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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GCF Task Force
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) is a unique subnational collaboration between 22 states and provinces from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Spain, and the United States. The GCF seeks to advance jurisdictional programs designed to promote low emissions rural development and reduced emissions from deforestation and land use (REDD+) and link these activities with emerging greenhouse gas (GHG) compliance regimes and other pay-for-performance opportunities. William Boyd, Senior Advisor and Project Lead and Amelia Petersen, Senior Research Fellow offer insight on the project in this post for Markets For Good.→
Art Taylor
Herman “Art” Taylor is president and chief executive officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance which sets standards for soliciting organizations, evaluating them in relation to these standards, publishes the Wise Giving Guide, promotes charity accountability and provides a variety of materials on informed giving to individual, institutional and business donors.→
Wisegiving
Rebecca Thomas
Vice President, The Nonprofit Finance Fund.→
Melinda Tuan
After co-creating REDF in San Francisco, Melinda Tuan spent seven years managing the business. She is currently an independent consultant to philanthropic organizations across the country, helping mission-oriented organizations and their leaders become more effective in meeting their mission. Please see her website to learn more.→
Richard Turner
Chief Fundraiser at SolarAid
Richard Turner has been a fundraiser for 25 years. in 2001 he was awarded Fundraiser of the Year by the Institute of Fundraising. He is currently Chief Fundraiser at SolarAid - a charity which runs a social enterprise in Africa. He regularly blogs and tweets on the subject of fundraising as @ifundraiser, or you can read his blog at https://ifundraiser.wordpress.com/.→
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