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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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Where To Next?

If, as I have argued, the sector’s approach to impact measurement has become too narrow, even stalled, how can we…

An Alternative To RCTs

  Last week, in my post ‘Should Controlled Trials Be The Standard for Impact Measurement?’ I examined the effectiveness of…

Big Data Looks For Future Entrepreneurs

  As a community, we’re fully aware that “with predictive analytics, Amazon can figure out what you’ll buy next, Netflix…

Are We There Yet?

  Members of the Markets for Good community are strong advocates for increasing the availability and use of data in…

Data For Successful Recruitment

  In a recent BBC article, Matthew Wall examines the notion that data has an ever-increasing role to play in the…

Should Controlled Trials Be The Standard for Impact Measurement?

  The Holy Grail for anyone who develops, invests in, funds and/or runs a social program is to prove that…

A New Donor Code of Conduct

  As regular readers, we expect you have seen – and hopefully signed up to – The Lake Washington Declaration,…

The Two Faces of Data

Giving more data won’t make us wiser and sacrificing more for data’s sake won’t make us safer. What can the social sector learn from the tragedy of Harvey Dent?

Why Big Data Is Such A Big Deal

  Kenneth Cukier believes that most people are “probably sick of hearing the term big data.” He notes: “it is…

Boot Camp For Data Junkies

  Today we bring you an NPR interview with Natasha Balac, Director of the Predictive Analytic Center of Excellence at…