Nonprofit Management
Five Levers of Social Change: Part 4
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Tag: Environmental Sustainability
Global Issues
Philanthropy’s New Bottom Line: A More Sustainable Capitalism
It’s time to look at investment and social-ecological resilience—not just as philanthropists and impact investors but as a species.
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Business
The Social Innovation Imperative
The Social Innovation Imperative outlines a business approach that takes into consideration the difference between innovating for profit and innovating for social good.
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Socially Responsible Business
Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value
Leveraging Corporate Responsibility explores stakeholders' impact in order to help companies fully realize the potential of their corporate responsibility initiatives.
Foundations
Tracking the Field of Environmental Philanthropy
Highlights from a newly released environmental philanthropy report.
Environment
Shrinking Your Plastic Footprint
Getting companies to reduce their use of plastic is the focus of the Plastic Disclosure Project.
Economic Development
An Agricultural Peace Dividend
In northern Uganda, home to one of Africa’s longest and most brutal civil conflicts, organic farming is producing economic growth and stability.
Economic Development
Community Empowerment
Emory and Chris Rose are members of a multi-issue nonprofit—SOCM—that tackles health, employment, and environmental issues in the isolated and often struggling coalfield communities of Tennessee.
Urban Development
Space: The Social Change Frontier
Exploring open spaces, parks, gardens, and trails as tools for social impact.