Methods & Case Studies
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Open Grantmaking Innovations
This series of resources describes how more open and effective grantmaking innovations can improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of grant-based public investments.
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Living Evidence and Visualization
Living Evidence is the process of gathering and combining large quantities of evidence (i.e. research studies or data) related to a topic of interest into a consolidated format using computational tools and regularly generating updated summaries as new evidence emerges...
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The King Baudouin Foundation’s Social Profit DATATrust
The King Baudouin Foundation in collaboration with social sector organizations–UNISOC, UNIPSO, Verso, BRUXEO, and ConcertES–developed a platform that aggregates data from across the social sector in Belgium. Managed by several non-profit stakeholders, the platform supports data analysts, business analysts, developers and others in data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of data-driven insights.
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Digital Ethnography
Digital Ethnography is the process of using digital technologies to learn about the shared ambitions, behavior, culture, and experiences of communities across different issues...
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Futures Studies
Futures Studies is the process of examining how systems could evolve over time in order to anticipate and prepare for multiple future outcomes...
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Participatory Sourcing of Questions
Participatory Sourcing of Questions (PSQ) is a method to scope, formulate, and prioritize data-actionable research questions with key stakeholders...
Evaluating the methods’ maturity level
While many of the methods included on the platform are new to the philanthropic sector, these methods have been tried and tested in several other domains.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is a framework that can be used to assess the maturity level of digital innovations and whether they will be sustained overtime. The following figure summarizes our distillation of where the methods included in DATA4Philanthropy are situated within the Hype Cycle. This positioning was based on our own sense-making of the method performs in terms of the following questions: