May 21, 2013
"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."
April 23, 2013
As we explore this theme of Evaluation, perhaps what you read next will be familiar to you no matter where your nonprofit organization resides in the world. This commentary, however, focuses on gathering the raw material in Mexico, where Filantrofilia, a rating organization with information on now over 250 organizations,...
April 15, 2013
In this edition of “Notes From The Field,” David Henderson speaks on how better data can actually lead to greater impact, by examining a critical assumption behind the request for better data: that it lands in the hands of skilled users. This isn’t a point to leave at assumption. I...
March 26, 2013
Fast forward to a social sector in which the data practices we are currently imagining are implicit in both our day-to-day activities and in the strategic underpinnings of our work. Sheetal Singh (@multi_tude), Senior Director of Global Media at TechSoup Global provides a case study that looks into that future...
February 19, 2013
We find ourselves in the flurry of activity that is to be expected of the dawn of any movement. On this ground, there is an equalizing factor as the social sector, business, and government are all staring into an opportunity that demands immediate ramping of high-quality data practice. In that...
February 11, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to sit with Andrew Ackerman, Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). The conversation landed squarely on the information infrastructure in the social sector, particularly as it concerns knowledge networks. How do you build and maintain one that works for your organization? How...
October 12, 2012
Nick Deychakiwsky, Program Officer of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, raises a few questions that go to the core of the concept of an information marketplace and how we should (or shouldn’t) think about it as we organize our work in the social sector. Building an information infrastructure for social...
