Fundraising
Five-Digit Giving
How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.
Tag: Marketing & Communication
Nonprofit Management
Scaling Impact
Scaling requires not only fidelity to core processes and programs, but also constant adjustments to local needs and resources.
Nonprofit Management
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
Nonprofits
Why Personal Branding Is the Most Effective Career Tool for Young Professionals
Why it’s important for young professionals to consider personal branding an essential part of their professional development.
Technology & Design
How Our Tools Define “Community”
Many of the tools in the social technology for social impact sector require us to operate a traditional hierarchy and distribution of responsibility, instead of distributing responsibility, and developing in an agile, organic way.
Podcast
Civic Engagement
Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation
Do you identify as an activist, a social entrepreneur, or both? What do they have in common? In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Hayagreeva Rao, explores how the joined hands of activists, or "market rebels," shape markets, and how this promotes or blocks innovation. Rao's lessons are applicable to leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit spheres, marketers, and activists who harness collective action for institutional and social change.
Environment
Sell the Wind
What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.
Environment
What’s Next: Out-Greening Your Neighbor
Nobody wants to be the biggest energy hog on the block.
Philanthropy
Fundraising in Tough Times
Our economy is in bad shape and will only get worse. So what can fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize income?
Essentials of Social Innovation
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.