Labstorm: How Can Feedback Build Trust Between Communities and Government?
The Accountability Lab works to encourage a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.
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]
Labstorm: Tools to Open Up: A Compendium of Donor & CSO Strategies to Combat Shrinking Civic Space
The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a collaborative of leading funders of transparency, accountability, and civic participation (TAP) interventions around the world.
LabStorm: Engaging Survivors in Strategies to Prevent and Disrupt Human Trafficking
Polaris uses data-driven strategies to prevent and disrupt human trafficking, a $150 billion industry that affects 25 million people worldwide.
LabStorm: Filling the Democratic Void and Enabling Mass Participation
VocalEyes is a digital platform to turn ideas into action. A hub for community organizing, community members can gather, suggest new ideas for projects or policy, prioritize and debate them.
LabStorm: Stories and Philanthropy – Using first-person audio accounts to improve feedback
Stemming from the traditions of oral history, Memria is a software and services company that has been built to complement existing tools used by nonprofits, advocacy organizations, libraries, and other institutions to enhance their story collection abilities.
LabStorm: Relationship Based Feedback
The Siegel Family Endowment (SFE) has a relationship-driven approach to grant making. They commit to collaboration with their grantees: beginning each grant cycle co-creating an engagement process, writing the proposal with Program Officers, and facilitating three touch points for feedback throughout the grant period.
LabStorm: Can a “Yelp” for Homelessness Unlock Transparency?
Homelessness is a complex problem. In New York City alone there are 128,000 people experiencing homelessness and another 4 million are living below the poverty line. A wide range of city and nonprofit service providers work to …
LabStorm: Does Building an Impact Ecosystem Like a Social Network Accelerate Social Progress?
With hundreds of thousands of effective nonprofits doing good work
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…