December 6, 2019
What Does It Take to Be a Data Champion?
Rachel Rank of UK-based 360Giving introduces a new kind of “data expedition” for professionals looking to connect with their work and each other.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
February 20, 2017
Building Better Data Policies with Digital Impact
“For the first time, we had to develop organizational guidelines to distinguish between public and private data,” writes Kevin Clark—a reflection on the challenge of reworking his organization’s grants process and building new data policies to reflect its mission.
December 13, 2016
Data Conversation with Rachel Rank
Rachel Rank, Chief Executive of 360Giving, talks about her organization’s open data initiative for grantmaking.
September 9, 2016
Funding need, not want
Perpetual Limited is one of Australia’s oldest trustee companies and largest managers of philanthropic funds. The story of how Perpetual refocused its philanthropy business to build non-profit capacity (particularly digital capacity), as opposed to project funding, is nearly 130 years in the making. In this article we look at how that change occurred and the […]
May 23, 2016
Mark Surman on the NetGain Partnership
Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman discusses the NetGain Partnership and its work to make the Internet open, secure, and accessible for all.
August 7, 2015
How Come This Foundation’s Grantees Love its Reporting Process So Much?
Most charities hate the reporting which funders make them do. Notionally a learning process, it’s often just compliance, box-ticking and a dead-weight cost. But not so apparently for the Inter-American Foundation, an independent US government agency which grant-funds citizen-led community development across Latin America and the Caribbean. IAF seems to be a positive outlier: […]