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  Measure of America has developed an index made up of health, education, and income indicators that measures well-being and access to opportunity in communities across the U.S. It goes beyond money metrics like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to look at reality for everyday people. This American Human Development (HD)...

  The Harvard Business Review blog recently featured an interesting piece from Matt Stempeck around an alternative method of philanthropy for corporates; data sharing. Stempeck highlights the power of sharing data, and how this is adds just as much – if not more – value that traditional corporate philanthropy.  ...

Healthcare in America is a mess in many respects. The unsustainable rise in costs. The substandard care for so many Americans. The continuing “Animal House” food fight over Obamacare. But one of the very best places to look for insights on how to nurture a data-informed performance culture is, you...

The Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) is a not-for-profit dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. Today, they discuss the developing investment and philanthropic climate, with more and more venture capitalists moving into the social impact world, bringing more ideas from the private sector. One fundamental concept, is unsurprisingly data. But how...

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...

Sunand Menon, previous Markets For Good guest author of one our most highly visited posts, has offered a recent thought piece (Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches) that deserves a deeper examination. I’d like to use it to raise more questions (not give answers) about the pathways to...

What if we were to turn the tables and have the consumer managing the privacy of other people and organizations? There’s a new game in the emerging “serious gaming” genre out that does just that. DataDealer has received extensive feedback from young people, teachers, media educators and the general public....

We welcome noted tech journalist and observer Miya Knights to the Markets For Good conversation. We’re glad to have this brief opportunity to turn the journalism tables and interview Miya on the subject of data privacy. Let’s think of the social sector in the context of the broader business environment...

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...

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. Recently, Victoria Vrana, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda...