LabStorms

Collaborative brainstorm sessions designed to help an organization wrestle with a challenge related to feedback loops, with the goal of providing actionable suggestions. Read recaps about recent LabStorms here.
LabStorms are attended by Members andinvited guests.
Upcoming LabStorms
March 8
9:00 am |
DocSCALE (ITVS)Facilitators: Eric Martin and Kim Sevcik |
March 22
9:00 am
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What Went Wrong?Facilitators: Peter DiCampo and Joe Wheeler |
Feedback Labs members are invited to propose and lead LabStorms. For more information, please contact Sarah Hennessy at meg@feedbacklabs.org.
Read More About Recent LabStorms!
Learn about the collaboration and outcomes of recent LabStorms by reading their recaps here.
October 20, 2017
The Siegel Family Endowment (SFE) has a relationship-driven approach to…
August 18, 2017
Homelessness is a complex problem. In New York City alone…
July 21, 2017
With hundreds of thousands of effective nonprofits doing good work
July 14, 2017
In June 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a…
July 7, 2017
200 million people in the United States – which includes…
June 23, 2017
In public discussions and representations of the refugee crisis there…
June 7, 2017
Feedback mechanisms at airport security checkpoints, or the entrance of…
June 2, 2017
Data is powerful. We use data to answer questions, understand…
By meg
May 12, 2017
April 14, 2017
At FBL LabStorms, we often focus on building and strengthening…
April 7, 2017
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is the world’s largest sexual…
March 31, 2017
The World Bank’s goal to end extreme poverty and boost…
March 24, 2017
Fundación Carvajal has been serving the most vulnerable families in…
March 17, 2017
On February 28th, Feedback Labs debuted our first DataStorm! DataStorms,…
March 10, 2017
GlobalGiving, the first and largest global crowdfunding site, has been…
February 6, 2017
“Imagine a ladder with steps from 0 to 10, with…
January 20, 2017
At Feedback Labs, we have started investigating the qualities of…
December 29, 2016
At Feedback Labs we talk a lot about closing the…
December 7, 2016
Earlier this year, Feedback Labs hosted Unpack Impact for the…
August 19, 2016
Development Gateway brought the latest phase of their work with…
July 18, 2016
The private sector benefits dramatically by participating in closed feedback…
July 8, 2016
By focusing on closing the loop, DustDuino generated valuable lessons…
June 22, 2016
By identifying the organizations we want to – and realistically…
June 10, 2016
Is this information enough to make a norm shift happen?…
March 1, 2016
Ashoka presents an early version of an new mobile application
January 19, 2016
GlobalGiving presents insights and plans for 2016
By Renee Ho
December 7, 2015
A visit from the Department of Better Technology
By Renee Ho
November 24, 2015
The best stories are the unexpected ones
By Renee Ho
November 9, 2015
What did we learn from the experience? How do we…
October 6, 2015
What Happens to the Individual in a Community-Driven Development Project?
July 17, 2015
Louis Dorval from Voto Mobile talks to Feedback Labs about…
June 29, 2015
You need "proof" of your problem (i.e. data) to show…
June 19, 2015
A thoughtful opinion is more important than automatic one. How…
June 15, 2015
At last week’s LabStorm, Feedback Labs hosted Damien de Walque,…
Feedback Labs has held LabStorms with the following organizations:
Ground Truth Initiative
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LabStorm
- Experiment design: Open Schools Mapping and Integrating education data sets in Kibera (April, 2015)
- Open Schools Kenya (November, 2017)
Keystone Accountability
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LabStorm
- Can website data help measure our impact? Recap (June, 2016)
- Increasing organizational interoperability via the Feedback Commons (May, 2015)
- Designing slick and easy feedback portals that you actually want to use (2014)
DataStorms
- DataStorm Debut: Picking Good Partners Recap (February, 2017)
- Self-emergent standards: Or our adventures in shared/borrowed/wild data (July, 2017)
Root Value
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LabStorm
- Increasing traceability in supply chains while driving value to many stakeholders (June, 2015)
University of Michigan
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LabStorm
- Using GIS and Social Autopsy to Drive Local Innovations to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health in Rural Ghana (August, 2017)
What Went Wrong?
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LabStorm
- "What Went Wrong? Citizen Journalism on Foreign Aid" – Building a feedback loop between journalists and aid recipients (March, 2018)