Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector

Networked digital technologies are transforming philanthropy, making it easier for "donors and doers" to find, support and work with one another to address social problems, a new monograph says.

But inequities of access and capacity also keep many individuals and institutions from benefiting from information networks, says Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector.

"Philanthropy is an industry driven by passion and data, and networked technologies have the potential to harness that passion in ways we've barely begun to imagine," says Edward Skloot, co-author of the monograph and director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

The 53-page monograph, published by the center, looks at the ways networked digital technologies are "enabling donors and doer to access vast amounts of data from governments and the social sector, reshaping ways in which they connect with one another, and transforming how social change is produced," the center says in a statement.

Read the full Philanthropy Journal article here.