Social Innovations
Climate Science as Culture War
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology.
Review
Online Giving - Most Popular
Innovative ways to use the Internet to raise and donate money (more)
Technology & Design
Social Media: Getting Value Means Giving Value
Four tips for moving your social media out of zombie status—and making your investment in it worthwhile.
Technology & Design
Gaming with a Purpose
Serious games tap into the same culture of online friendship from social networking to fuel peer involvement and encourage collaboration around real-world challenges.
Fundraising
Make It Personal
The rapid spread of social media has catapulted the possibilities and scale of relationship-building into the stratosphere.
Review
Philanthropy
Go-Getters and Givers
Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Podcast
Social Innovations
Creating Infectious Action
Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.
Nonprofits
ACORN, NPR, Planned Parenthood, and the Sector’s Challenges in Protecting Itself
There should be greater concern over who is protecting nonprofits that find themselves in situations like that of NPR, which recently lost its federal funding.
Podcast
Education
NewSchools Venture Summit
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chairman of the House Committee on Education George Miller, address the NewSchools Summit 2010.
Fundraising
Nonprofits Pipe Up
Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder, has created a social media platform called Jumo designed specifically for nonprofits.
Online Giving
Kiva.org: The Dynamics of Group Lending
Transforming the world of microfinance, Kiva.org has successfully implemented strategies that powerfully effect human engagement.