A Target Analytics study shows that people who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts. “People are asking us all the time why we don’t reduce mailing costs and save paper with online fund-raising, but the simple fact is that people… Continue reading People who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts,
The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship
The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship is a unique program that connects top engineering talent to credible social enterprises driving market-based solutions to development in India. It serves a dual need: matching talented students with worthy social enterprises and increasing awareness of for-profit approaches to development. The Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) fellowship program has… Continue reading The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship
Gleitsman International Activist Award Nomination [Deadline: April 17, 2009]
Deadline: April 17, 2009 The Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change encourages individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of those who have initiated positive social change. We seek those individuals whose vision and courage inspire others to join with them in confronting and challenging injustice. As we begin our search for… Continue reading Gleitsman International Activist Award Nomination [Deadline: April 17, 2009]
JOB: Overseas Fellowships with Atlas Corps
Atlas Service Corps seeks nonprofit leaders from around the world to apply for their 2009-2010 fellowship positions in Washington, DC and Bogota, Colombia. All expenses are paid in this prestigious, fellowship program, including a living stipend, health insurance, visa, travel, training, and a $2,500 end of service award. Applicants must have 3 or more years… Continue reading JOB: Overseas Fellowships with Atlas Corps
Social Investing and the Modern Market- Guest Post
A guest post from Ann Logue, author of Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies. Social Investing and the Modern Market By Ann Logue Social investing is a fine idea: investors get to flex their capitalist muscles to help fund companies that are changing the world while pressing companies that are a little less than perfect to… Continue reading Social Investing and the Modern Market- Guest Post
Standard & Poor’s launched its S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index to track low carbon footprint companies
Standard & Poor’s launched its S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index, designed to measure the performance of large cap U.S. companies operating with a low carbon emissions footprint. The index, which currently has 362 companies gleaned from the S&P 500, are selected using calculations from Trucost Plc, an environmental data gathering organization. Link
The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by Ashoka’s Youth Venture
The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by the Lemelson Foundation, is a competition in which we are calling for ideas and project proposals from young innovators, 12-20 in the North America and Europe, and 12-24 in all other regions, using a new or adapted technology to improve the lives of others. There will be several… Continue reading The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by Ashoka’s Youth Venture
Social entrepreneurs go mainstream
Social entrepreneurs take this economic upheaval to be a blessing, providing a chance for business to transition from an anonymous, complex system to one that is direct and transparent. Read here: http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/61/social-entrepreneurs-mainstream
Ending Soon- The Invent Your World Challenge
The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by The Lemelson Foundation, which seeks the most innovative and creative youths that use technology to create positive change: http://www.inventyourworld.org
Solving a Social Problem, Without Going the Nonprofit Route
The New York Times: D.light, a company cofounded by Sam Goldman, who spent four years in the Peace Corps in Benin before earning a master’s degree in business from Stanford University, is an example. Mr. Goldman started D.light with the mission of replacing millions of kerosene lamps now used in poor, rural parts of the… Continue reading Solving a Social Problem, Without Going the Nonprofit Route