Creating Jobs, Harmonizing Nonprofits, and Diagnosing Disease
The agenda for the off-the-radar Social Innovation Summit read like an all-star team of social innovators.
Tag: Social Enterprise
Innovative ways that nonprofits can generate income by selling products and services
Social Enterprise and Its Discontents
A new study reports that nonprofit agencies which choose to support themselves with for-profit businesses end up serving their clients less and worse.
Upping the Ante: a Report from the Clinton Global Initiative
Last week, for the sixth year in a row, the Sheraton hotel in midtown Manhattan was transformed into schmooze central for more than 1,300 heads of state, 600 business leaders, and 500 NGO leaders from 90 countries on six continents. The invitation-only crowd is attending Bill Clinton's annual three-day Clinton Global Initiative to pledge their time, money and vast social networks to commit global problem-solving. But this year, the mood of the delegates is far less competitive: there are far fewer vanity causes, far fewer self-congratulatory press conferences, less pitching of the resident press for an easy story... (continue reading this blog post)
Digital Job Creation For Youth
Last week in Kenya, I had a glimpse into the future. It is a space that integrates outsourcing demands, IT skills, entrepreneurship, and the formal economy with employment opportunities for the poor, particularly women and youth.
Welcome to the world of micro-work. I was visiting a Samasource training center in Nairobi. Samasource is a social enterprise with a mission to provide productive and dignified computer-based work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty... (continue reading this post)
Micro-multinationals Rising
Social media are enabling a new kind of social enterprise: micro-multinational companies. They're small, Web-wired startups that are using social media to find, then recruit, the best new talent from around the globe and leverage it for immediate innovation, impact and sustainability. Unlike traditionally large, multinational companies, micro-multinationals are new digital startups that are global by virtue of the development teams they’ve hired from around the world... (continue reading this blog post)
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Catalytic Philanthropy Forces Collaboration in Leadership
The SSIR’s webinar, ‘Catalytic Philanthropy:
A New Approach in Uncertain Times’ really got me thinking a lot about leadership in the social sector.
A catalytic philanthropist, as described by Mark Kramer in his article Catalytic Philanthropy is an individual who takes responsible for achieving actionable results, mobilizing a campaign for change, uses all available tools and creates actionable knowledge. Kramer argued that there was a need for philanthropists... (continue reading this blog post)
Turning the Tides: The Future of Environmentally Conscious Social Innovation
The sun was bright on a clear day across San Francisco for “Turning the Tide,” a global environment conference last Friday. Hosted at picturesque Fort Baker, the Institute at the Golden Gate brought representatives from the corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial start-up worlds together to discuss and share their opinions about some of today’s most pressing environmental issues and most promising innovationst... (continue reading this blog post)
Radical Transparency Will Change the World
A new counterbalance to corporate power is developing: radical transparency, according to ad guru Alex Bogusky. Bogusky is convinced that this real-time transparency, caused by today’s redistributed power and emerging technologies, can be win-win. Radical transparency can be good for corporations and good for the world. It’s the way that humanity can take back control from corporations... (continue reading this blog post)
How to Start a Nonprofit Side Hustle: Know the Basics
First, the bad news. Because of the economy, many nonprofit professionals (in addition to many other professionals) are looking for ways to earn extra money due to being laid off from their jobs or being placed on part-time status by their organizations. But the good news is that also due to the economy, lots of organizations are even more short-staffed than ever and are in need of temporary, part-time or consulting help... (continue reading this blog post)
Mobile: Increasingly on Call
On February 20, Harvard Business School (HBS) hosted its eleventh annual “Africa Business Conference,” a collection of high-profile discussions, many of which focused on the centrality of telecommunications, mobile banking, and new media in African development. On February 27, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) held its “Policy Making in a Digital World” conference featuring luminaries such as Jonathan Zittrain, co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, panelists from the U.S. Department of State, and innovators from new platforms such as Ushahidi that enable crowd-sourced crisis mapping via SMS, and were instrumental to saving lives in Haiti… (continue reading this blog post)
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