Advocacy
How Progressive Nonprofits Can Navigate Conservative GOP Washington
Ten practical strategies to open doors on Capitol Hill.
Rich Tafel
Rich Tafel (@richtafel) is the founder of Public Squared multiplying citizen impact in social change. He trains world changers in the often complex world of public policy. A serial social innovator, Rich has launched two nonprofits and two for-profits, and has worked with more than 100 social entrepreneurs around the world. He speaks the languages of faith, conservatives, liberals, business, academics, and politics, and has spent the last twenty years engaged in shaping public policy for those without a voice in the system.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Power of a Simple and Inclusive Definition
To live up to its vision to change the world for the better, the social entrepreneur movement must clearly and simply define itself.
Board Governance
World-Changing Organizations Deserve World-Class Boards
Empowered boards are critical to the success of organizations.
Social Entrepreneurship
Changing the Social Sector’s Policy Pitch
The social sector has utterly failed to create a compelling pitch to the political sector about what we do.
Social Entrepreneurship
Titanic Solutions for a Sinking World
Four concrete lessons for social innovators.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish
Too often we engage in linear, simplistic solutions, when lasting change requires collaborative efforts.
Global Issues
Diversity and the Komen-Planned Parenthood Debacle
An important lesson that no one is talking about but that we all need to learn.
Social Entrepreneurship
True Leadership Means Wrestling Away the Steering Wheel
We need social change leaders who are ready to tackle systems that perpetuate injustice.
Business
Don’t Occupy Wall Street—Transform It
It’s time for a new generation of social change leaders to move beyond occupying Wall Street to transform it.
Nonprofit Management
Justice Begins within the Social Entrepreneur Organization
Social change organizations should focus on creating a just organizational culture for themselves before bringing about global justice.
Health
Mexico’s Businesses Cooperation: a Global Model for Health Care Innovation
Workplace wellness councils are emerging as one of the most powerful leaders in reducing health care costs and improving health.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurs Must Achieve Not Survive
The sector needs to shift the definition of success from organizations that survive to organizations that actually achieve their missions.
Fundraising
Becoming the Sustainability We Seek
So focused on short-term funding for survival, the nonprofit sector is losing its ability to implement innovative solutions to the world’s problems.