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A collection of 6 posts

Sense Making in the New Data-Scape

An edited version of this post is available on the SSIR Opinion Blog. The version below is unedited. Some things are so obvious they are hard to see. For example, why do we make change organizations go looking for funders instead of having funders go look for change organizations? Now,

Foundations - get the widget

Last week I pointed out that the entire ecosystem of information on nonprofits in the USA is changing. Just as the 1990s was a decade of innovation in philanthropic financial products, the 00s have been, so far, a decade of innovation around information. You can read the full post either

Social Capital index

I just got updated news that xigi.net and GoodCapital, the two social capital organizations that gave us SoCap08 have moved the Social Capital Index to its own site with its own team. You can find it here. As the site managers point out: "Another constant theme [of SoCap08]

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Information markets in philanthropy

Tim O'Reilly notes the following great examples of innovators around "transparency in government" and recommends they consider joining the incoming Presidential administration. Sunlight FoundationEveryblockpublic.resource.orgmysociety.org Is there a parallel list of philanthropic accountability, nonprofit innovators? Months ago I posted these "maps" to

Platforms for action

I founded the company I run to help people use data and information in making their philanthropic decisions. I'm a big fan of good information. This interest is why I actually pay attention to technology, intellectual property, and graphic design. I think efforts like policymap and the Pakistan

What does transparency look like?

What do nonprofits really think about foundations? There are several sources of information about this - occasional reports from NCNA, Independent Sector, or GEO, research presented in NVSQ or the Nonprofit Quarterly, some of NCRP's work, and the slowly emerging industry standard developing out of the Center for