Rebuilding Haiti with Microfinance (Video)
Partnership brings greater social impact. This post features a video.
Articles P6270
Fun for a Change
Volkswagen believes that doing the right thing—taking the stairs, reducing litter, and driving an eco-friendly car—can be pleasurable and desirable.
Social Innovations
Five People You Should Be Following on Twitter
A list of social innovators worth watching.
Podcast
David La Piana - Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations
David La Piana has been recognized as a leading expert on nonprofit management and governance. In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, La Piana presents a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliance to joint ventures to full-scale mergers, all to which falls under a term he has coined as strategic restructuring. Nonprofit management leaders are finding strategic restructuring as a way to respond to the current economic conditions.
Social Innovations
Asking the Right Questions
A report on a talk by Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute, professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
Fairness, Justice, and the Social Sector
A new report suggests that no matter how narrow a foundation’s (or by extension, a nonprofit’s) mission, it should creatively serve a broad base of beneficiaries and not exclude the poor or minorities.