November 2, 2012
At Markets For Good, we explore a wide range of themes on the use and sharing of data, but not for the sake of discussion itself: Instead, we want to discover what’s going on and how to connect, align, and accelerate what’s working. Think of this as upgrading the information...
October 22, 2012
GlobalGiving CEO Mari Kuraishi speaks her view on the explicit and implicit structures that would define a new information infrastructure for the social sector.
October 10, 2012
In Part I of this two-part look at financial analysis for nonprofits, Rebecca Thomas gave insight into the “why” of financial statement literacy. Continuing here, she uses Financial SCAN as an example to share what can be achieved when financial analysis becomes a regularly used tool among others in the...
October 2, 2012
What are the skills and mindsets that nonprofits need to embrace data for social change? Guest blogger Beth Kanter talks about data-literacy as an in-house necessity for nonprofits. In a resource constrained world, many nonprofits view measurement and data as “yet anotherthing on our to-do list” or as a lost...
Social strategist and author Jacob Harold shares his vision of a solid information infrastructure and how it could work in the social sector.
It’s worth taking the time to learn to “speak” with numbers, writes Rebecca Thomas, noted financial planning and management consultant expert for nonprofits and foundations. Part I of II. Understanding and unearthing insights about a nonprofit organization’s financial dynamics, strengths and weaknesses can be skills-intensive and time-consuming. But, avoiding it...
August 12, 2012
Markets for Good is an initiative to discover how the social sector can better use and share information to improve outcomes and change lives.
