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Three Things About Three Words: Evaluation, Impact, Scale

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...

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Markets For Good | Interviews

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...

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News: White House Issues Executive Order, Announces “Landmark Steps To Liberate Open Data”

[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...

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Markets For Good | Interviews

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...

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FAQ Resources for MFG Challenge: Grand Challenges | Explorations, Data Interoperability

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...

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Recap: MFG Challenge | Twitter Q&A

If you missed our Q&A session for the MFG Challenge, scroll through this conversation to jump-start your knowledge. There’s still time to apply: Each winner will be awarded a $100k grant. Deadline: May 7, 2013 – 11:3am PST.

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Markets For Good | Interviews

Continuing highlights from last week’s Global Philanthropy Forum, two more to consider in the context of how the social sector can build a better information infrastructure, i.e. a better platform upon which we can manage data and innovate to gain a few good steps on the problems we’re trying to...

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Markets For Good Interviews @ The Global Philanthropy Forum

At the Global Philanthropy Forum we listened closely for the themes are guiding our content on the information infrastructure for the social sector, the critical and common thread in the work of the social sector: the data we generate, use, and share. We also asked a few questions, interviewing the...

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Evaluation: Putting On Our Big Boy Glasses

Greetings from the Global Philanthropy Forum Conference, “The Future We Make.” We’ve been here learning and representing Markets for Good among “established and emerging philanthropists and investors who seek to advance individual opportunity and to improve the quality of life through strategic giving and investing.” Could “strategic giving” be achieved...

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Forum: “Investing In What Works: The Importance of Evidence-Based Policymaking”

Curator’s Note: News item provided by The Hamilton Project “On April 17th, The Hamilton Project at Brookings and Results for America, an initiative of America Achieves, will co-host a forum and release two new papers on the crucial role of evidence and results in policymaking.  U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), U.S....

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