We round out the year by publishing the refined seven BD4D Commitments, and highlighting two of our community partners.
News & Media
July 2025 Newsletter
The Better Deal for Data is a movement shaped by the real world data opportunities, challenges, questions, and stories our community is sharing. Follow our progress as we steward the BD4D principles into practice.
Video: Open Source and AI Collaboration
Jim Fruchterman talks about open source, collaboration, harnessing AI for good, and the Better Deal for Data in this fast-moving lightning talk.
Exit to Open
In a difficult time when many nonprofits will be forced to close, nonprofit leaders and funders must act to preserve data and other intangible assets.
Grant to Increase Agriculture Data Sharing Among Farmers, Partners
The Better Deal for Data receives a grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and the Skoll Foundation to enable and increase agriculture data sharing.
Gather, Share, Build
Why data is one of the biggest challenges to leveraging AI for social good—and how the social sector can address it. Jim Fruchterman cowrites with Nithya Ramanathan for Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Winter 2025 Newsletter
In this uncertain time for the social sector, trust and transparency – and our mission to keep communities’ data safe, and use it to their benefit rather than to harm or exploit them – becomes more critical than ever.