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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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→
Lori Bartczak
Lori Bartczak is the director of programs at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, a community for grantmakers committed to building stronger and more effective nonprofits.→
Daniela Gilbert
Daniela Gilbert is Deputy Director of The California Partnership for Safe Communities. The organization works with cities to achieve sustainable community-wide reductions in violence. Daniela formerly conducted supporting research for the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice on violence reduction and post-incarceration employment. She has also worked for the Children’s Aid Society’s Next Generation Teen Center in the South Bronx.→
Sarah Stachowiak
Sarah Stachowiak is CEO of ORS Impact. ORS Impact combines expertise in strategy with measurement and evaluation to deliver and promote strategic learning, accountability and decision-making among clients in the philanthropic, non-profit and public sectors.→
Andrew Foote
Andrew Foote is an analyst at Measuring Success, a group that helps nonprofits do data-driven decision-making to improve their outcomes.→
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Mary Kopczynski Winkler
Mary Kopczynski Winkler is an expert in performance management in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Since joining the Institute in 1995, her research has focused on strategic planning and assistance in the development, implementation and use of performance management systems for a variety of nonprofit, government agencies and stakeholders.→
Ravi Kurani
Ravi Kurani is co-founder of ImpactSpace.org, with a background in sustainable business and supply chain management. Formerly, Ravi launched a due diligence and investment campaign for the BoP communities in India while working with First Light Ventures Fund and Village Capital - organizations working to democratize entrepreneurship through peer support networks.→
The Bridgespan Group
The Bridgespan Group is a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists. We collaborate with social sector leaders to help scale impact, build leadership, advance philanthropic effectiveness, and accelerate learning.→
Julia Coffman
Julia Coffman founded the Center for Evaluation Innovation. She has more than 20 years of experience as an evaluator, and now specializes in the evaluation of advocacy, public policy, and systems change efforts.→
Alberto Andreu Pinillos
Alberto Andreu Pinillos is Global Corporate Reputation & Responsibility Managing Director at Telefónica. He is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics & Business Administration at Navarra University. Additionally, he holds a seat in the Spanish CSR Council and member of the Stakeholders Council of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Formerly, he was associate professor at IE Business School for more than 20 years→
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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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Melissa Bradley
Melissa Bradley is Founder and Managing Director of New Capitalist™. The firm's mission is to leverage human, financial and social capital to create economically profitable and sustainable individuals, businesses and communities. In this role she has facilitated over $20MM in venture capital transactions for seed stage companies, generated an average of 20 percent return on behalf of investors, and created proprietary investment vehicles instrumental in capital sourcing for minority-owned firms.→
Christian Buckley
Christian Buckley is the Chief Evangelist for Metalogix and a three-time recipient of the prestigious Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, 2012-14, an award given to leaders in the Microsoft community who advance the adoption and user proficiency of SharePoint. In his community leadership role, Buckley has become one of the most visible SharePoint MVPs in the industry, speaking at and keynoting events worldwide. A prolific writer, he publishes over 250 articles per year focusing on IT business decision-makers and helping organizations better understand the power of SharePoint and social collaboration.→
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.→
Oktay Dogramaci
Oktay Dogramaci is the Head of the Global Cause-Related Solutions team and Director of Product Management at PayPal, where he is responsible for nonprofit and donation related product features around the world. He was a co-founder and CTO of MissionFish, eBay Inc.’s nonprofit partner powering cause-marketing and donation programs built into eBay properties since 2003, and during that tenure helped raise a quarter billion dollars for charities.→
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.→
Trista Harris
Trista is president of MCF, a vibrant community of grantmakers who award almost $1 billion annually. Prior to joining MCF in August 2013, she was executive director of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice in Minneapolis, and she previously served as program officer at The Saint Paul Foundation and Minnesota Community Foundation (now Minnesota Philanthropy Partners).→
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.→
Greta Knutzen
Greta Knutzen is an award winning social issue documentary film and television producer working with filmmakers and changemakers to create powerful stories and campaigns which inform, engage and inspire positive social impact. She has produced content for A&E, History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery, and others including the Emmy-winning Sex Slaves for PBS Frontline/Channel 4 UK and Overseas Press Club winning Impact of Terror for CNN/CBC. At The New School for Public Engagement, New York, Greta designed and taught the first undergraduate course to tackle the impact of the data revolution on New Media and Entertainment.→
Lauren-Glenn Davitian
Lauren-Glenn Davitian is Executive Director of CCTV Center for Media & Democracy based in Burlington, Vermont. In her quest to help social change organizations to be more effective, she started Common Good Vermont, which aims to build a “culture of accountability”, within Vermont’s social sector, through the effective use of data driven results. Contact: davitian@cctv.org→