Check Out The New Philanthropy Trend: Data Donation


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Matt Stempeck, civic technologist, has made a proposal in a recent Harvard Business Review post stating that tech companies, specifically, should consider donating data instead of money.

Stempeck quotes Hilary Mason, a data scientist at Accel Partners, saying, "Share data, and you make the world a more interesting place in a direction that you’re interested in."

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