LabStorm: Does Building an Impact Ecosystem Like a Social Network Accelerate Social Progress?
With hundreds of thousands of effective nonprofits doing good work
LabStorms are collaborative brainstorming sessions where a group of organizations come together to help one organization wrestle with a feedback-related challenge. They operate in Chatham House rule, meaning no information will be tied back to a particular attendee, but in these blogs we share the anonymized major learnings from each session. If you would like to participate in an upcoming LabStorm (either in person or by videoconference), please drop Corey a note via [email protected]
DataStorm: Decoding the IRS form 990: Collaborating for Open Data
In June 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a flood of information on US nonprofits by making electroni
LabStorm: How Can Storytelling Make Tough Choices Less Isolating?
200 million people in the United States – which includes about 80% of the adult population – are affected by complex health issues. Millions of patients and families deal with the difficult choices surrounding chronic and terminal health…
LabStorm: Listening for Feedback in Refugee Communities
In public discussions and representations of the refugee crisis there is often something missing: the voice of refugees themselves.
Labstorm: Feedback is in the Air
Feedback mechanisms at airport security checkpoints, or the entrance of the World Bank, are inviting. The smiley faces clearly display a range of emotions easy to identify. The buttons themselves are just begging to be pushed. It’s visual. It’s intuitive. But does it effectively close the feedback loop?
DataStorm: Global Value Exchange
Data is powerful. We use data to answer questions, understand problems, and arrive at better solutions. But when stakeholders are interested in different indicators, it’s no easy task to the kinds of data to gather in the first place.
LabStorm: The Feedback Chain is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
Facilitator: Nick van PraagMay 12, 2017 Collecting feedback is arguably a first order requirement for a feedback loop. But the Feedback…
LabStorm: Joined-up Services: Shifting Power to Constituents in Funding Decisions
At FBL LabStorms, we often focus on building and strengthening feedback loops in direct service. These loops often involve constituents and the organizations they with whom they interface on a daily basis.
LabStorm: Provide a Framework to Elicit Meaningful Feedback
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is the world’s largest sexual and reproductive health organization, leading a locally owned, globally connected civil society movement that provides and enables services and champions sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. Working with 152 partner organizations to deliver 175 million sexual and reproductive health services in over 45,000 service delivery points in 172 countries in 2015 alone means that systematically gathering client feedback is no small undertaking.
DataStorm: Storytelling With Data, Simpler Than You Think
The World Bank’s goal to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity cannot be achieved without accessible, understandable, and interoperable data. Prasanna Lal Das and his team at the Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice created TCdata360 to provide just that.