Articles Tagged With 'social+change'
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| Spring 2003 | Philanthropy • Foundations • Philanthropy • Foundations • Q&A | 15 Minutes with Susan Berresford Susan V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation, discusses her approach to philanthropy. | |
| Summer 2003 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health | 15 Minutes with John Seffrin CEO of the American Cancer Society. | |
| Spring 2004 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business | Invention for the Common Good [Free!] Four reasons corporations should engage in social responsibility. | |
| Spring 2004 | Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Business • Socially Responsible Business | Best of Breed [Free!] When it comes to gaining a market edge while supporting a social cause, ‘corporate social marketing’ leads the pack. | |
| Summer 2004 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Environment • Civil Society | Making Change Why does the social sector need social movements? | |
| Fall 2004 | Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Human Rights • Civil Society |
The Tempered Radicals
How employees push their companies – little by little – to be more socially responsible. |
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| Fall 2004 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management | Take Advantage of Us! Retiring baby boomers are dying to retool their professional skills to help society. How can society help them do so? | |
| Spring 2006 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership | Passing the Torch Baby boomers face the future, and it's not us. | |
| Spring 2006 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Charter Schools • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy | Investing in Change [Free!] Calvert Community Investment Notes take social investing mainstream. | |
| Fall 2006 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits | A New Take on Tithing [Free!] Too often, individuals make decisions about how much money to donate to charitable causes on an ad hoc basis. As a result, many people give less money than they can actually afford. If the affluent contributed as much to nonprofits as the authors believe they can, charitable giving in the United States would increase by $100 billion a year – enough to solve many of the world’s most pressing problems. | |
| Winter 2007 | Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Civil Society | Networks for Good Works Most people think of networking as a means for advancing their own self-interest. But successful social innovators take a different tack, nurturing close ties between members and infusing their networks with a common set of values. As a result, their networks power both personal transformations and large-scale social changes. | |
| Winter 2007 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Poverty • Civil Society | Rolls-Royce Radicals Responsible Wealth, a Boston-based nonprofit, is convincing many affluent Americans to challenge the very rules that made them rich. Far from mere check writers or “limousine liberals,” these wealthy activists work against their self-interest to stamp out inequality at its source: unfair laws and policies. Their unique strategy of using privilege to contest privilege not only has attracted the rich and famous to their ranks, but also has bent the ears of senators and CEOs. | |
| Winter 2007 | Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Religion & Culture |
Faith in Fair Trade
How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good. |
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| Spring 2007 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations | Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition [Free!] How do you define social entrepreneurship? | |
| Spring 2007 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Government • Social Policy | Learn to Love Lobbying [Free!] Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make change, nonprofits must learn to lobby. And who knows? They may even learn to love it. | |
| Spring 2004 | Social Innovations • Global Issues • Civil Society | Review: Civic Revolutionaries Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization. | |
| Fall 2007 | Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofit Leadership | Creating High-Impact Nonprofits [Free!] Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others. | |
| Fall 2007 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment | Harnessing Purity and Pragmatism As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek. | |
| Winter 2008 | Social Innovations • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education • Poverty • Civil Society | 15 Minutes with Thomas Vander Ark SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with the X Prize Foundation’s president, Thomas Vander Ark, about how prizes can stimulate social innovation. | |
| Winter 2008 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health • Environment • Civil Society | Competing for a Change [Free!] How Changemakers’ “collaborative competitions” harness the wisdom of crowds. | |
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