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Asha Curran, one of #GivingTuesday's chief architects asks, "How best to gestate a movement like this and take it to scale, creatively, and responsibly?"

"We call this effort 'Markets For Good' but let’s face it: markets are not perfect. 'Market failures' are part of the reason why the important work of the people and organizations in the social sector is so critical to a thriving society. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t market…

  In June of this year, Markets For Good convened a two-day workshop, bringing together 70 individuals spanning the length and breath of the social sector. Hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, the workshop focused on the development of the data and infrastructure that supports the...

  A revolution in technology is happening and it’s changing everything we do; never before has so much data been collected and analysed and at the Open Knowledge Festival, we will bring together over 1,000 people from more than 60 countries to share their skills and experiences to ensure that the...

‘The idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another’ – from Cargo Cult Science, a commencement address by Richard Feynman. This is the point of departure...

To close our data visualization (dv) series, guest-curated by Greta Knutzen (GK), we are, well… kicking the tires on an earthmover. There’s a lot of content here (worth the ride!) in this round-table interview with the Office of Creative Research, a newly established design agency responsible for some of the...

"Efforts to unlock and open 'big data' are great and sorely needed in the social sector, but if we can’t make sense of that data—if we can’t connect it with other data and turn it into useful information that is presented to the right people at the right time to…

We know (intellectually) not to rely on magical solutions to drive our work. In practice, however, we sometimes fall into the trap of unwitting, magical assumptions. The reality is that underlying any amazing feat we might accomplish, you can bet on solid infrastructure, process and groundwork to account for it....

"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."

Notes From The Field: Nikon Rasumov, co-founder of Pullapproach outlines a route to data collection with lower transaction costs and, thus, a shorter route to impact for social enterprises.