Articles Tagged With 'social+change'
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| Winter 2009 | Global Issues • Health • Civil Society | What’s Next: Paying for Safe Sex Paying people to practice safe sex. | |
| Winter 2009 | Global Issues • Environment • Arts | What’s Next: Treks, Plugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Rockers go green. | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Global Issues • Civil Society | What’s Next: Meet Me at the Hub Grab a mocha and brainstorm. | |
| Winter 2009 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Environment | Clean Sweep [Free!] E + Co connects the dots between energy, poverty, and the environment. | |
| Winter 2009 | Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Poverty • Civil Society | Romanticizing the Poor [Free!] Market solutions to poverty, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful. | |
| Winter 2009 | Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Education • Environment |
Clicking for Smart CSR
National Instrument's partnerships not only energize science education, but also boost the company's brand and employee morale. Left: An engineer readies her robot at the 2008 FIRST Lego League World Festival, an annual competition that brings together teams of students to show off their engineering chops. Powering her robot was sophisticated software developed by National Instruments. Her team, the Power Peeps of Swartz Creek, Mich., placed third. |
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| Winter 2009 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Health | Eyeing Talent VisionSpring picks promising social entrepreneurs to restore the eyesight of poor people. | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Global Issues • Education • Civil Society | Full Scale Ahead [Free!] To grow to full scale, serving 50,000 students a year, YouthBuild's federal funding must increase from $60 million to $125 million annually. Local programs will also need to raise $250 million annually from state and local education and criminal justice funds, and from private donors. How does YouthBuild plan to achieve this breakthrough and help five times as many people? | |
| Spring 2009 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Leadership • Global Issues • Education • Poverty • Environment • Arts | What’s Next: Social Entrepreneurs Take the Leads Skoll and Sundance hope documentary films prove powerful in making social change. | |
| Spring 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Reviews | It’s the Destination [Free!] The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz | |
| Summer 2009 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Cause Marketing • Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Socially Responsible Business | The Hidden Costs of Cause Marketing [Free!] From pink ribbons to Product Red, cause marketing adroitly serves two masters, earning profits for corporations while raising funds for charities. Yet the short-term benefits of cause marketing—also known as consumption philanthropy—belie its long-term costs. These hidden costs include individualizing solutions to collective problems; replacing virtuous action with mindless buying; and hiding how markets create many social problems in the first place. Consumption philanthropy is therefore unsuited to create real social change. | |
| Summer 2009 | Social Innovations • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business | 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. | |
| Summer 2009 | Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises • B Corporation | Making the B List [Free!] The B Corp seal of approval distinguishes truly responsible businesses from mere poseurs. | |
| Summer 2009 | Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship |
Social Entrepreneurship Revisited [Free!]
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today. The question is not whether social entrepreneurship is a term in good currency, but what it actually means. |
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| Summer 2009 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education • Poverty • Arts | Art Mimics Art Manchester Bidwell Corporation replicates by adapting general strategies to local cultures. | |
| Fall 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Cause Marketing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Altruism • Business • Socially Responsible Business | Catalytic Philanthropy [Free!] Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs is “catalytic philanthropy”—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors. | |
| Fall 2009 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Global Issues • Civil Society • Reviews | Staying Vibrant and Curious [Free!] Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner | |
| Fall 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Global Issues • Poverty • Human Rights • Civil Society | Microfinance for the Most Marginalized Small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people. | |
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