In this Brand Innovator Spotlight, Ron Faris illustrates how brands can thrive in challenge environments by tying into causes their consumers care about and aligning with the right marketing partners.READ»
Wednesday, October 15 2008 was Bog Action Day. Bloggers from all over the world did posts on the subject of poverty. I did one on the working poor. I read many of the posts and found that several dealt with the idea of ...READ»
The Spring Gardens Center is nicer than most hotels, and even homes. But it's actually a $6 million hostel for the homeless built by St. Mungo's, a homeless charity in London. It's a novel idea: Instead of sticking homeless people ...READ»
We spend a lot of time looking at shelters here on FastCompany.com--from pop-up shelters for earthquake relief to the Open Architecture Network's challenge to build shelters with a social component, there is no shortage of designers ...READ»
Churches have long welcomed people in times of need. Recently, however, the law has gotten in the way. In 2008, for example, 22 churches in New York City were asked to stop giving beds to homeless people since they couldn't stay ...READ»
Interpersonal competence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to become interpersonally competent, you need to do three things. First, get to know ...READ»
When you live in a five-sense city like New York, you inevitably grow immune to certain things: the pungent sidewalk smells on the sweatiest of summer days; sirens screaming outside your window every hour of the night; cattle calls ...READ»
Reverend Cecil Williams, of San Francisco's Glide Memorial United Methodist, is on a mission: He's teaching tradition-bound congregations how to stay vital by embracing change.READ»
Jeff Mills is a 35-year-old out-of-work programmer with two masters degrees in Austin, Texas. Since being laid off by Wiley-ValuSource in June 2002, he's been volunteering for SRG -- and sitting on various street corners around the ...READ»
Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ»
From clothes to curtains to carpet to couches to chairs to car seats, fibers are ubiquitous part of design. What you may not know is that fibers are also responsible for the first programmable computer.READ»
He writes, directs, produces, acts, and scores -- Tyler Perry controls an entertainment empire and moneymaking machine that includes the hit show Tyler Perry's House of Payne and movies featuring his alter-ego Madea, a jumbo, ...READ»
Christmas is the Season for giving, loving, and sharing, especially to
those who need it most. One company that knows the very essence of
giving is dealership Brickell Honda in Miami. Today Brickell Honda will be participating in a ...READ»
Two New York architects are using design to address pressing social challenges -- for the homeless, for war refugees, even for public-school kids. Here's their blueprint.READ»
The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy?READ»
