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  An analysis of figures compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service shows that the global response to OCHA’s billion dollar appeal for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been an outlier. For example, looking at just funding (not including uncommitted pledges) from private individuals...

  Here’s a truth that’s rarely spoken: if a key funder asks a nonprofit for data it doesn’t really have, it’s standard practice for nonprofits to simply invent plausible data to fill the gaps.   On its face, this seems outrageous. As a sector, how can we ever hope to...

"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…

  I first put a fitbit – a digital pedometer that tracks steps, calories burned, food intake, and other personal analytics data – on my wrist back in October. After some results from routine tests during my annual physical, my doctor informed me that my cholesterol was high. “Start exercising more...

  Earleir this week in Forbes, John Trammell CEO of Khorus, a business management software company, explains how the need for effective use of data is paramount to ensuring an organisation is aligned to current and future strategies set out by CEO’s. In a survey carried out by Khorus, Trammell...

  Quite possibly, some NGO has discovered a great way to, say, prevent re-offending or improve literacy, but nobody else knows about it so their genius innovation doesn’t spread. Surely it’s unacceptable that people may miss out simply because research can’t be found and/or isn’t clear. The problem seems to...

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...

Riders for Health is a social enterprise, which works in seven countries in Africa to manage and maintain vehicles and fleets that carry health care to remote rural communities. They are transforming health care for 14 million people. Matthew Hann, Communications Manager at Riders for Heath gives an in-depth description of...

Tris Lumley will be presenting NPC’s research on the state of the UK nonprofit sector and the need for a paradigm shift incorporating shared measurement, data labs, a systems perspective on scaling, and a new mindset for leadership at a Markets for Good: Live event hosted by Liquidnet on 21st...

Beth Schechter, Education and Outreach, Stamen Design, writes with Eric Rodenbeck, CEO & Creative Director and offers a fundamental insight to inform data strategy: think about the future – how you will maintain your visualization outputs and capabilities (both human and technological) on a shifting landscape. This post is a...