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10 Reads for Your 2021 List

We made a list of notable books (and a few articles) from 2020 that will inform and inspire you and your organization this year.

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How Funders Can Support a Strong Data Technology Ecosystem

  The big idea behind the Markets for Good community is that the effective use of program results data across…

Innovating UCD to Solve for Social Good

A hyperconnected experience less governed by materialism could exploit “shared states” rather than “shared objects”—a more sustainable paradigm that shifts discursive desire and practice further toward transparency and accountability.

Data Can Bring Good Nutrition to Global Fruition

  In ‘Data is the Magic Ingredient That Can Bring Good Nutrition to Global Fruition‘,  Children’s Investment Fund Foundation CEO…

Community Insights: Richard Turner

  In our latest post for our Community Insights series, we talk to Richard Turner, Chief Fundraiser at SolarAid about his…

An Index We Really Need

For every dollar an individual chooses to donate to a social or public purpose, she has to make one of these choices: donate, invest, political support, shop, crowdfund. This the universe of choices we face for all the private resources we want to put to public benefit.

Open Data Can Ensure That Clean, Safe Water Flows to All

  One way The Water Project, and other organisations in the water sector, aim to ensure reliable access to water…

How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Maximise Community Impact

  At Markets for Good, we try to encourage our readers to better make use of data and information –…

Facebook’s Donate Button Helps Build Donor Lists

  In 2013, Facebook rolled out a ‘donate’ button for partnered nonprofits. Twenty months after their pilot, the social network…

New Playbook Resource: How To Engage Alumni

  I am a huge fan of Playbooks in the nonprofit sector as a capacity building tool.  A playbook is…

A $47 Billion Opportunity

  Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of talking with scores of people about how and why…