Cross-sector Collaboration

From Marble to Formica

By Laura Beaudin

How the Union Bank of California attracts lower-income people to traditional banking.

The Oldest Profession

By John Laurenson

How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.

Turning Conflict into Cooperation

By Peter Asmus, Hank Cauley, & Katharine Maroney

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.

Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship

By Paul C. Light 3

By focusing so much attention on the social entrepreneur we fail to recognize the thousands of others who are crafting solutions to pressing problems.

Podcast

Ticia Gerber - Leadership in Global Health Technology

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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

By Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento 24

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

By Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford 1

Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.