According to the New York Times, the Social Innovation Fund has agreed to release the ratings of its review panels, a move that will very likely help observers understand why some groups about which there were questions, proceeded through the process to become grantees despite the fact that they received the lowest ratings from some panels. We believe this is a major step towards restoring attention to the substance, rather than to the process, of the SIF's work.

Last week the Nonprofit Quarterly issued a call for transparency at the Social Innovation Fund and yesterday the SIF issued an answer to that call, albeit one that still falls short of the openness that the Obama Administration promised to observe.