Environmental Sustainability through “Waste to Worth” Vision
Jill Boughton, CEO of Sustainable WasteResources International, discusses environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
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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.
A Sharing Economy Cliffhanger: What Will Governments Do?
Earlier this month, a group backed by companies including Airbnb and Taskrabbit began urging users to petition for changes in regulation—will politicians uphold the rules or loosen them? Or is there is a third option?
Roundtable on Shared Value in Education
Seventeen corporate and global education leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how they are rethinking the role of business in global education.
Squaring Global Poverty with Climate Change
Meeting the energy demands of modern society without destroying the planet will require a new approach to climate and energy issues.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.