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The role of data in equity and social justice - The Digital Nonprofit with Vu Le

  1.  Contributes over $800billion to the economy  5.5% of the GDP in US, 6.8% of GDP in Canada  3rd largest workforce  Employs 10% of all workers in US, 12% in CA  Over 15,000,000,000 volunteer hours  Increasing growth Source: nonprofitquarterly.org, sectorsource.ca
  2.  58,000+ veterans homeless each night  218,000,000+ kids in child labor  1,000,000+ kids die from starvation  36 football fields of rainforest lost per minute
  3.  Climate change  Immunization  Education
  4.  Hard to measure many outcomes  No standardization of processes, content  Expensive  No one wants to pay for it  So much data in nonprofit sector is crap  Used to hoard resources
  5.  Who has access to resources for data?  Who defines methodology?  Who interprets finding?  Who determines standards?
  6.  Look at contexts surrounding data  Combine qualitative with quantitative  Combine data with community engagement  Reexamine comparison groups  Reexamine agency/causes
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