Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship
By focusing so much attention on the social entrepreneur we fail to recognize the thousands of others who are crafting solutions to pressing problems.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Podcast
Nonprofit-Private Alliances - Bridging the Gap Panel
The corporate world is oftentimes approached for favors, but very few evolve into mutually beneficial alliances between nonprofits and private-sector companies. As described in this audio lecture, First Book's Kyle Zimmer and Disney executive Kathy Franklin explain what it takes to build a successful long-term strategic relationship.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
Chilling With Greenpeace, From the Inside Out
Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.
What Profits Do for Nonprofits
A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.
All That Jazz
Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.
Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies
Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better.
15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford
Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.
Podcast
Ethan Zuckerman - Bringing Technology to Africa
As a technologist, Ethan Zuckerman has spent much time working with the new generation of African entrepreneurs, programmers, organizers, and young people who are hooking up their continent to the Web. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Zuckerman explains how these new netizens are changing the way villagers and urban dwellers learn, organize, network, and face the challenges of poverty, AIDS, political strife, and making a living.
Postcards from the Nonprofit Congress
Creating a policy platform for the nonprofit sector.