Philanthropy
Combatting Burnout in Nonprofit Leaders
Supporting the personal well-being of nonprofit leaders is critical to the success of effective organizations, and grantmakers can help.
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Nonprofits
The Advent of Zen Marketing
Nonprofit communication strategies need to stop pushing and pulling, and be present.
Human Rights
Applied “Womenomics”
How Goldman Sachs deployed a far-reaching, data-driven strategy to further the cause of women’s entrepreneurship. Includes magazine extras.
Social Entrepreneurship
What I Think About When I Think About Running
Haruki Murakami uses running as a metaphor to describe his journey as a novelist, but the metaphor works equally well for social innovation.
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Advocacy
The Science Behind Compassion
Dr. James Doty highlights our "compassion deficit" and the need to recognize the societal and individual benefits of altruism.
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Collaboration
Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
Deepening Community explores four aspects of creating a meaningful community in a modern world.
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Business
Centered Leadership: Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Impact
Through stories, tools, and exercises, Centered Leadership outlines an approach for becoming an effective leader, an approach developed and utilized at McKinsey.
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Technology & Design
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Rejecting the instinct to do everything, Essentialism investigates the idea of doing "less, but better."
Global Issues
From Service Learning to Learning Service
Personal development and global development are intrinsically linked, but our current service-learning model might need flipping on its head.
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Global Issues
The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World
The Purpose Economy describes how a new type of economy is taking shape, one that will emphasize serving the people.