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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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#GivingTuesday: UK

  In May 2014 the UK officially joined the global #GivingTuesday family. It had been months in the making with…

#GivingTuesday: The Origins

Asha Curran, one of #GivingTuesday’s chief architects asks, “How best to gestate a movement like this and take it to scale, creatively, and responsibly?”

BRIDGE Project: Progress Report

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in…

Combatting Ebola with Crowdsourcing

  Yesterday we published an in-depth look into the fundraising data behind the fight against Ebola from Andrew Grabois of…

Trends in Ebola Relief Funding

  An analysis of figures compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service shows…

Do Good Data

  Here at Markets For Good we like to keep all our readers abreast of the work of our friends…

The Why And How Of Effective Altruism

  Peter Singer uses his TED talk to walk the viewer through a range of thought experiments and examples to…

Forcing Nonprofits To Lie About Data

  Here’s a truth that’s rarely spoken: if a key funder asks a nonprofit for data it doesn’t really have,…

DIY Innovation

  Several months ago we published an article highlighting a website called ‘DIY Toolkit’ – a digital ‘do it yourself’…

Of Data, Impact and Buckyballs in Philanthropy

  In a recent NCRP article, Larry McGill, Vice President of Research at The Foundation Center talks about the role…