Category: Weekend Reading

Muhammad Yunus, An Example of Drucker’s Principles

Weekend reading from Business Week on Muhammad Yunus’ new book: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the concept of microcredit—providing the poorest of the poor with tiny loans to start their own moneymaking ventures—is promoting a new idea these days. He calls it “social business,” and in his just-released book, Creating a World… Continue reading Muhammad Yunus, An Example of Drucker’s Principles

Cellphone Recycling

I’ve written about cell phone recycling in the past so I felt it relevant to link to this lengthy New York Times Magazine article from last week on cell phone recycling. Some interesting companies mentioned in the article include: GreenPhone, Collective Good, and Recellular.

Multinationals Fight Climate Change

Here’s an interesting little initiative that I just read about in the New York Times– it’s called the Carbon Disclosure Project and it involved 11 multinational corporations trying to address the issue of climate change: The companies in the program, called the Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, include giants in their sectors like Cadbury Schweppes, Dell,… Continue reading Multinationals Fight Climate Change

Charity Gift Cards

The idea of charity gift cards has been around for a while but a major hurdle was the lack of legitimacy with regards to the authenticity of several of the outlets that are dabbling in this space. This New York Times article sheds some more light into charity gift cards and names a few of… Continue reading Charity Gift Cards

Revisiting The Mosquito Net Distribution Issue

Here’s Businessweek‘s summary of the distribution issue in Africa: The slow pace of progress has unleashed an ideologically charged battle over the best way to disseminate the life-saving nets. On one side are people who say that bed nets should be given away for free by governments and nonprofits to reach the maximum number of… Continue reading Revisiting The Mosquito Net Distribution Issue

Christmas Links

Merry Christmas! Here’s a roundup of links from the past week. OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per… Continue reading Christmas Links

Interesting stat of the day– World Bank: US No Longer Top Donor

Saw this on digg.com: Yesterday, the World Bank reported that the US has lost its status as the largest donor to the Bank’s main fund for poor countries, as Britain secured a record amount of aid with a pledge of increased funding. Britain pledged $4.2 billion for the period from July 2008 through June 2011,… Continue reading Interesting stat of the day– World Bank: US No Longer Top Donor

Building Donations Into The Price Of Consumer Products

Here’s a theme we’ve written about extensively on this blog– Increasingly, nonprofit experts are beginning to question one of the fastest-growing sectors of giving, the practice of building a donation into the purchase of items as varied as fine jewelry and Always feminine products. The same questions are asked and no one really has any… Continue reading Building Donations Into The Price Of Consumer Products