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July 14, 2016
The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report, a collaborative research project by Nonprofit Tech for Good and the Public Interest Registry, explores how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their donors and fellow supporters. NGOs and the social sector at large have increasingly harnessed online technology and services to advance their […]
July 8, 2016
Updated: Follow this link to check out highlights from our Giving Day Tech virtual roundtable and download the podcast! You’re invited! On Thursday, July 21 at 10am PDT, Markets for Good will host the next virtual roundtable in our Give Day Lessons summer series: Giving Day Technology: Making Good on the Big Day and Beyond. Representatives from five online fundraising platforms […]
June 9, 2016
Listen to Andrew Means, Asha Curran, Priscilla Enriquez, and Beth Kanter discuss the lessons learned from the Give Local America Day tech failure. The tech failure that caused massive disruption of the national Give Local America Day fundraising campaign in May 2016 raised many questions for social sector leaders and practitioners: What went wrong? How did […]
June 8, 2016
Updated: Follow this link to check out highlights from our Giving Day Fail virtual roundtable and download the podcast! Join us at 10 am PDT on Thursday, June 9th for the MFG virtual roundtable,”Giving Day Fail: Lessons for Digital Infrastructure,” when moderator Andrew Means and panelists Asha Curran, Priscilla Enriquez, and Beth Kanter will dissect the Give Local America Day […]
June 1, 2016
Updated: Follow this link to check out highlights from our Giving Day Fail virtual roundtable and download the podcast! Join us! On Thursday, June 9th at 10am PDT, Markets for Good is hosting Giving Day Fail: Lessons for Digital Infrastructure, a live virtual roundtable on the lessons learned from the Kimbia Giving Day tech failure and next steps for ensuring successful […]
May 26, 2016
A new UNOCHA concept brief outlines a framework for data responsibility as practice and culture among humanitarian organizations.
May 19, 2016
In an open letter to foundations, 22 institutional leaders called for enhanced investment in nonprofit infrastructure – the “organizations devoted to supporting the health of the nonprofit sector.” Likening the value of their work in the social sector to the role that roads, bridges, schools, and other essential infrastructure play in undergirding our society and […]
May 11, 2016
Transparency – it’s a hot button issue in the ongoing discussion of data use in the social good sector, among other fields. But what exactly does it mean to foundations and grantees, and how is it tied to effectiveness in philanthropy? The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) explored these and other questions in a recently […]
May 6, 2016
Marking a significant change in its security protocols, Google announced that its Analytics service now secures all communications between client websites, end users, and Google servers. Formerly, Google followed its clients’ individual preferences in choosing whether or not to secure their web traffic via the standard HTTPS encryption protocol. Now, the market leader […]
