Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
July 30, 2015
I read this wonderful article “Agility Is Today’s Most Critical Leadership Competency” by Julie Winkle Giuliani, author of “Watch Them Grow or Watch Them Go.” Agility is defined in the dictionary as light and graceful or as a project management approach, but she defines agility as the ability for continuous learning and as […]
July 28, 2015
GlobalGiving’s Alison Carlman explains how the crowdfunding platform is using gamification, incentives, and behavioral economics to encourage organizations to listen, act, and learn more efficiently.
July 17, 2015
In 2015, the social sector is changing. Nonprofit organizations are realizing the many benefits of utilizing data to effectively assess the impact and value of their work. However, many of these organizations, particularly the smaller ones, can feel intimidated by the many methods, products, and sources at their disposal. What many nonprofits don’t realize […]
July 8, 2015
Using digital technologies within a distributed social framework can inspire solutions that bring us closer to reaching our Sustainable Development Goals.
July 6, 2015
At Markets for Good, we believe data can play a powerful role for nonprofits and charities – to make more informed decisions, increase efficiency, measure successes and failures and to create a greater impact for social good. London-based social media consultancy Social Misfits Media also share our views, and along with JustGiving and the UK’s Institute of Fundraising they’ve developed a new guide, […]
June 18, 2015
Your organization is working toward change in the world and believes it is making a real difference. But how do you measure such things? What kinds of technology systems can you use to track them? No organization finds these questions trivial, but this challenge is particularly difficult for those with outcomes that […]
June 17, 2015
I was lucky enough earlier this month to hear Nancy Lublin’s opening keynote at the Data On Purpose conference hosted by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The conference theme was about using data for social change and sessions were addressed the growing proliferation of data in the nonprofit sector and the sector’s increasing ability to make productive […]
May 28, 2015
Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective. The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic […]
May 26, 2015
As the director of an organization that works with foundations across the country, I get to see remarkable examples of foundations working together and learning from each other about how to be more effective. But sometimes we need to look beyond the field to get ideas of how to tackle our biggest challenges. […]
May 20, 2015
The market engine behind our nonprofit service economy is the act of funders and donors “proxy buying” a service or program on behalf of a population. Analogous to “in loco parentis,” where a school plays the role of the parent while children are in their care, in the nonprofit sector, we have “in loco […]
