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September 29, 2015
Interest in topics like “data science,” “analytics,” and “big data” is growing in the nonprofit and education sectors. Attendance at training programs, salons, and conferences like NTEN’s annual conference, Do Good Data or Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Data on Purpose is booming. And it’s no surprise – we are in the midst of […]
September 28, 2015
When it comes to ending poverty, the way forward cannot be development as usual. The stakes are too high for the same interventions by the same actors. How would one propose to end poverty without including the employers of the world and the drivers of our global economy? How do we determine the way […]
September 24, 2015
The big idea behind the Markets for Good community is that the effective use of program results data across sectors would improve programs, make it easier to direct money to the most effective programs, and improve the lives of the vast number of people served by nonprofits. This sounds great in theory, but […]
September 22, 2015
A hyperconnected experience less governed by materialism could exploit “shared states” rather than “shared objects”—a more sustainable paradigm that shifts discursive desire and practice further toward transparency and accountability.
September 18, 2015
In ‘Data is the Magic Ingredient That Can Bring Good Nutrition to Global Fruition‘, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation CEO Michael Anderson talks about how nutrition should be high on the agenda as global leaders meet in New York later this month to discuss the sustainable development goals (SDGs). He argues that the subject […]
September 17, 2015
In our latest post for our Community Insights series, we talk to Richard Turner, Chief Fundraiser at SolarAid about his career as a fundraiser and the biggest opportunities in digital fundraising. Tell us a bit about yourself and your career so far. I’ve been a fundraiser for 25 years, this year! Not […]
September 15, 2015
For every dollar an individual chooses to donate to a social or public purpose, she has to make one of these choices: donate, invest, political support, shop, crowdfund. This the universe of choices we face for all the private resources we want to put to public benefit.
September 10, 2015
One way The Water Project, and other organisations in the water sector, aim to ensure reliable access to water over time is through ongoing monitoring. In order to realise their commitments and ambitions, significant investments have been made in technologies like mWater, a mobile-monitoring-system accessible from a smart phone, and other tools to make […]
September 8, 2015
At Markets for Good, we try to encourage our readers to better make use of data and information – using data to become more transparent and accountable, improve impact and better communicate your goals with your donors and supporters. But nonprofits can’t simply collect data – they need to use data to drive their […]
September 4, 2015
In 2013, Facebook rolled out a ‘donate’ button for partnered nonprofits. Twenty months after their pilot, the social network has rolled out the feature to all nonprofits and charities, according to Megan O’Neil’s piece for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, ‘Facebook’s New Donate Button Helps Charities Build Donor Lists‘. In the original pilot, the […]
