Articles P6920
Nonprofits
Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
How do you assess the ability and willingness of the poor to pay for products and services that do not already exist, and how do you convince companies to take a risk on such a vast and fragmented market?
Nonprofits
Big Challenges in Nonprofit Growth
The charitable marketplace needs to challenge nonprofits that operate in sloppy and self-absorbed ways.
Podcast
Rafael Alvarez - Preparing Students to Succeed
While volunteering at a charter school, Rafael Alvarez was confronted with some shocking information—hardly any students in the senior class had plans to attend college. So, in true social entrepreneurial fashion, he decided to match up this under-served market with another under-served market, entry level IT. Talking with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman in this audio interview, he explains how Genesys Works prepares students technically and professionally to enter a corporate environment and change their lives.
Podcast
Rick Duke - Reducing U.S. Emissions Affordably
Now that global warming is recognized as a real and serious problem, discussion is turning to practical challenges of reducing emissions in the long term. Host of the Center for Social Innovation, Rick Duke, discusses a new report by McKinsey & Company that considers how to address the problem affordably. In this audio lecture, Duke outlines some of the emerging technologies and public policy changes that will be needed to support such a process.
Philanthropy
The Poster Child for Failure in Philanthropy
Confessing difficulties encourages organizations to take risks.
The Problem With Trust
The most trusted employees cash in on lax internal controls to fleece nonprofits.
Podcast
William Drayton - The Importance of Being a Changemaker
If you're living on this planet you probably sense that the world is in a time of tremendous change. Ashoka founder William Drayton calls it "Revolution" in his keynote address on the occasion of receiving the Purpose Prize Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. In this audio lecture, Drayton offers inspiring words about the nature of the times we are in, and how becoming a change maker is critical for seizing opportunities that are emerging in these unprecedented times.