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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Denise Raquel Dunning
Denise Raquel Dunning is the Program Director of the Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (AGALI) at the Public Health Institute. AGALI improves adolescent girls’ health, education, and livelihoods by strengthening advocacy efforts and leadership capacity in Latin America and Africa.→
Elizabeth Boris
Elizabeth T. Boris is the founding director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Before joining the Institute in 1996, she was the director of the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector Research Fund and was vice president for Research at the Council on Foundations.→
Elizabeth Clay Roy
Elizabeth Clay Roy is the Deputy Director of Opportunity Nation. She is also the co-author of Shaping Vibrant Cities, a guidebook on effective community planning and political engagement for neighborhood organizations. It is based on community organizing work with Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy in Bangalore, India.→
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht has been the President & CEO of Living Cities since July, 2007. Since that time, the organization has adopted a broad, integrative agenda that harnesses the collective knowledge of its 22 member foundations and financial institutions to benefit low income people and the cities where they live.→
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Buzz Schmidt
Buzz Schmidt is a visiting scholar at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He is the founder of GuideStar and GuideStar International, the chair of the FB Heron Foundation and Nonprofit Quarterly, and a member of the boards of TechSoup Global and the Institute for Philanthropy.→
David Bonbright
David Bonbright is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone Accountability, an organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social purpose organizations by developing better ways of planning, measuring and reporting social change. Over the past three decades, as a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development.→
Daniel Ben Horin
Mr. Ben-Horin created TechSoup Global (as "CompuMentor") in 1987 by tapping volunteer resources on the WELL, one of the first online communities. Over the past two decades, he guided the TechSoup Global evolution from a small, local nonprofit to a globally respected entity with more than 200 employees and a budget of US$30 million.→
Scott Smith
Scott Smith is Director of Research & Data Management at The Center on Communities and Education at Southern Methodist University.
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Sheetal Singh (@multi_tude) is Senior Director of Global Media at TechSoup Global. In this position, she oversees the content and community activities of the TechSoup and NetSquared programs and is responsible for the media strategy for the TechSoup Global Network. →
Nicolas Galarza
Nicolás Galarza is a Masters candidate 2013 on Urban Planning at NYU Wagner School of Public Service . He has served as advisor to the High Presidential Commissioner for Social Action of the Republic of Colombia, on innovation and the use of technology to benefit the poor. Currently Nicolás works on an initiative to help fast-growing cities in Latin America to implement plans of Urban Expansion at the Urbanization Project. →
Victoria Vrana
Victoria Vrana is a Senior Program Officer on the Charitable Sector Support team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She joined the Gates Foundation in November 2011. Previously, she served as the the vice president, communications and assessment at Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), responsible for the organization's overall internal and external communications and assessment of VPP and its portfolio's performance.→
Nikon Rasumov
Nikon Rasumov,PhD, is cofounder and CEO of Pullapproach as well as a Director at Global Incubator. His research in computational neuroscience and 6 years in the data mining industry form the foundation for these new technologies which enable analysis and scaling of social enterprises.→
David Henderson
David Henderson has worked in a range of positions in the social sector, providing direct services to low income and unhoused adults and families, operating a non-profit organization, and consulting with various social sector organizations. For eight years, David ran a social sector technology and data consultancy called Idealistics Inc. David regularly writes about the sector on his blog Full Contact Philanthropy.→
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Brenna Marea Powell
Brenna Marea Powell is the Associate Director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, an interdisciplinary research center at Stanford University dedicated to the study of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. She is also Principal and Chairman at the IPRE Group, a consulting firm that conducts rigorous impact evaluation and policy analysis for organizations working in the fields of development, governance, and peacebuilding. →
Anne Hand
Anne Hand is currently the International Resources Executive at Filantrofilia, the Mexican social rating organization. She is responsible for research and outreach to international peer and funder organizations, as well as proposal and grant writing, and institutional communications with these organizations. Ms. Hand's background includes experience with academic research, project design and implementation, as well as outreach and fundraising expertise in the social sector.→
Curtis S. Chin
Curtis S. Chin is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Senior Fellow & Executive-in-Residence at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). He also has worked for the international public affairs firm Burson-Marsteller, a part of the WPP family of companies. He is a board member of international humanitarian organization Community & Family Services International (CFSI) and World Education Services, and a managing director, RiverPeak Group, LLC.→
Laura Quinn
Director of Partnerships and Knowledge, Idealware
Laura Quinn is the founder, Director of Partnerships and Knowledge, and former executive director of Idealware (www.idealware.org), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides impartial research and resources to help other nonprofits make smart decisions about software. She’s been working in the sector for more than 15 years, and is a frequent speaker and writer on technology topics.→
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Yumi Sera
Yumi Sera is the Operations Director for the Disability Rights Fund and managed a recent evaluation of the Fund. The Disability Rights Fund makes grants to disabled persons organizations in developing countries to support the advancement of rights as described in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.→