Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home
Jun 2015
A little over a year ago, we set out to do something ambitious. We set out to build environmental sensors…
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instaGiv Launches New Data Capture Tool For Charities
Jun 2015
Donations received through text are increasingly popular as a way to fundraise effectively, especially as society as a whole…
A Data-Led, Common Sense Approach to Online Fundraising
May 2015
Stanford computer scientists Jure Leskovec and Tim Althoff have analysed 14-years worth of online donations to help organisations systematise…
Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech
May 2015
Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making…
Growing Impact By Investing in Networks
May 2015
Foundations are increasingly investing time, effort, and money into building networks in order to better achieve their goals and…
A Proven Playbook for Increased Effectiveness
May 2015
As the director of an organization that works with foundations across the country, I get to see remarkable examples…
Are Proxy Buyers Stunting the Growth of the Nonprofit Economy?
May 2015
The market engine behind our nonprofit service economy is the act of funders and donors “proxy buying” a service…
Data as Art
May 2015
Art is as much about the technologies available to artists as it is the sociopolitical context in which it…
Giving to Disaster Relief and Recovery
May 2015
When disaster strikes, people want to help. Unfortunately, it’s not always clear which nonprofits can respond most effectively, or…
Facebook for Good
May 2015
Recently, Facebook expanded its Facebook for Business offering to include a dedicated platform for Non-Profits. Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s VP…