Data has already become central to the popular narrative of the future of nonprofits. Unfortunately, many organizations are stumbling into working with data without direction, driven by peer pressure rather than a clear description of what they need to learn to have data help their work...

Privacy Patterns is a simple, user-friendly tool designed to help non-profit organizations identify and prioritize actionable steps toward enhancing data privacy for their beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and donors. How it works: Enter a limited amount of information about your organization (none of this data is retained) Explore actionable steps that...

Project Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts Team [ess_grid alias=”datalabs”] Challenge Help public decision makers understand the value proposition for the creation of institutional infrastructure and governance to enable the use of administrative data for more data-driven governance and then understand alternatives for how to create such labs; and make the...

View the full lists of submitted projects from previous cycles and meet our grantees here. Digital Impact is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). We work to improve the digital infrastructure for civil society and help social sector practitioners and policymakers...