Bite-Sized Goodness
The Extraordinaries have created a web-based platform that allows people to easily volunteer short amounts of time.
Altruism - Most Popular
Philanthropy
Haiti Relief Underscores Deeper Needs
The recent Haiti earthquake and relief show that funders are not willing to make the significant investments needed to support nonprofits.
How to Help Haiti
How donors can more effectively provide long-term support in rebuilding Haiti after a devastating earthquake.
Review
Philanthropy
Rethinking Human Nature
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner
Social Innovations
Catalytic Philanthropy
Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs is “catalytic philanthropy”—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors.
Social Innovations
The Hidden Costs of Cause Marketing
From pink ribbons to Product Red, cause marketing adroitly serves two masters, earning profits for corporations while raising funds for charities. Yet the short-term benefits of cause marketing—also known as consumption philanthropy—belie its long-term costs. These hidden costs include individualizing solutions to collective problems; replacing virtuous action with mindless buying; and hiding how markets create many social problems in the first place. Consumption philanthropy is therefore unsuited to create real social change.
Podcast
Jennifer Aaker - The Psychology of Giving
Research shows that spending time and money on others makes people happy—so why don't more people donate to or volunteer for nonprofits? In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Stanford marketing professor Jennifer Aaker offers insights into the phenomenon. She then turns those insights into lessons in nonprofit management that organizations can use to create compelling ways for more people to give financially and personally to the causes they care about.
Philanthropy
Fundraising in Tough Times
Our economy is in bad shape and will only get worse. So what can fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize income?