Microfinance
Crowdsourcing Microfinance
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
Tag: Volunteering
Innovative programs to attract and manage volunteers
Nonprofit Management
Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
Review
Civil Society
One Nation Under Gods
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell
Philanthropy
Philanthropy’s Buzzwords of the Decade
The 10 phrases I have chosen to show the steady rise in market-based solutions for social problem solving, technology’s infiltration of all things fund raising, and a shift in attention from local to global.
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.
Nonprofit Management
Fired Up To Volunteer
Nonprofits can gain highly skilled volunteers through a variety of resources.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Nonprofit Management: The Art of Organizing Volunteers
How to maintain membership lists without a lot of operations money: Whitcanack on BigTent.
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
If You Need Something, Just Ask
Practical solutions to problems such as how to ask people for help, how to motivate people to ask for help, and what to do after people have refused to help.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Firm Stereotypes Matter
Marketing professor Jennifer Aaker shows how stereotypes can be reframed to influence consumer behavior for nonprofits.
Technology & Design
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.