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Social Innovations

Platforms for Collaboration

Some of the brightest ideas for social change grow in the spaces between organizations and sectors. Yet few organizations have systems that make collaboration happen. To foster innovation, organizations need to develop places where they can come together and work creatively—that is, platforms for collaboration. In this article, a management expert identifies three kinds of collaboration platforms—exploration, experimentation, and execution—and then outlines what organizations can do to put these platforms to work for them.

By Satish Nambisan | Summer 2009
 
STRATEGY FOR
SUSTAINABILITY:
A Business Manifesto
Adam Werbach

Business

Greening the Corporation

Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach

Reviewed By Amory Lovins | Summer 2009
 
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Environment

Shades of Green

Social networking tools reveal that there is an intricate web of relationships between business and environmentalists, which if developed could benefit the environmental movement.

By Andrew J. Hoffman | 3 | Spring 2009
 
THE BLUE SWEATER:
Bridging the Gap
Between Rich and Poor
in an Interconnected
World
Jacqueline Novogratz

Social Innovations

It’s the Destination

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz

Reviewed By Pamela Hartigan | 4 | Spring 2009
 
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Fundraising

Ten Nonprofit Funding Models

For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider" or "the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives are not as explicit about their funding models and have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.

By William Landes Foster, Peter Kim, & Barbara Christiansen | 24 | Spring 2009
 

Business

What’s Next: The Pepsi Spirit—of Giving Back

Pepsi's free CSR: enrolling more than 27,000 of its U.S. employees in the Wireless AMBER Alert Program.

By Jennifer Roberts | Spring 2009
 

Government

What’s Next: Polling Power

A new Web site shows voters who like-minded peers, organizations, and opinion leaders support.

By Jennifer Roberts | Spring 2009
 

Social Innovations

Root Solutions

Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.

By Suzie Boss | Spring 2009
 

Social Entrepreneurship

Creating Social Value

The idea that social entrepreneurs create something called social value—good works that go above and beyond what traditional entrepreneurs and businesses deliver—is a dearly held tenet of the social change movement. But what exactly is social value, and how do social entrepreneurs go about creating it?

By Philip Auerswald | 1 | Spring 2009
 
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Philanthropy

Nau and Again

When Nau, an outdoor clothing start-up from Portland, Ore., launched in 2005, word on the street had it that the company would push socially responsible business to new heights. But barely a year after putting its earth-toned parkas and virgin merino wool sweaters up for sale in its übercool “webfront” stores, Nau pulled the plug. Find out how Nau tried on too much, too fast.

By Suzie Boss | Winter 2009