Fast Company Profiles Open Philanthropy

Thanks to Fast Company's Co.Exist blog and Nathaniel James for calling attention to the progress being made in "open philanthropy." It is an unduly generous profile of me but the real news is the exciting progress being made on sharing data about private resources for public good and treating these data as public goods. Other elements of what is changing that are not mentioned in the Fast Co article:

• World Bank's Open Data Initiative and Mapping
• Philanthropic connections between global open government movements
• Foundation Center's Glasspockets
• WASHfunders (also from Foundation Center)
• Open Society Foundation's research sharing 
• Open Source FLUXX grants management software
• Guardian UK data projects on global development
• Data Without Borders
• Code for America, Civic Commons and nonprofit partnerships
• New ways scientific data is being shared in the public interest - like PLoS and Figshare

What's most exciting? That the list above could go on and on...