Making Nonprofit Collaboration a Foundation Strategy: The Lodestar Foundation
The Lodestar Foundation supports nonprofit collaborations, mergers, and other cooperative activities as a major strategy.
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Carter Roberts - Environmental Challenges and Profit Opportunities
Companies that think about the environment as a social responsibility rather than a business imperative are living in the dark ages, says Carter Roberts, president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation audio lecture, Roberts underscores solid business reasons why sustainability is no longer just a nice thing to do, how conservation protects business, and how his organization is addressing the economics, science, and politics of conservation around the world.
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Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Human Capital and Talent
Over the last decade, social entrepreneurship has exploded on the international scene, with corresponding interest in setting up funds to support social ventures. While a whole spectrum of services exists to support the financial industry, the same isn't true of the nonprofit sector. In this panel discussion, experts talk about the need for addressing the talent gap in nonprofit managemnt along with ways to lure talented youngsters to bridge this gap.
Reviewing the Past, Predicting the Future
The author takes a crystal ball to the 2009 economic landscape.
Podcast
Good Measures Conference - Evaluation: New Ways of Working Together
How does an organization get through the evaluation process and live to tell about it? In this panel, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, funders and fundees on both sides of the table from a variety of organizations in the areas of education and social services talk about what it was like to be in the trenches of successful evaluation processes. They tease out common success factors, including how to work collaboratively across sectors and with multiple constituents.
In the Black with BRAC
Serving more than 110 million people per year, BRAC is the largest nonprofit in the world. Yet it doesn't receive the most charitable donations. Instead, BRAC's social enterprises generate 80 percent of the organization's annual budget. These revenues have allowed the organization to develop, test, and replicate some of the world's most innovative antipoverty programs.
Starting Up Women
Successful entrepreneurs show characteristics of both men and women.
Meet Me at the Hub
Grab a mocha and brainstorm.
Review
Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurs
The Search for Social Entrepeneurship by Paul C. Light
GreenNote Friends
GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.