Five Tips for Choosing A Nonprofit
Five tips for choosing a nonprofit.
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Mark Pinsky - Social Enterprise and Community Development
In the social enterprise sector, community development financial institutions have become important vehicles for advancing the well-being of communities through market-based mechanisms. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, CEO Mark Pinsky talks about what his organization, the Opportunity Finance Network, does to support such institutions in improving people's lives in urban, rural, and reservation-based markets.
Podcast
Michael Dan - Responding to H1N1
The issue of the H1N1 influenza pandemic remains a hot topic internationally as confirmed cases are reported daily and concerns about access to the H1N1 vaccine increase. In this audio interview from the Business Roundtable's Partnership for Disaster Response, Executive Director Larry Burton talks with The Brink's Company Chairman, President and CEO and Partnership Chairman Michael Dan. The two discuss the Partnership's recent responses to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Podcast
Richard Boly - Growing Entrepreneurship in Italy
The U.S. government is working to grow the "ecosystem" for entrepreneurship abroad as a part of its international development efforts. In this audio lecture, Richard Boly, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service, discusses how he managed a program of the U.S. embassy to promote entrepreneurship in Italy, a country steeped in bureaucracy and lacking engines of innovation. Speaking at a conference convened by the Hoover Institute at Stanford, he details efforts to connect entrepreneurs with the resources and role models they need to be successful.
Working at a Nonprofit Does Not Equal Social Change
Just because you work at a place the IRS has deemed tax-exempt does not mean you're effecting social change.
Does Generation Y Discriminate Against Baby Boomers? Or Is It the Other Way Around?
Addressing inter-generational tensions in the nonprofit work sphere.
Review
An Environmental Provocateur
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand
Review
How Scale and Innovation Can Coexist
The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin
What Workforce Crisis?
How do nonprofits find and keep workers even in troubled economic times?
Research: Strong Women, Strong Sector
The more empowered a country's women, the more vibrant its nonprofit sector.