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I have just had the opportunity to catch up with Debbie Adler (Debbie Adler Consulting) at the The Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society Seminars. As one of the conversations of the day turned to nonprofits and fundraising, we decided to stop and recap a few good points in a quick interview....

Fundraising is an odd thing today – at once, a business function and now a fashionable topic anywhere you find two or more start-up or nonprofit folks talking about…anything.  As a business function, it is being redefined by new actors, methods and demands. As a fashion statement, it is infinitely...

We are living a pretty intense “data moment.”  Data collection and usage practices that were formerly dismissed as technically impossible, or simply not done, are now feasible and openly posited as much in terms of proposed benefit as in terms of personal or business risk. Try this from case study...

Bandwagons make for a smooth ride, but not normally to useful insight.  Their opposite, however, in the form of scattered voices of the “anti-bandwagon” often don’t help much either when reflex contrarians don’t offer much more than complaints. While looking for a solid counter to a few of the popular...

– “Open and machine-readable”, the president said, is “the new default for government information.”- From: A New Goldmine, The Economist, May 2013 This article notes the opening up of government data as yet another big bucket of bytes contributing to the “big bang of big data,” one that will…

The pace continues with new digitization initiatives designed to enable the free flow and easier use of social sector data…

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 ...

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...

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)...

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...