April 30, 2013
Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning, Program Director of the Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (AGALI) at the Public Health Institute, advocates for a new evaluation model to maximize the impact of social sector initiatives. …
April 23, 2013
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...
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...
April 10, 2013
In February, we visited the topic, Nonprofit Data And The Arc Of History, a perspective on “how the US currently collects, digitizes, and distributes data about charities through an annual reporting return called the Form 990…” This comment came on the heels of an Aspen Institute forum where a new report...
February 27, 2013
Originally published by Impatient Optimists … Last month, the Aspen Institute hosted a forum where they released a new report entitled “Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data.” The report by researchers Beth Noveck and Daniel Goroff focuses on how the U.S. currently collects, digitizes, and distributes data about charities...
January 30, 2013
Denise Raquel Dunning, Program Director of AGALI, contends that the social sector is missing out on knowledge and expertise that is patently available. We’re not listening to the voices of people served – not on the level of a recognizable and consistent competency. And that means we are falling short...
January 2, 2013
It’s been three short months since we launched the Markets for Good campaign. As many of you know, the campaign’s goal is to host a conversation about how the social sector uses and shares information, spark new ideas about how to make data sharing and use easier, and highlight and...
October 26, 2012
According to John Hecklinger, Chief Program Officer of GlobalGiving, the powerful tools and technologies we are creating are helping us solve social problems, but they could work better if they were to work together. He argues for explicitly connecting them so that the information they generate flows more freely and becomes...
October 9, 2012
Guest post from Darin McKeever, a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, regarding a major new agreement among a few of the US’ largest foundations: The Reporting Commitment. At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we firmly believe transparency is a key ingredient in maximizing impact because...
September 11, 2012
Welcome. This web site located at www.digitalimpact.org (“Site”) is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (“Foundation” “we” or “us”) in collaboration with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Liquidnet. The purpose of the Site is to broaden the conversation about how to increase the quantity, quality, and flow...
