Digital Impact fosters an online community of social sector practitioners, policymakers, allied organizations and initiatives built around the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources for social good. From key influencers to on-the-ground program staff, we’re building a community to exchange ideas and foster new connections and collaborations.
Leadership Council
- Victoria Vrana, Senior Program Officer, Charitable Sector Support, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Brian Walsh, Head of Impact, Liquidnet
- Mari Kuraishi, Co-founder and President, GlobalGiving
- Jacob Harold, CEO, GuideStar
- Mario Lugay, Entrepreneur in Residence, GuideStar
- Andrew Means, beyond.uptake
Grantees
- Alliance of Information and Referral Systems – Standardizing Resource Data APIs
- Drexel University – Nonprofit Ecosystem Research and Visualization
- Engagement Lab at Emerson College, MIT Center for Civic Media, and TNB Labs – NonProfit.Databasic.io: A Data Literacy Toolkit for Nonprofit Organizations
- The Governance Lab – Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts
- Media Mobilizing Project – Bad Data In: Communities Build Best Practice Database and Toolkit on Predictive Algorithmic Risk Assessment in Pretrial Detention
- Center for Democracy & Technology, SIMLab, The Engine Room, and Future of Privacy Forum – Good Data Collaborative
- African Minds – Open Data Intermediaries and Economic Ownership Rights
- Ariadne – European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights – Research and decision-making framework for philanthropic organizations sharing grants data for human rights and social change projects
- Benetech – Gamified Digital Security Training
- CIVICUS – Data for Action: Bringing Responsible and Secure Data Practices to Community Surveys
- Data Orchard – Data Evolution +
- Max Planck institute for Intelligent Systems – Avoiding Discrimination in Automated Decision Making and Machine Learning
- Pro Bono Net – Legal Empowerment Data Literacy and Governance Initiative
Become A Contributor
If you are interested in contributing a written piece to Digital Impact about digital data use and management for better decision making in the social sector, please complete the application form. We will respond to selected contributors within one week. Thank you for your interest in joining the Digital Impact community!
Contributor Directory
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Sabrina Lamb
Sabrina Lamb is the Founding CEO of World Of Money Youth Financial Education Institute (WorldOfMoney.org), a leading provider of financial education for youth in the New York City tri-state area.→
Brian Lange
Data Scientist
Brian Lange is a Data Scientist at Datascope Analytics, where he leads design process exercises and designs analyses, web interfaces and visualizations. He has a background in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. Brian has contributed to projects for IssueLab, P&G, Thomson Reuters, Motorola and other well known companies and his work has been featured on FlowingData. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Engineers for a Sustainable World. While he's not nerding out about typography and machine learning techniques, he enjoys science and comedy podcasts, brewing beer, and listening to weird music.→
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Audrée Lapierre
Audrée Lapierre is Creative Director of FFunction, a Montreal-based information design studio with a portfolio of clients including UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UN Women, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic, Edelman and HP. Audree's work has been featured in magazines in France, The Netherlands, Mexico, China, and Spain, and she frequently speaks at international user experience and design conferences about data visualization and UI.→
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Lori Larson
Lori Larson is senior director of GuideStar DonorEdge and is responsible for GuideStar’s market and product strategy for DonorEdge, including the growth of and customer relations of the DonorEdge Learning Community.→
Patrick W. Lawler
Patrick W. Lawler has served as chief executive officer of Youth Villages since the organization’s beginning in 1986. Under his leadership, Youth Villages has grown from two small residential facilities serving 40 youth in Memphis to a national leader in the child welfare community. The organization now serves over 20,000 families every year and has established over 60 locations across 11 states and the District of Columbia.→
Michael Lenczner
Michael Lenczner is the founder of Ajah (www.ajah.ca), a company that offers online fundraising solutions for the Canadian nonprofit sector. He also leads Powered by Data (www.poweredbydata.org), an internationally recognized nonprofit initiative which is hosted on the Tides Canada Shared Platform. Powered by Data works with non-profits, funders, and governments to help them better use, share, and learn from data. Michael has worked in not-for-profit community ICT since the late 90s in areas ranging from international development to community wireless networking and open data.→
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Judy Levine
Judy Levine, VP of Marketing & Engagement, leads Salesforce.com Foundation’s innovative programs to encourage community collaboration in pursuit of social impact. She oversees communications and employee engagement programs for the Foundation’s 1/1/1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, which has delivered valuable resources to the nonprofit community: 16,000+ organizations using donated and discounted licenses, over 400,000 hours of employee volunteer work and more than $40 million in grants.→
Kristen Lewis
Co-Founder & Co-Direcor, Measure of America
Alongside Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Measure of America. Together they are co-authors of two volumes of The Measure of America (Columbia University Press, 2008 and NYU Press, 2010) as well as state- and county-level well-being reports for California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to Measure of America, Sarah worked for the United Nations for over two decades, with a focus on economic empowerment, democratic governance, and gender equality. Kristen was senior policy advisor to the water and sanitation task force of the UN Millennium Project, led by Jeffery Sachs, and was co-author of the task force report, Health, Dignity and Development: What will it take? (Earthscan, 2005). Both contribute regularly to media outlets, with articles published in The Nation, Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others, and their research has been cited by The New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, Washington Post, NPR, Slate, and the Freakonomics blog.→
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Mauricio Lim Miller
Mauricio Lim Miller is Founder, President and CEO of The Family Independence Initiative, a national center for innovating and testing approaches to economic and social mobility that strengthen social networks, respond to initiative, and respect low-income families’ ability to lead their own lives.→
Emily S. Lin
Director of Community Analytics and Learning, nFocus Solutions
Emily S. Lin is Director of Community Analytics and Learning at nFocus Solutions, a leading provider of performance management and outcomes measurement software to the social sector. She works to leverage the company’s content expertise, technical solutions, and intellectual resources to support individual and organizational learning that creates positive social change.→
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Tris Lumley
Director Of Development, NPC
Tris Lumley is Director of Development for NPC, leading development of new strategies, partnerships and initiatives to help transform the social sector. Working with partners both in the UK and internationally, Tris focuses on both the demand and supply sides of innovation around social impact.→
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Charles Lwanga-Ntale
Charles Lwanga-Ntale is Director, Development Initiatives (DI) Africa Hub. The DI Africa Hub, based in Nairobi, provides a regional perspective to Development Initiatives’ work globally on eradicating poverty. The Africa Hub team produces high quality analysis and policy briefings and engages at a high level to enable and support evidence-based policymaking which recognises the needs of people living in chronic poverty in the East Africa region.→