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  Within the last six months, three of the world’s largest foundations—the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Ford Foundation—have all announced that they will require open licensing of all grant-funded products and content. In doing so they build on the leadership of early...

There’s a gap in our conversation on climate change: connecting it to all areas of our quality of life and focusing on ways in which climate change mitigation can also work to alleviate poverty. William Boyd, Senior Advisor and Project Lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF)...

Sunand Menon, previous Markets For Good guest author of one our most highly visited posts, has offered a recent thought piece (Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches) that deserves a deeper examination. I’d like to use it to raise more questions (not give answers) about the pathways to...

Much of the conversation on open data centers on its biggest source: government. It stands to reason, then, that many social sector business models that leverage open data will involve some sort of direct or indirect interaction with government. We thought we would find go directly to the source to...

The following mini-interview is a follow-up to this article: 5 Transformational Forces That Should Be Driving The Social Sector (But Aren’t). The web is full of insightful statements. It’s more difficult to find the discussions that follow them as they most often take place offline and in our heads. We...

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...

We find ourselves in the flurry of activity that is to be expected of the dawn of any movement. On this ground, there is an equalizing factor as the social sector, business, and government are all staring into an opportunity that demands immediate ramping of high-quality data practice. In that...

Rachel Rank of UK-based 360Giving introduces a new kind of "data expedition" for professionals looking to connect with their work and each other.

Helen Turvey of Shuttleworth Foundation sheds light on the disconnect between funders and the communities they serve.

Listed below are the applicants to the Digital Impact Grants 2018 cycle who agreed to share details about their proposed projects with the Digital Impact community and public at large. Digital Impact will share an interactive data visualization of these projects. You can also view applicants from 2016 and 2017. 21...