Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
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.
April 23, 2013
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.
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 solve. … Mayur Patel, Vice […]
April 19, 2013
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 participants for their insight on […]
April 17, 2013
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 were it not for evaluation […]
April 11, 2013
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. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and […]
April 10, 2013
In February, we visited the topic, Nonprofit Data And The Arc Of History, a perspective on “how the US currently collects, digitizes, and distributes data about charities through an annual reporting return called the Form 990…” This comment came on the heels of an Aspen Institute forum where a new report was released, entitled “Information for […]
April 8, 2013
Enjoy our strategic story on SlideShare here. This concept of upgrading the information infrastructure of the social sector is the result of years of informal conversations now broadened and coalescing into a specific imperative to improve the way we generate, use, and share data, i.e. the “plumbing” of the sector. If, together, we can […]
April 1, 2013
Victoria Vrana, Markets For Good
“This is not just a need for donors. Leaders of nonprofits and NGOs, media, policy makers, and most importantly, beneficiaries of services need critical data and information that could increase results for everyone.”
March 29, 2013
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twtter, recently sat for an interview with the CBS television program 60 Minutes. What we learned is that Twitter owes its existence to his love of trains, specifically the dispatching function that guides them. Throughout the day, dispatchers and train operators communicate in short, descriptive blurbs. Jack’s insight was that, suddenly, […]
March 28, 2013
Darin McKeever is Deputy Director, Charitable Sector, Global Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His comment here, Moving From Big Data To Big Wisdom (just published on the blog of Skoll Foundation World Forum), throws a welcome spanner in the works with respect to the thought of a full on march into getting […]
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