This past Thursday, the Do Good Data conference in Chicago featured a session on HomeKeeper. The conference was produced by Data Analysts for Social Good and focused on how governments, foundations and nonprofits can work to use data better and showcased creative ways organizations are using data to make a bigger impact. Rick
Rick Jacobus, our HomeKeeper advisor and consultant, will be sharing the HomeKeeper story as part of the Social Good Tech Week activities. Here’s the intro to his presentation: HomeKeeper: Finding the Value Proposition of Social Performance Data Everyone seems to agree that we need better data on the difference that nonprofit organizations are making in
What works to improve low-income communities? The book, What Counts: Harnessing Data for America’s Communities, a new volume of essays published jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Urban Institute, argues that to answer this question we need to enhance the ways that we collect, use, and share data across institutions