Tag: Cross-sector Collaboration
Socially Responsible Business
Turning Conflict into Cooperation
The Rainforest Action Network launched a consumer boycott of several Mitsubishi companies, leading to significant changes in the way the firm and many of its partners do business.
Social Entrepreneurship
Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship
By focusing so much attention on the social entrepreneur we fail to recognize the thousands of others who are crafting solutions to pressing problems.
Health
Ticia Gerber - Leadership in Global Health Technology
Ticia Gerber sits at the center of one of the world's important current debates: How do we keep people healthy without having it cost an arm and a leg? At eHealth Initiative and LIGHT, Gerber is working across three continents to bridge the public, private, and social sectors. She talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak in an audio interview about the role of technology in the future of healthcare and what it means to create a dialogue between the developed and developing world.
Nonprofits
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
Environment
Chilling With Greenpeace, From the Inside Out
Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.
Nonprofit Management
What Profits Do for Nonprofits
A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.
Social Entrepreneurship
Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies
Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better.
Nonprofit Management
15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford
Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.
Nonprofits
Postcards from the Nonprofit Congress
Creating a policy platform for the nonprofit sector.