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And the list goes on.....

Two more organizations to add to the list: * The Microfinance Rating and Assessment Initiative by M-CRIL, MicroFinanza Rating, MicroRate, and Planet Rating * Razoo And here's the rest of the list, so far: * FasterCures Philanthropy Advisory Service (I'm an advisor to this effort) * SocialCapital Index (Managers are

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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

The medium makes the matter matter

Two follow ups from earlier posts this week: 1) Yesterday I wrote this post on the Harvard Business Review article by Bradach, Tierney, and Stone, "Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits," HBR, December 2008, pp 88 - 97. I've been deluged with emails saying that * the

Networks, metrics, levers, buzzwords

I'm nearing the end of my second to last multi-week road trip of 2008. Way too much travel... Need to go home... Can not think, let alone write, anymore... What follows are notes. * Way back in May I wrote about a paper on Working Wikily from the Packard

Measuring failure

Two topics of frequent discussion in philanthropy - metrics and innovation - just came together in an interview I heard while listening to the radio. Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace spoke with A.G. Lafley, CEO of Proctor & Gamble and author of a book on innovation, The Game-Changer. You can

Considering measurements and measurers

Who are you? How do you know? Psychologists love questions of identity and all its multiple dimensions - from attitudes to behavior. Geneticists are also ready to weigh in, from different perspectives and with different data. Demographers will chime in - disaggregating you along various dimensions and then adding you

Where does the money go?

Today's Wall Street Journal asks this question, in this article by Sally Beatty (subscription required). I sit on the advisory board of the Nonprofit Reporter, one of the organizations interviewed and mentioned in the story. Today Marketplace, NPR's daily business program, begins a week long series