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November 7, 2014
In a recent NPR article, Shankar Vedantam asks “why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all?” This is a question that regularly crosses our minds here at Markets For Good, and no doubt yours as well. Given the recent lack in Ebola funding, which Andrew […]
October 31, 2014
Yesterday we published an in-depth look into the fundraising data behind the fight against Ebola from Andrew Grabois of the Foundation Centre. Today, we follow up on Grabois’ piece with a Quartz article, authored by Gwynn Guilford, detailing an innovative new initiative to fight Ebola. In her recent article, Guildford interviews Madhav Marathe, […]
October 29, 2014
Here at Markets For Good we like to keep all our readers abreast of the work of our friends and contributors. As such, today we are very excited to draw your attention to the Do Good Data conference, to which tickets recently went on sale. Built by regular contributor Andrew Means of Data […]
October 22, 2014
Peter Singer uses his TED talk to walk the viewer through a range of thought experiments and examples to help you balance emotion and practicality in giving — and make the biggest impact with whatever you can share. “Effective altruism combines the heart and the head” Singer believes we are seeing a trend […]
October 20, 2014
Several months ago we published an article highlighting a website called ‘DIY Toolkit’ – a digital ‘do it yourself’ online resource for nonprofits. The reason for us bringing this (back) to your attention, is they have updated their website with new videos and blogs to better support nonprofits. The toolkit has been “designed […]
October 16, 2014
In a recent NCRP article, Larry McGill, Vice President of Research at The Foundation Center talks about the role that data and collaboration play in driving strategic philanthropy. McGill believes that “no organization, no matter how powerful, can single-handedly bring about true social impact.” Communities are so complex, harboring an entrenched network of […]
October 8, 2014
As a community, we’re fully aware that “with predictive analytics, Amazon can figure out what you’ll buy next, Netflix knows what you’ll watch next and Target can guess if you’re pregnant.” However, in a recent NPR article, Priska Neely brings us up to speed with the novel concept of predicting who will become entrepreneurs. […]
October 6, 2014
In a recent BBC article, Matthew Wall examines the notion that data has an ever-increasing role to play in the job hunt. Those of you who recruit and manage staff will no doubt be aware how many people leave after 18 months, and the difficulty of finding the right individual to join your team. […]
October 1, 2014
As regular readers, we expect you have seen – and hopefully signed up to – The Lake Washington Declaration, a bold new set of principles for our social sector. In a similar vein to this, we are highlighting a recent post from The Stanford Social Innovation Review, by Ken Banks, that proposes a code […]
September 25, 2014
Kenneth Cukier believes that most people are “probably sick of hearing the term big data.” He notes: “it is true there is a lot of hype around the tool, and that is very unfortunate because big data is an extremely important tool by which human knowledge is going to advance.” In his recent TED […]
