We face a choice between two models for donating data: one governed by corporations and one determined by grassroots civic action. The winner will decide how much control we have over our digital information.
For nearly three decades, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has led the fight to protect people’s digital rights, incubating allied organizations and offering free security tools to nonprofits. Can it continue to uphold its mission? From the Summer 2019 issue.
Nonprofits must make careful choices about their digital infrastructure to ensure that it aligns with their mission.
We should care about who is able to control and distribute data, but information is more than just a commodity.
A new, data-driven mode of confronting humanitarian disaster requires an appropriate policy framework.
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Highlights from the fifth-annual industry forecast, Blueprint 2014: Philanthropy and the Social Economy.
Internet technology can help us to connect, globally and otherwise, but only if we structure it well.
In the world that’s now emerging, pre-modern practices that emphasize personal relationships are returning to prominence.
How private giving can contribute to the needs of American democracy.
Networks, equal access, and read-write products are no longer just core design elements of the Internet; we are making them real.
Researchers from Pew and NetLab examine how the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking are radically changing our lives.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
Donors who use cell phones to make donations do more than give, they talk about it.
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
As a society, we should not encourage the replacement of public responsibilities by private philanthropy.
We need to bring foundations—and their vast repositories of information on who is doing what in the social economy—out into the open.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United vs. The FEC is a harbinger of great change for the social sector.
The 10 phrases I have chosen to show the steady rise in market-based solutions for social problem solving, technology’s infiltration of all things fund raising, and a shift in attention from local to global.
Rather than focus in (anymore than the buzzwords list already does) on the top 10 of the year gone by, let’s think about the factors that will shape philanthropy for the decade ahead.
The most important issue for the social sector in the United States in 2011 will be the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Insight into the malleability of data, and the need for stories and filters, are as relevant to those in philanthropy as they are to car salesmen, reporters, film makers, and fiction writers.
Cloud-based tools encourage greater collaboration, allowing us to re-imagine problems and develop new solutions to tackle social problems.
With advancements in mobile technology, new doors are being open for nonprofits to take advantage of.
With new changes to corporate and tax law, can nonprofits continue to be successful among new competitors?
What role does transparency play in philanthropy?
The opportunity has come to reframe, rethink, reset, and rebuild some of the things we take most for granted.
The author asks whether field building need always be done in the same way.
