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Our Data?? Less and less guarded in ye olde smoke-filled room… (Left, ejh) In keeping with our focus on data infrastructure, we’re staying under the hood to consider the business models that define our work: how we sustain market presence and attract the funding to do that while working with...

[Originally posted on GrandChallenges.org, we thought this is worth another look: a search for solutions that improve the feedback loop to ensure that the voices of small farmers are actually heard and that their feedback is properly incorporated into development programs.] “Smallholder farmers should be full participants in defining, implementing,...

The Markets for Good web campaign was launched last October by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP12) conference in San Francisco. A year on, we’d like to give you a recap of our progress and what we’ve learned so far. We’ll...

Information privacy is a challenge for large and small organizations alike. We’re most familiar with it as an external force requiring social-sector businesses to guard constituent privacy or protect business data from external access, just as for any type of business. Complicating that work is the weight and speed of...

In 60 seconds, tell us: “Who are you, what do you do, and how does data matter in your work?” Through the simple prompt above, we “Speed Dataed” attendees of the Social Capital Markets Conference 2013 (SOCAP13), one year after the launch of Markets for Good at SOCAP12. Why should we...

“Stop. Check capacity.” How can we talk about decision-making without a serious look at the quality of inputs, in this case, the capacity of the organization itself? Just a quick note here to highlight one example of work to move us forward in that respect in the social sector. [image:...

Say the words “exciting” and “insurance.” I think that’s the third time in history they have appeared in the same sentence. Our loss. Investors don’t want to lose money and, thus, take a full enterprise view in due diligence, enabling informed decision-making not just at the point of investment but...

4 Big Things You Need To Do Now To Prepare A Successful “Giving Day” by Beth Kanter and Bahia Ramos We’re glad to welcome back two previous contributors to Markets For Good: Beth Kanter (Doing The Math Ourselves) and Bahia Ramos (Methods & Tools For ‘Giving Days'”). Having spent the...

“We have staff whose title is Community Animation. Their job is to get to know what you are working on and to weave connections…” … Eli Malinsky is Executive Director, New York City of the Centre For Social Innovation. We interviewed Eli at the newly opened New York City location...

Let’s get straight to it: Nonprofits and foundations are in business to advance their missions. In the social sector, nonprofits’ and foundations’ missions sum up to making lives better. Even with the nascent convergence of for-profit and nonprofit entities to operate for “good,” the social sector will still be judged...