Platform for social good

Integrated Platform for Social Good

Community + Data Market + Donation Integrator

BlockData4Good is a platform of four online services that connect individuals and entities involved in the social economy. Those who do the work and those who donate to that work can access information and provide data to the platform.

The platform will provide the following services:

1. Data Philanthropy Platform
Stakeholders in the social good economy can increase the impact of every investment by donating an anonymized digital record of the donation to the BlockData4Good platform.

Donors can record donations, grants and social impact investments in the social economy
Doers (nonprofits) can record receipts of grants, social impact investment funding and donations from individuals, entities and government (and even make donation through the platform, see below).

2. Community Platform
The community will establish the governance, data standards and community engagement protocols for the new digital platform. The platform will be designed by the community.

Community members can earn digital tokens by adding new data records, tagging existing data records or by adding value to the community by reporting and active participation in community outreach initiatives. build and enhance the data active participation in the community.

3. Donation Portal through Partnerships
With all of the verified nonprofits on one platform tagged with their most recent or largest donation, it is only natural to provide a donation path to any nonprofit that chooses this new income stream. It is easy and secure for both the donor and the nonprofit.

Nonprofit Directory - Every participating nonprofit can develop their unique online page in the nonprofit directory. This page can provide photos and links to research or other websites. This page will pull data from other sources for validation of current tax (ngo) status. Direct donations can be made with one-click from this page.
Executive Donor Portal - Executive Donors (special membership required) will have the ability to store their basic donor data in a secure online portal. This data can include donation history, matching gift forms or other tax related documents. Executive Donors can make donations online with one-click and use the platform to track and manage their social investment giving portfolio.
Parent Philanthropy Portal- The Parent Philanthropy Portal will provide a safe online experience where parents can teach their children about personal philanthropy. Through the secure online parent portal, parents can establish a bank account for their children's allowance and teach them about philanthropy by approving micro-transactions their child has chosen.

4. Database
The BlockData4Good platform is on-chain blockchain integrated with off-line artificial intelligence (AI) database to provide accurate actionable data on investments in the social economy for investors (looking forward), practitioners (examining current trends) and researchers (looking back to predict the future).

Grants from entities and government, donations and other investments in the social economy provide important information about trends in society. Elevating this data in a timely manner through a universal data-sharing platform ensures that the social economy benefits from the social economy data.
The ability to 'look inward' across a community of practice from data collected from individual funding partners,
Through basic transaction data, the 'data exhaust' from the grant making/funding process, or the eventual 990 process (but this is much later in the data-cycle) begin to create a data set for researchers and potential new investors in the social economy.

What BlockData4Good is NOT

The goal of the system is to create a searchable database for all investments in the social sector. The database will provide investment insights for DONORS, and highlight collaboration opportunities for DOERS. By design, only select data will be contributed to the database, as a result, and by design, the database will not support the following objectives:

Governance and oversight of participants, as the sum of investment data will never equal 990 data.
Assessment/Evaluation data, as this data is not collected by this site. BD4G data will instead provide building blocks for that work.
Transparency goals, as metric for implied goodness, cannot be supported as only partial data sets will be collected.

Shared Data

To the grandest extent possible, the database will be available to members of the community, regardless of their participation level.

Partnerships

The social sector is comprised of individuals, nonprofits, corporations and government agencies. Each playing critical roles in providing data in this vital ecosystem. Strong partnerships with data providers and other actors in the sector will ensure a rich data source that does not replicate, but instead enhances the work of institutions by providing a central publishing platform for their work.

Data Standards

The database will support existing data standards in the social sector. Including: