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Does Markets for Good count as a social movement?  Surely it cannot compare to the great social movements of the 20th century in terms of moral resonance or aspiration towards greater human dignity.  But it is a collective, decadal effort to build a better world; perhaps someday history will judge...

Debra Anderson, Instructor at the New School, Co-Founder at DataCoLab, Founder & CEO at CultureShock offers a brief examination of the current landscape and highlighting the benefit and value of DV for Social Good including: What is Data Visualization (DV)? Which organizations have used it effectively – and to what...

We found an excellent cross-post opportunity via The Bridgespan Group and SSIR on our topic of Measuring Social Return. Christina Triantaphyllis and Matthew Forti make the case for why donors and their grantees should work together to advance practices that measure and evaluate outcomes. “Global NGOs are at the forefront...

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...

The Markets for Good web campaign was launched last October by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP12) conference in San Francisco. A year on, we’d like to give you a recap of our progress and what we’ve learned so far. We’ll...

Conversations on nonprofit information usually branch out quickly to talk on impact. But what about process? Performance measurement along the route? Less common is the talk of what the steps are that lead up to impact on a real-time and day-to-day basis. Not paying attention to daily practice in this...

Dvorit Mausner, of Hope Consulting references her extensive work in development fundraising to dissect its components and propose a different method for the gritty task of managing prospect information via individual and shared databases. …

We are living a pretty intense “data moment.”  Data collection and usage practices that were formerly dismissed as technically impossible, or simply not done, are now feasible and openly posited as much in terms of proposed benefit as in terms of personal or business risk. Try this from case study...

Yes. That’s a corn field… but, you could call it a dugout for our purposes today. Daniel Stid, of Bridgespan Group, takes this Field of Dreams cue to ask a few tough questions to you, and to us at Markets For Good. We’re always excited to dig in to real...

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...