Feb 062010
Open Source Infrastructure: What It Is & Why We Need It

The Tides Foundation – known especially for their work in fiscal sponsorship – launched their first blog recently with a post titled “Why Does Infrastructure Matter?” Ellen Friedman, the Tides Executive VP, writes:
“If we don’t pay attention to the infrastructure we are putting in place to support the work necessary to implement our visions, the [...]

Feb 022010
Part 5 of 6 - Improve & Contest: An Open Source Invitation

Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here.
Collaboration and team work are the engines that have made the Nonprofit Data Scorecard a reality. The energies of our small team of volunteers have begun to chip away at a few of the big questions facing the nonprofit world: How has the recession impacted NPO’s? Who are the [...]

Jan 282010
Part 4 of 6 - Build & Develop: From ManyEyes to Many Options

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The spark that drove our hunt for up-to-date nonprofit data was a desire to tell the story of that community’s ride through the economic recession. In the journalism world, the craft of storytelling is starting to meet the rapidly growing world of data flow – but the effectiveness of [...]