Last month, the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint released a study showing that two-thirds of the nonprofit Executive Directors they surveyed were planning on leaving their current job within five years. [...]
Save a Tree! Save a Whale! Save your breath. Today’s consumer is too socially savvy to be impressed by companies who simply write a check to a cause whose mission [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I was in college and who I am now, mostly in relation to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and where I stand on [...]
Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head, but if you talk to him in his language, that [...]
Many of us social bravehearts work in pretty tough countries, countries where it is easy to get frustrated by the magnitude of the problems they face…so I want to share [...]
We’ve all had the “What is social entrepreneurship?” discussion. The topic was even the recent focus of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s cover article. Yet the definitions we apply to social [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. How do you explain something that your listener doesn’t understand? Put it in their own terms. Relate to [...]
Scarcity can be a very nasty thing. People war over scarce resources: oil, water, investment capital. For social entrepreneurs and impact investors, the war is not life-or-death, but it often [...]
Here’s something short and sweet to cure you of your workaholic blues during the recession. These four Ghanian postal workers use the sounds of their machinery to demonstrate how to [...]
It seems like once a year, the famous left-wing comedian John Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, gets angry enough to light a fire under one of his counterparts [...]
Now we have a problem. On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the tiny island nation of Haiti. Just a month and a half later, an 8.8 magnitude [...]
Halle Tecco is the Founder and Executive Director of Yoga Bear, a non-profit providing more opportunities of health and wellness to cancer patients through the practice of yoga. Halle has [...]
Social reality game designer, Jane McGonigal, has been proving to the world for awhile now that video games don’t have to be a waste of time and on March 3rd, [...]
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