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April 29, 2013
What are we really asking for when we require nonprofits to produce data on performance, effectiveness and impact? While the surface logic is clear – we need to know this information – the full context and set of assumptions surrounding the request bears closer examination. Laura Quinn, founder of Idealware, breaks it down to reveal […]
April 26, 2013
In this dispatch of Markets For Good | Notes From The Field, our guest contributor, Ambassador Curtis S. Chin, approaches the information infrastructure topic from a policy perspective. Using developing, high-growth economies as a backdrop, he focuses on three levers that business, governments and the social sector need to manage well for equitable economic growth. […]
April 23, 2013
If you missed our Q&A session for the MFG Challenge, scroll through this conversation to jump-start your knowledge. There’s still time to apply: Each winner will be awarded a $100k grant. Deadline: May 7, 2013 – 11:3am PST.
As we explore this theme of Evaluation, perhaps what you read next will be familiar to you no matter where your nonprofit organization resides in the world. This commentary, however, focuses on gathering the raw material in Mexico, where Filantrofilia, a rating organization with information on now over 250 organizations, conducts its work. On this […]
Continuing highlights from last week’s Global Philanthropy Forum, two more to consider in the context of how the social sector can build a better information infrastructure, i.e. a better platform upon which we can manage data and innovate to gain a few good steps on the problems we’re trying to solve. … Mayur Patel, Vice […]
April 19, 2013
At the Global Philanthropy Forum we listened closely for the themes are guiding our content on the information infrastructure for the social sector, the critical and common thread in the work of the social sector: the data we generate, use, and share. We also asked a few questions, interviewing the participants for their insight on […]
April 17, 2013
We can nearly wear the tread off of a word during cycles of popularity or necessary use. “Impact” fits this category. Regardless of possible misuse or overuse, however, it’s worth the attempt to maintain a real definition and to use the word meaningfully. There is little option of abandoning it without playing word games. For […]
Greetings from the Global Philanthropy Forum Conference, “The Future We Make.” We’ve been here learning and representing Markets for Good among “established and emerging philanthropists and investors who seek to advance individual opportunity and to improve the quality of life through strategic giving and investing.” Could “strategic giving” be achieved were it not for evaluation […]
April 15, 2013
In this edition of “Notes From The Field,” David Henderson speaks on how better data can actually lead to greater impact, by examining a critical assumption behind the request for better data: that it lands in the hands of skilled users. This isn’t a point to leave at assumption. I wouldn’t assume that buying Usain […]
April 11, 2013
Curator’s Note: News item provided by The Hamilton Project “On April 17th, The Hamilton Project at Brookings and Results for America, an initiative of America Achieves, will co-host a forum and release two new papers on the crucial role of evidence and results in policymaking. U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and […]
