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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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Data Points and Data Agents

How is technology drawing us closer to meeting needs on the groun? We count on it to connect us in…

Grand Challenges | Explorations …#MFGChallenge

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with Liquidnet for Good, is looking for groundbreaking ideas to address a…

Stimulating Demand For Constituent Feedback

Obviously, this is not a demand curve. (left) It could be seen as a “need” curve. David Bonbright takes us…

Nonprofit Data and the Arc of History

Originally published by Impatient Optimists … Last month, the Aspen Institute hosted a forum where they released a new report…

Notes From The Field: The Open Humanitarian Initiative

Gisli Olafsson, Emergency Response Director at NetHope describes a large-scale project underway that is using open data to transform and…

Interview with Storify founder, Xavier Damman

Amid the rampant “datafying” of things, we would like to keep cool heads as we witness the (welcome) proliferation of…

Divining A Vision for Markets For Good

  This paper, offered in full text for Markets For Good, was originally published by Alliance Magazine. Many thanks to…

3 Reasons Why Open Data Will Change The World: A Real-Time View

We find ourselves in the flurry of activity that is to be expected of the dawn of any movement. On…

The Reporting Commitment

Markets For Good talks with Jeannine Corey , Director of Grants Information Management of The Foundation Center for an update…

Notes From The Field: On Opportunity

The following post begins a new series: Notes From The Field.  Here, we will take a look at various initiatives…