Markets For Good

Bradford K. Smith, President of the Foundation Center, talks about what philanthropy can do to gain the right kind of visibility in the conversation on big data: Philanthropy’s Data Dilemma – by way of the blog, Philantopic. He argues that philanthropy isn’t getting the most out of the signature assets  being applied in this space, […]

As noted in our introduction to this topic, You Knew It Was Coming…, we’ll spend this month with a mix of original content and curated posts of existing content from anywhere, the latter because there is a lot of good information out there already. We start with a review of a blog post by Jacob […]

But we’ll let C.S. Lewis start this conversation, not the social sector or the data scientist: “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out […]

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 Gates Foundation, sat down with […]

We could stop at this title and be bored silly as each of those words has its own familiar set of images, definitions, and stories that immediately come to mind – even when we use them together. (Maybe, by using them together, I’ve finally stripped them of meaning in the same way yet another product […]

“Markets For Good aims to foster a robust conversation about how people in the social sector can better generate, share, and use information to make better decisions and improve lives.”

Next up in our series of interview clips over the past few weeks, a couple of real-time perspectives on what’s actually happening in the sector. Let’s be honest: All this talk of “data” can set us adrift: Where do I start? Which part is hype? Is “data”itself getting in the way? I think discussions such […]

[Hat tip to: Aspen Institute Program On Philanthropy And Social Innovation (PSI) and PSI’s Nonprofit Data Project] Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Our take at Markets For Good? It was big news when the President’s FY 2014 Budget was released with a […]

We’ll continue archiving and presenting clips from our interactions with innovators across the social sector. The first is taken from a Markets For Good Interview with Ryan Ansin, founder of EPHAS – Every Person Has A Story – at the Global Philanthropy Forum. Suzanne DiBianca,  President of the Salesforce Foundation, follows with a case study glimpse […]

We’re closing in on the MAY 7 DEADLINE for the MFG Challenge, a competition to increase the interoperability of social data, featuring $100k grants to be awarded to each winner. The contest is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Partnership with Liquidnet for Good. Many of you were with us for the […]