Video: Open Source and AI Collaboration

May 28, 2025

Wondering how to separate the AI hype from its exciting potential to advance your organization’s social mission? Jim Fruchterman talks about open source, collaboration, harnessing AI for good, and the Better Deal for Data in this fast-moving lightning talk at Data on Purpose Virtual Summit 2025.

Two of the resources he mentions are the AI Treasure Map, a tool to help decide whether to use AI for a specific task; and his recent article for the London School of Economics, Glorious RAGs: A Safer Path to Using AI in the Social Sector.

End of Year Greetings from BD4D

We round out the year by publishing the refined seven BD4D Commitments, and highlighting two of our community partners.

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.

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.