Review: What Matters Most
The authors offer an inside view of corporate social responsibility at work.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Review: Third Sector Development
Nonprofits are still sorely needed in the US.
Bettering Beantown
Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.
Review: Civic Revolutionaries
Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization.
Learn to Love Lobbying
Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make change, nonprofits must learn to lobby. And who knows? They may even learn to love it.
The People’s IPO
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
15 Minutes with Victoria Hale
MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.
One Buyer at a Time
Aid organizations help build small businesses build capacity without asking whether people want the businesses’ products. As these stories show, successful programs start with real buyers.
Capitalizing on Convergence
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.
Podcast
Panel Discussion - Fostering Effective Nonprofit-Corporate Relations
Nonprofits and corporations can achieve their goals by working together. In this panel discussion, 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp panelists describe the various forms of partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, their benefits, and their pitfalls. They talk about how to start and develop successful partnerships from the perspective of people who have sat on both sides of the table.