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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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Speeding The Convergence of Impact and Profit

Notes From The Field: Nikon Rasumov, co-founder of Pullapproach outlines a route to data collection with lower transaction costs and,…

Trains, Tweets, And Infrastructure

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twtter, recently sat for an interview with the CBS television program 60 Minutes. What we learned…

Reflection on “Moving from Big Data to Big Wisdom”

Darin McKeever is Deputy Director, Charitable Sector, Global Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His comment here, Moving…

Open Disclosure: A Missing Link Between Private Sector And The Poorest

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: The following post is a dispatch from both the classroom and the field. Nicolas Galarza looks…

Making Data An Afterthought

Fast forward to a social sector in which the data practices we are currently imagining are implicit in both our…

Meetup For NTEN Conference Attendees: Brainstorming the MFG Challenge

For anyone attending the NTEN Conference, GlobalGiving will host a Markets for Good meetup with a focus on brainstorming ideas…

Pillars For Managing Social Sector Data

In this continuation of our series on Technology, Scott Smith offers a “user’s guide” of sorts in this technologist’s view…

How Nonprofits Can Take Advantage Of Technology and Data: A Global View

In this edition of “Notes From The Field,” Catalina Escobar, Co-Founder and Executive director of the nonprofit consultancy Makaia, describes…

The Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability

The Gates Foundation and Markets For Good have announced a new Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability for ideas that connect data to inform social action.

Note from the Curator: Tech and the Social Sector

Markets for Good introduces a new theme: technology. Specifically,”What do we need to build an upgraded information infrastructure, from the…