Non Profits

Top-Down and Bottom-Up

Paul Brest | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, Bill Somerville, Bill Schambra, Funding Non-Profits, Non-Profits, Business News, Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, Living News
Paul Brest

Philanthropy is inevitably top-down in the sense that a philanthropist must choose his or her goals. No philanthropist would fund both a group advocating for gay marriage and a group seeking to ban it.

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Strategic Philanthropy

Paul Brest | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Bill Schambra, Non-Profits, Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, Funding Non-Profits, Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, Business News
Paul Brest

Whether an organization is housing the poor or improving educational outcomes a philanthropist has every reason to ask whether it has a sound strategy, good track record, and good leadership.

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Battling Our Greatest Fear

Danny Elfman | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Non-Profits, 2008 Election, Grassroots, Palin Vice President, Our Greatest Fear, Sarah Palin, Political Activism, Danny Elfman, Politics News
Danny Elfman

Many McCain supporters and undecided voters feel the same discomfort level that I do with Sarah Palin. They are the ones who I wanted to connect with.

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The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist...

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 08.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Organic Food, Prison, Chicago, Incarceration Rates, Non-Profits, Jail, Green Business, Green Living, Organic Eating, Growing Home, Food Security, Living News
Frances Moore Lappe

Suddenly, organic food looks less like a yuppie luxury and more like it could and should be a staple for our sanity and security.

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Politics, Personalities and the Business of Doing Good

Jake Brewer | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Neil Bush, Public Good, Social Responsibility, Volunteers, Collaboration, Non-Profits, Partnerships, Corporate Social Responsibility, Points of Light, Social Sector, Business News
Jake Brewer

Trying to make the world a better place is messy and almost always full of the same back-room shenanigans chronicled throughout the political sectors, but with one difference: those involved act like it's not, and no one talks about it.

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The Metropolitan Opera -- Turnaround Case Study

Ben Rosen | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Not-for-Profits, Case Study, Metropolitan Opera, Satyagraha, Opera, Non-Profits, Marketing, Turnaround, HD Telecast, Mba, Met Opera, Business Case, Peter Gelb, Business News
Ben Rosen

Even though opera is an anachronism, a centuries-old art form replete with some of the creakiest plots imaginable, the 2008 opera -- at least the Met Opera-- is where the action is.

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Why Volunteer?

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Non-Profits, Donating to Charity, Charity, MacArthur Genius Grant, Volunteers, Living News
Marilyn M. Machlowitz

Many ideas emanating from nonprofits have better longterm impact than some of the innovations emanating from the private sector.

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Nonprofit Innovation with Salesforce.com

Jake Brewer | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Non-Profits, Salesforce Foundation, Technology, Cycling, Business News
Jake Brewer

The 1.5 million community-serving organizations now have access to the same innovative technology tools used by the largest and most successful companies on the planet.

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Paying To Save the World

Eric Brown | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Non-Profits, Games for Change, Social Entrepreneur, PeaceMaker, Business News
Eric Brown

When given the chance, consumers will even spend more on a "red" or "green" product. So why is there an aversion to people profiting from positive work?

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A Holiday Message

Marc Gunther | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Green Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Center for a New American Dream, Spending, Thanksgiving, changingthepresent.com, Non-Profits, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Buy Nothing Day, Carbon Neutral, Green Thanksgiving, Charities, Business News
Marc Gunther

Almost nothing about the holiday shopping season, as it is currently constructed, is sustainable. We're buying (and throwing away) too much.

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Changing The World, Together

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Collaborative Work, Non-Profits, Philantrophy, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

If these passionate groups could find ways to communicate and collaborate with each other, we could combine resources, save time, and accomplish a great deal more.

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We Can't Say We Don't Know

Polly LaBarre | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Charity Organizations, Victoria Hale, Clinton Global Initiative, Charity, One World Health, Deep Ocean, Jessica Flannery, Micro-Finance, Non-Profits, Pop!Tech, The Deep, Non-Profit Pharmaceutical, Claire Nouvian, Fighting Malaria, Kiva, Living News
Polly LaBarre

Pop!Tech speakers offered up valuable and visceral accounts of personal moments of truth that took them off the career path and put them on the path to making a difference.

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