Portfolio Data Management System

The social sector made a big jump forward yesterday with the announcement of the Portfolio Data Management System (PDMS). This set of software tools, powered by Acumen Fund, the Aspen Institute Network of Development Entreprenuers, Skoll Foundation, SalesForce.com Foundation, Google.org and about a dozen other organizations announced they were making available the PDMS to nonprofits. [...]

Considering measurements and measurers

Who are you? How do you know? Psychologists love questions of identity and all its multiple dimensions – from attitudes to behavior. Geneticists are also ready to weigh in, from different perspectives and with different data. Demographers will chime in – disaggregating you along various dimensions and then adding you into many cohorts. Historians or [...]

Another take on metrics

In Michigan, according to this article on the Metrics of Giving, its all about jobs.