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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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But… Do Donors Want More Data on Nonprofits?

Greg Ulrich, Director, Advisory Services for Hope Consulting, offers a different perspective on people who donate to nonprofits and supports…

Note from the Curator: The First 30 Days

As Markets for Good curator Eric J. Henderson writes, “I look forward to writing these notes periodically to orient the conversation and to keep our focus on ways to convert that conversation into action.”

What Is the Real-Time Supply of Human Services?

 At Markets For Good, we explore a wide range of themes on the use and sharing of data, but not…

Upgrading the Infrastructure for Social Change

Markets for Good has shared a draft of a “vision paper” that signals how and why we think the sector needs to upgrade its information infrastructure.

Which Data? And Who Will Pay for It?

Performance assessment is an acknowledged necessity for nonprofits to operate effectively and attract capital. Phil Buchanan discusses the role of…

Making Technology a Sustainable Route to Good

According to John Hecklinger, Chief Program Officer of GlobalGiving, the powerful tools and technologies we are creating are helping us…

Children’s Parties and the Demise of the Soviet Union

GlobalGiving CEO Mari Kuraishi speaks her view on the explicit and implicit structures that would define a new information infrastructure for the social sector.

Filling the Nonprofit Information Vacuum

Cinthia Schuman Ottinger, Deputy Director for Philanthropy Programs at the Aspen Institute’s  Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation, discusses the…

Examining the Market Approach

Nick Deychakiwsky, Program Officer of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, raises a few questions that go to the core of…

The Bear And The Ladle, Part II

If, in part I, we were urged to adjust our lens for viewing social problems, Katya Smyth continues the disruption…