Helping Cities Ride a Wave of Data to Improve Lives
Oct 2015
In cities across America, mayors are eager to make use of ever-growing streams of data to enhance the effectiveness…
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Human Needs Index: A Real-Time Data Project on Poverty
Oct 2015
Kari Thierer’s Nonprofit Quarterly article ‘Human Needs Index: Unusual Partnership Backs a Real-Time Data Project on Poverty‘ discusses how the Salvation…
Can Big Data Help Government Do Better? This Foundation Thinks So
Oct 2015
In this news roundup, we take a look at Paul Karon’s article ‘Can Big Data Help Government Do Better?…
Foundations and Transparency in the World of Open Data
Oct 2015
Reports of yet another fraudulent celebrity foundation have hit the news recently,this time for former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle’s Jared…
Feedback as Democracy in Social Change Practice
Oct 2015
A huge shift is happening in the social sector. Dennis Whittle traces it all the way back to the birth of…
Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy
Oct 2015
What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? What…
Open Data Institute Summit 2015
Oct 2015
We are very excited to announce that we are a media partner for the Open Data Institute‘s (ODI) Summit this…
How Tech is Making African Transit more Uber-like
Oct 2015
In How Tech is Making African Transit more Uber-like, David Z. Morris examines how nonprofits and developers are compiling data…
Breaking Down Barriers to Expand Data for Social Good
Sep 2015
Interest in topics like “data science,” “analytics,” and “big data” is growing in the nonprofit and education sectors. Attendance…
A New ‘Development as Usual’: How Data Can Save the SDGs
Sep 2015
When it comes to ending poverty, the way forward cannot be development as usual. The stakes are too high…