Gaming with a Purpose
Serious games tap into the same culture of online friendship from social networking to fuel peer involvement and encourage collaboration around real-world challenges.
Individual Giving Ideas to help individual donors and philanthropists be more effective
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Ephemeral Perpetuity? Transforming Endowments Into Annuities
Funders who insist that organizations build endowments dilute those organizations’ efforts to raise annual operating funds.
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The Social Innovation Imperative
The Social Innovation Imperative outlines a business approach that takes into consideration the difference between innovating for profit and innovating for social good.
Shaking Up the Long Tail
Donors who use cell phones to make donations do more than give, they talk about it.
Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give
Giving circles are powerful ways to transform the world while also transforming participants’ giving.
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A New Take on Tithing
Too often, individuals make decisions about how much money to donate to charitable causes on an ad hoc basis. As a result, many people give less money than they can actually afford.
Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give
Giving circles are powerful ways to transform the world while also transforming participants’ giving.
Crisis Mentality
Why sudden emergencies attract more funds than do chronic conditions, and how nonprofits can change that.
The Emotions of Aid
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
Giving Donors Control
A United Way affiliate has boosted fundraising by breaking the rules.