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"I believe that more informed decision making—with easy access to the right information at the right time—will help all those in the social sector generate more impact."

Context If your organization is using external contractors or volunteers to analyze or visualize your data, build an app for your program, or conduct an evaluation of your programs that will involve the collection of digital data, you want to extend your values onto their work. You will also want...

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...

We are pleased to welcome Peter Grundy, the “father of infographics” to the conversation, with groundbreaking experience that began in the 70’s and continues with a sharp look into the future of communicating information. He opens with a quote: “The humble basic communication of information has never had the glamour...

Markets for Good Selected Readings: Making Sense of Data and Information in the Social Sector 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,...

This month’s theme will focus on Measuring Social Returns. To frame the discussion, we’ll take a critical look at both the actual measures of social return and how we measure; that is, we’ll consider the underlying tools, systems, and architectures for results measurement.  Now, let’s heat the pool with a...

Steve Wright, Vice President, Poverty Tools and Insights at Grameen Foundation joins the discussion we raised yesterday on beneficiary insight. There, we addressed an article published in Alliance Magazine by David Bonbright, expressing the concern that Markets For Good may go wrong, arguing that “beneficiaries are not part of the...

"Markets For Good aims to foster a robust conversation about how people in the social sector can better generate, share, and use information to make better decisions and improve lives."

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...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: The following post is a dispatch from both the classroom and the field. Nicolas Galarza looks at an example of social entrepreneurship in Colombia and finds links between open data and the diffusion of innovation. The result is a route to market development that better reaches...