Measuring Social Impact
Structural Revolution and the Social Sector
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
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Philanthropy
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
Philanthropy
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
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Civil Society
Going With the “Idea Flow”
An emerging "data-driven" science of human behavior promises to help us understand and solve social problems.
Technology & Design
Silicon Valley Takes on Gun Violence
A group of Silicon Valley investors is challenging entrepreneurs to create high-tech solutions to reducing gun violence.
Measuring Social Impact
Making Sense of Data and Information in the Social Sector
A new eBook captures discussion and debate around how to strengthen the social sector “information infrastructure.”
Philanthropy
Fostering For-Profit Civic Innovation
City, state, and federal government agencies in the United States could benefit from the creative energy of new companies dedicated to the unique challenges of the public sector.
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Technology & Design
SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
SMART CITIES explores how the combination of city growth and new technology can bring opportunities for the future.
Nonprofit Management
Evaluation’s Next Generation
A look at characteristics and approaches that represent the evolution of traditional evaluation.
Nonprofit Management
Stories as Data
Are you ignoring your richest intel? How organizations can yield a wealth of valuable data through story-based research.