Nonprofits
Responsible and Successful Collaboration
How do we prevent collaboration from sweeping through nonprofits as a passing fad?
Nonprofits
Empowering Others to Tell Your Organization’s Story
Personal connections and influence can be crucial in garnering support for an organization’s cause.
Nonprofits
The Nature of the Future: From Institutions to Amplified Individuals
Technology can enable micro-contributions that allow individuals to accomplish difficult tasks in place of institutional approaches.
Advocacy
The Science Behind Compassion
Dr. James Doty highlights our "compassion deficit" and the need to recognize the societal and individual benefits of altruism.
Civic Engagement
Starting a RYOT In Traditional News
Host Ned Breslin speaks with the RYOT founders about their plans to disrupt traditional media by allowing people to “Become the News.”
Nonprofits
The Whole World In Our Hands
From the 2013 Nonprofit Management Institute, Kenyon explains how the intersection of mobile, social, and technology is changing nonprofits.
Nonprofits
Achieve Great Things: The Art and Science of Aspirational Narrative
In his 2013 Nonprofit Management Institute talk, Doug Hattaway outlines the components of effective campaigns: an exciting goal, motivational language, and compelling call to action.
Business
Social Enterprise Enables Hazelnut Farming in Bhutan
The supply chain is just as important as the product. A social entrepreneur describes his experience dealing with value-creating tools and ensuring corporate social responsibility.
Arts & Culture
Rodney Mullen: Innovation Doesn’t Exist In A Vacuum
Innovation can exist in even the most unlikely forms. A professional skateboarder and the CEO of a social enterprise discuss the intersection of their two fields.
Business
Leveraging Social Innovation
Social innovations in supply chains have the potential for making an impact on a large scale. Experts describe innovations that are benefiting society and delivering economic value.
Business
Environmental Sustainability in China Advanced Through Supply Chain Transparency
Ma Jun, Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, describes the positive results achieved through the China Water Pollution Map.
Business
Environmental Sustainability through “Waste to Worth” Vision
Jill Boughton, CEO of Sustainable WasteResources International, discusses environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Global Issues
Tackling Energy Poverty With Pay-As-You-Go Solar
Lesley Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, discusses an approach to energy poverty that helps end users afford efficient energy and lighting products.
Social Entrepreneurship
Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Africa
Ned Breslin speaks with Towera Jalakasi, an innovative entrepreneur who talks about the struggles and rewards of entrepreneurship in a developing economy.
Global Issues
Turning Poison into Economic Opportunity
Arup SenGupta speaks about his project to eliminate arsenic from groundwater without the use of electricity or chemicals.