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Markets for Good was a platform launched in 2012 to help increase social impact through good data practice. The Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS acquired Markets for Good in 2016.

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Meetup For NTEN Conference Attendees: Brainstorming the MFG Challenge

For anyone attending the NTEN Conference, GlobalGiving will host a Markets for Good meetup with a focus on brainstorming ideas for the MFG challenge: Increasing Interoperability of Data for Social Good. Here are the details: April 11, 2013 5 pm – 7 pm The News Room 990 Nicollet Mall (at 10th St) Minneapolis, MN 55402 […]

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The Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability

The Gates Foundation and Markets For Good have announced a new Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability for ideas that connect data to inform social action.

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Note from the Curator: Tech and the Social Sector

Markets for Good introduces a new theme: technology. Specifically,”What do we need to build an upgraded information infrastructure, from the perspective of technologists and information intermediaries?” Let’s try a quick thought experiment for context. What’s in a Meme? A meme is “an idea, behavior, style or usage that spreads from person to person within a […]

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Grand Challenges | Explorations …#MFGChallenge

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with Liquidnet for Good, is looking for groundbreaking ideas to address a significant, but solvable, problem: increasing the interoperability of data for social good. Each Winner to Receive $100,000 Grant  Why? Data sets are often isolated, fragmented and hard to use. Many organizations manage data with multiple […]

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Interview with Storify founder, Xavier Damman

Amid the rampant “datafying” of things, we would like to keep cool heads as we witness the (welcome) proliferation of tools and platforms and attempt to place them on a landscape of utility. This particular moment is a marked evolution as the web catches up with history to discover that effective and honest storytelling is […]

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The Reporting Commitment

Markets For Good talks with Jeannine Corey , Director of Grants Information Management of The Foundation Center for an update on the Reporting Commitment, an initiative launched by a group of the largest U.S. foundations. We read many announcements of start-ups, projects, and initiatives; but, it’s good to check in from time to time to […]

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Transformational Data, From Children

Recently I had the opportunity to sit with Andrew Ackerman, Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). The conversation landed squarely on the information infrastructure in the social sector, particularly as it concerns knowledge networks. How do you build and maintain one that works for your organization? How does it actually work? We […]

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Note from the Curator: Variations on a Theme

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been examining the theme of Beneficiary Feedback. We’ve chosen “beneficiary” for convenience, but even finding an appropriate word (consumer? constituent? recipient?) is more than semantics, giving insight into how an organization perceives the people it proposes to help. A brief tour of the sector shows encouraging efforts, but also […]

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Aspen Institute Releases Report on IRS Form 990 Data: “Information For Impact”

Markets For Good, Curator’s Note The nonprofit sector is on the front-lines, working to solve the toughest social problems. But, perhaps the first problem to solve today is an internal one: upgrading our data practices. On airplanes we are strongly advised to put our individual oxygen masks on first, before attempting to help anyone else. […]

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Note from the Curator: Reflecting on 2012

It’s been three short months since we launched the Markets for Good campaign. As many of you know, the campaign’s goal is to host a conversation about how the social sector uses and shares information, spark new ideas about how to make data sharing and use easier, and highlight and connect efforts already underway. We […]

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