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#GivingTuesday Data Collaborative

Podcast and Transcript: Lucy Bernholz, Asha Curran, and Josh Levy discuss building a governance plan and digital infrastructure for giving data worldwide.

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Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society

In this 2018 virtual roundtable, experts in tech and data ethics explore how civil society organizations can work toward better policy for predictive technologies.

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The Data Culture Project

Team [ess_grid alias=”elab”] Challenge Data has already become central to the popular narrative of the future of nonprofits. Unfortunately, many organizations are stumbling into working with data without direction, driven by peer pressure rather than a clear description of what they need to learn to have data help their work...

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The Internet of Things: Risks and Rewards of a Connected Future

Podcast and Transcript: Nonprofit tech experts discuss how the Internet of Things has sparked a new era of social impact.

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Data Policy

We are committed to transparency about data use and to protecting your right to privacy. Please read our policy before using this site. Digital Impact (digitalimpact.io) is an initiative coordinated by the Digital Civil Society Lab (“Lab,” “we,” “us,” “our”) at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford...

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Standardizing Resource Data APIs

Team [ess_grid alias=”airs”] Challenge More than 1,000 organizations across the country provide people in need with the service of information and referral to health, human, and social services. Community by community, sector by sector — and through a range of channels such as call centers, resource directories, and web apps...

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Bad Data In: Predictive Algorithmic Risk Assessment in Pretrial Detention

Project Cities and states are turning to predictive algorithms to determine who would be at lowest risk of recidivism if released from jail pre­trial. These algorithms predict using factors correlated with race, and have few guidelines in how they are implemented. We will work with those impacted by mass incarceration, technologists, researchers,...

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Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts

Project Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts Team [ess_grid alias=”datalabs”] Challenge Help public decision makers understand the value proposition for the creation of institutional infrastructure and governance to enable the use of administrative data for more data-driven governance and then understand alternatives for how to create such labs; and make the...

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Nonprofit Ecosystem Research and Visualization

Team [ess_grid alias=”drexel”] Challenge Can a data-driven and data-visualized approach to understanding the breadth, range, and scope of nonprofit organizations within a community, combined with important community and individual metrics, increase opportunities for collaboration among nonprofit organizations and enhance donor knowledge of the nonprofit ecosystem? Project Overview This project was...

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Good Data Collaborative

Project Overview To support civil society’s access to responsible data (RD) resources, the Good Data Collaborative completed a responsible data literature review, consultations with stakeholders (summarized in a consultation report), UX testing and redesign of ResponsibleData.io, and an initial assessment of the landscape of responsible data guidance for nonprofits. Team...

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