January 16, 2015
Catapultian is an organisation that believes real solutions can only be achieved through innovation, entrepreneurship, and the development of mission-based businesses. Late last year they launched Catapultian Resource Hub, a tool to help nonprofits become more financially self-sustaining. Catapultian was founded and is operated on a simple principle: the pervasive nonprofit model of […]
January 14, 2015
We’ve been thinking a lot about nonprofit results data at Idealware. As part of a project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we’ve conducted more than 30 interviews, a survey, and a huge amount of research to understand both how organizations think about results data—whether that’s outcomes, outputs, evaluation data, program management data, […]
January 12, 2015
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is conducting its seventh annual nationwide survey examining the current state of the nonprofit sector, and here at Markets For Good, we hope you can add your voice and opinion. We’re sharing the survey because it collects data on the challenges facing the nonprofit sector. Not only this, but […]
January 9, 2015
To dramatically expand opportunity and improve the lives of young people, their families and communities, government policy and funding decisions must be informed by the best possible data and evidence about impact. In short, government at all levels must be committed to “investing in what works.” To make this case, in 2013, Results for […]
January 7, 2015
3.5 million Baby Boomers across America are turning 65 this year. Countless retailers provide them and other older Americans discounts that some want and need and some do not. Our new organization, Boomerang Giving, is devising approaches that would enable discounts to be voluntarily redirected (Boomeranged!) to nonprofits at point of sale. This growing […]
December 22, 2014
This past year, long-term readers will have seen us update the website to the highly visual layout you see before you today, while expanding our range of articles. We have broadened our selection process for contributors, introduced new themes, topics, and columns, resulting in more organisations and individuals featured on Markets For Good than […]
December 18, 2014
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the Social Innovation Summit, a twice-annual event that represents a global convening of thought leaders in technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions, I was lucky enough […]
December 16, 2014
Measure of America has developed an index made up of health, education, and income indicators that measures well-being and access to opportunity in communities across the U.S. It goes beyond money metrics like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to look at reality for everyday people. This American Human Development (HD) Index, presented along a simple […]
December 15, 2014
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of posting on this very website my hopes for the first edition of #GivingTuesday UK, and now I’m pleased to announce that the results are in. I can now say, with certainty, that the first #GivingTuesday in the UK has been a big success. But don’t just take my […]
December 11, 2014
Washington Nonprofits (WN) is the state association for the 58,000+ charitable organizations in Washington State. As a new organization (3 years this fall), we’ve sometimes struggled with how to serve the incredible diversity that is our sector. This article retraces our journey over the past year to learn how to use data so that […]
