Philanthropy & Funding
Most Messages Fail. Send Ones That Work.
Many nonprofits send out scores of “updates” and other messages that are really just thinly disguised pitches for money.
Tag: Marketing & Communication
Technology & Design
From the Lab to the Land: Disseminating Technologies for the Poor
Collaboration across sectors supports the scaling up of product dissemination and an organizations’ goals of improving the lives of low-income citizens.
Social Entrepreneurship
Better Vision for the Poor
Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people who need them. Why haven’t any of the organizations succeeded on a large scale?
Civic Engagement
Slacktivism, the Gateway to Change?
Two points of Slacktivism: 1) organizations create and endorse the level to which people take action 2) “slacker activism” is a gateway to lasting change.
Nonprofits
Combining Warmth and Competence
People tend to perceive organizations as being either warm or competent, not both—and they are much more likely to do business with the competent one.
Socially Responsible Business
Beyond the Purple Berry
Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon
Podcast
Technology
Crowd-Sourcing Disaster Relief
Jeannie Stamberger discuss how to write retweetable messages, how to separate legitimate helpers from posers and how to use social media to prevent loss of life.
Nonprofits
Back to the Future: Will We See a New Generation of Nonprofit Organizations in 2011?
There are new leaders coming into the nonprofit sector with ideas that have the potential to change the way social change happens. It’s time to ask some new questions.
Collaboration
Reflections on Jumo & Need for Co-Creation
If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.
Podcast
Social Innovations
The Role of Social Norms in Energy and Water Conservation
UCLA Professor Noah Goldstein discusses how the power of social norms can been used to promote energy conservation and other prosocial outcomes.