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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Steve MacLaughlin
Director, Analytics at Blackbaud
Steve MacLaughlin is a Director of Analytics at Blackbaud, a leading provider of technology and services to the nonprofit sector. Steve has spent 20+ years driving innovation with a broad range of companies, government institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Steve serves on the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Board of Directors and supports its focus on both the growth and professionalism of the nonprofit technology field as well as building knowledge and information sharing capacity throughout the sector. He is a frequent blogger, published author of the book Data Driven Nonprofits, and co-editor of the book Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools & Trade Secrets. Steve earned both his undergraduate degree and a Master of Science degree in Interactive Media from Indiana University.→
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Jody Madala
Jody Madala is founder of Madala Health, a healtchare consultancy that builds bridges between large U.S. academic medical centers and partners around the world, specializing in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a former Institutional Investor ranked hospital analyst with an 18-year career in the U.S. financial markets. Jody also shares her expertise in healthcare finance and policy analysis, training hospital managers and Board members everywhere, including Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Zimbabwe.→
Peter Manzo
Peter Manzo is President & CEO of United Ways of California. In this role Pete leads United Ways of California’s efforts to improve the health, financial stability and educational opportunities of Californians by enhancing and coordinating the efforts of California United Way organizations.→
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Dvorit Mausner
Dvorit Mausner focuses on behavior change for the social sector in her role as Change Strategist with Hope Consulting. Previously she served as a frontline fundraiser for The Penn Fund of the University of Pennsylvania in various roles ranging from calling center supervisor to associate director of annual giving.→
Diego May
Diego May is CEO and co-founder of Junar.com, a cloud-based open data platform that enables businesses, governments, NGOs, and academia to quickly, easily and affordably make their data accessible to all to spur innovation, provide greater transparency, encourage collaboration and citizen engagement, and free up staff resources.→
Sean Martin McDonald
Chief Executive Officer at Frontline SMS
Sean Martin McDonald is the CEO of FrontlineSMS and a founding member of the Frontline Legal, Capture the Ocean, and Feedback Labs projects. Frontline uses the convenience and reach of messaging to improve the reach, efficiency, and value of digital engagement in more than 140 countries. He's also an advisor and affiliate with the Clinton Global Initiative, Harvard's Berkman Center, Digital Democracy, ECPAT USA, TechChange and UNDP.→
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Chad McEvoy
BRIDGE Project Manager, Global Giving
Experienced tech project management for nonprofits and international development organisations. Chad works as BRIDGE Project Manager at GlobalGiving.→
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Darin McKeever
Darin McKeever is a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation leading the foundation’s Charitable Sector work.→
Andrew Means
Head of the Beyond.Uptake Foundation and Co-Founder of The Impact Lab
Andrew Means is Head of the Beyond.Uptake Foundation and Co-Founder of The Impact Lab. He has previously held leadership positions at The University of Chicago’s Center for Data Science & Public Policy, Groupon, and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. He holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harris School at the University of Chicago. Andrew is a member of the Board of Directors at Ingenuity Inc.→
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Sunand Menon
Sunand Menon is President of New Media Insight and has spent the last decade incubating and scaling information ventures in a variety of industries such as Financial Services, Media, and Healthcare. He was the founder and Managing Director of Thomson Reuters Indices, and was responsible for the roll-out of Thomson Reuters Business Classification. Previously, he also served as Global Head of Business Development at Lipper where he spearheaded its growth across the Data, Information and Knowledge sectors.→
Talia Milgrom-Elcott
Talia Milgrom-Elcott is a Program Officer in Urban Education and the Senior Manager of STEM Teacher Initiatives at Carnegie Corporation of New York. She oversees all Corporation funding in the area of human capital with a focus on how to get and keep great teachers and principals in high-need schools and how to support them to be successful. She is also co-founder and lead of 100Kin10, a networked approach to strategically addressing the nation's shortage of STEM teachers and improving STEM learning for all students→
Holly Mitchell
Campaign Manager #GivingTuesday UK at Charities Aid Foundation
Holly Mitchell is the Campaign Manager for #GivingTuesday UK, a new national day of giving lead by the Charities Aid Foundation. She has worked in the charity sector for the past four years in both policy and public affairs roles. Prior to this she worked in the public sector in both central and local government.→
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Mario Morino
Chairman at Venture Philanthropy Partners
Mario Morino is Chairman of the Morino Institute, Co-Founder and Founding Chair of Venture Philanthropy Partners, and primary author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (2011).→
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Thomas Moroz
Senior Consultant and Advisor, Techné Verde
Tom Moroz is a Senior Advisor for Techné Verde, a project of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. He is currently working on projects with global organizations and networks to improve the infrastructure for better collaboration and knowledge sharing across organizations and sectors. Previously, he was Global Head of Knowledge Management for the Open Society Foundations where he developed and implemented the knowledge management vision and strategy for their global network of nearly 40 organizations.→
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Lara Mossler
Lara Mossler, of BureauBlank, specializes in digital strategy that solves problems for infrastructure, education, energy and government sectors. She is an author on several Psychology research reports presented at professional conferences.→
Tara Murphy Forde
Vice President for Impact and Strategic Initiatives
Tara joined Global Partnerships (GP) in January 2009. As Vice President of Impact and Strategic Initiatives she leads GP’s efforts to define, measure, and strengthen the impact of its investments. In this capacity she oversees the qualitative and quantitative methods, tools, and processes used to identify high impact opportunities and cultivate learnings from the existing portfolio. Prior to her role on the Impact and Research team, Tara spent five years on GP’s Social Investment Team where she was responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of Fund performance. Her approach to impact investing is informed by academic, professional, and entrepreneurial experience addressing the issues of poverty, gender, and conflict. As a Fulbright Scholar, Tara researched the gender-differentiated effects of the armed conflict in Colombia and was part of a start-up tackling the socio-economic reintegration of displaced families. In addition to her time in Colombia, Tara has lived and studied in Cuba and Northern Ireland. Tara holds a B.A. in political science from Vassar College and a certificate in executive leadership from the Albers School of Business at Seattle University.→
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Neal Myrick
Director of Corporate Social Responsibility
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