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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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The Ultimate Accountability In Humanitarian Aid

Accountability is not just a buzzword. It is the summary focus on what we have actually done to change lives…

Fixing The Feedback Loop

There’s visible progress in the social sector with respect to how organizations listen to and incorporate feedback from the people…

Note from the Curator: Reflecting on 2012

It’s been three short months since we launched the Markets for Good campaign. As many of you know, the campaign’s…

Challenges in Design for Beneficiary Feedback

“Listening to the customer” is often taken as a businesses assumption. But, solid program design is what brings that assumption…

Markets For Good Featured On FastCoExist

Markets For Good is driven by the “doing” of data, in other words, understanding what is happening now and and,…

Markets For Good Feature In Alliance Magazine: “It’s All About Action”

Markets For Good was founded as an open and collaborative approach to understand how the social sector can better use…

Data: More Than Numbers (Or the Sum of Its Parts)

Reliable and accessible data in the social sector is hard to come by. But, changing the way we generate, use,…

From Raw Data to Informed Decisions: What We Can Learn From the Financial Sector

The complexity of the “data” question is evident to the point of new cliché. Regardless of whether it is cliché…

MicroEdge Partners with Foundation Center on Glasspockets Transparency Initiative

Markets For Good seeks to connect, align, and accelerate the work already in progress toward better use and sharing of…

Using Community-Level Data to Drive Efforts for Collective Impact

I will leave the foreword to this post as best stated by Jeff Edmonson, most recent recipient of the American…