Business
15 Minutes with Hannah Jones
SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills spoke with Nike’s Hannah Jones about the sportswear giant’s extensive corporate social responsibility programs.
Articles P7210
Podcast
Fazle H. Abed - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Fazle Abed explains in this audio lecture how the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is leading grassroots efforts to achieve the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh. He describes a multipronged strategy aimed at education, gender equality, health, environmental, economic, and political progress.
Philanthropy
Form Should Follow Function
Helping donors choose the options that meet their values regarding change, costs, tax, and family benefits is as important to the philanthropic markets as is providing good advice about nonprofits to support.
Social Innovations
The Power of Strategic Mission Investing
A growing number of foundations are offering low-interest loans, buying into green business ventures, and investing in other asset classes to advance their missions. To bring about real change, foundations need to make strategic mission investments that complement their grantmaking and leverage market forces.
Podcast
Amory Lovins - Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Part 2
Well-designed buildings not only conserve energy and reduce costs but also create conditions for better health and wellness. In this audio lecture, Amory Lovins uses several examples to show how the right mix of materials, resources, and expertise can create structures that celebrate living.
Podcast
Amory Lovins - Energy Efficient Design For Buildings - Part 1
Buildings represent an ideal opportunity for reducing energy use through clever design. In this audio lecture, Amory Lovins explores the many possibilities that building design offers us to "think outside of the box" in order to save energy. He shares numerous examples of effective design and even a few cases where smart energy design actually costs less to build, not more.
Global Issues
“In the 21st Century, the March Isn’t the Vehicle”
Cell phones, not marches, may be the social movement vehicle of the future.
Social Innovations
Community Foundations Called To Fund Local Media
What can foundation funding do to improve local media information?
Philanthropy
If We Don’t Give Donors Power, They Can Take It
Earn the right to have relationships with your donors.