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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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Markets For Good | Interviews

Next up in our series of interview clips over the past few weeks, a couple of real-time perspectives on what’s…

News: White House Issues Executive Order, Announces “Landmark Steps To Liberate Open Data”

[Hat tip to: Aspen Institute Program On Philanthropy And Social Innovation (PSI) and PSI’s Nonprofit Data Project] Today, President Obama…

If We Build It, Will They Come?

Yes. That’s a corn field… but, you could call it a dugout for our purposes today. Daniel Stid, of Bridgespan…

Notes From The Field: Disability Rights Fund on “Evaluating Advocacy to Assess Grantmaking Goals”

How do you evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy and policy work? How do you go beyond counting number of grants…

Markets For Good | Interviews

We’ll continue archiving and presenting clips from our interactions with innovators across the social sector. The first is taken from…

FAQ Resources for MFG Challenge: Grand Challenges | Explorations, Data Interoperability

We’re closing in on the MAY 7 DEADLINE for the MFG Challenge, a competition to increase the interoperability of social…

Evaluation IS Intervention

 Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning, Program Director of the Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (AGALI) at the Public Health Institute,…

In Search of Better Data about Nonprofits’ Programs

What are we really asking for when we require nonprofits to produce data on performance, effectiveness and impact? While the…

Notes From The Field: Ambassador Curtis S. Chin on “Transparency, Credibility, and Commitment: Precursors to Progress”

In this dispatch of Markets For Good | Notes From The Field, our guest contributor, Ambassador Curtis S. Chin, approaches…

Recap: MFG Challenge | Twitter Q&A

If you missed our Q&A session for the MFG Challenge, scroll through this conversation to jump-start your knowledge. There’s still…