Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
May 25, 2014
People are the core component of this discussion on information infrastructure. It’s easy to let the data conversation tend to topics of technology, collaboration and sector buzzwords. We need those; but, in parallel, we have to ask about the human capacity to carry out these big ideas. That said, we could argue that public schools […]
May 24, 2014
Chronicle of Philanthropy’s most recent article within its ‘Measuring Up’ section begins with a statement we know all too well: “One of the greatest challenges facing nonprofits is proving how effective they are.” From varied reports, irrelevant data, or not understanding what the data means, it’s a big challenge. To solve the problem, this article […]
May 21, 2014
The astute amongst you may have noticed we at Markets For Good have started trialling SumAll.com, (amongst many other tools) to help us better measure our social media data – specifically on Twitter. What you probably didn’t know, is that there is also a SumAll.org. In the following post, we highlight an article from Forbes, […]
May 20, 2014
Markets For Good Strategic Story, March 2013 This is the “what” and “why” of Markets For Good. The “how” is why we’re here. This concept of upgrading the information infrastructure of the social sector is the result of years of informal conversations now broadened and coalescing into a specific imperative to improve the way we […]
Click here to view the pdf in your browser. We’d like to announce a new eBook, highlighting our first 15 months of conversation. This retrospective collection of selected readings from our site includes an introduction by Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in which he highlights the “continuing wave of efforts that will […]
Collaboration is key to helping drive the campaign of Markets For Good forward, and as such, we are grateful to the support of our partners, highlighted below.
The US Digital Accountability and Transparency Act is a bold bid to transform government spending information from disconnected documents into open data.
May 19, 2014
Creating social change is hard. And in an increasingly complex, interconnected world, the demand for tangible proof of social change and impact is only growing. The good news is our collective capacity for social change has also grown stronger. Around the world there are millions of organizations, billions of people, and trillions of dollars […]
May 15, 2014
Introduction The Cleveland Foundation, established in 1914, is the world’s first community foundation. That’s not just a factoid, but a cue to think about time and the speed of change. As place-based organizations, community foundations now operate at the core of some of the fastest moving global forces, with unprecedented urbanization topping the list. How […]
May 13, 2014
Looking across the digital landscape, no vertical represents a larger opportunity for innovation and improvement than the civic and social sector verticals. While people around the world use their computers and mobile devices to hail a taxi, deposit money at their banks, book travel and restaurant reservations and much, much more, our experiences with civic […]
