You're Rich, Now What? 3 Steps To Using IPO Windfalls In Meaningful Ways Finding your own unique way to give back can be one of life's great adventures. You will meet some of the most dedicated, exuberant, brilliant problem-solvers you’ve ever encountered. You will help improve lives and the world. And you will never be the same again.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Hewlett Packard's Corporate Global Vision Hewlett Packard’s Catalyst Initiative is helping kids across the world learn how to solve some of the seemingly most intractable global challenges. Catalyst also demonstrates the problem-solving capabilities of HP technology; expands markets by increasing education rates and wealth; and builds relationships and goodwill with customers.
Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
Charity And Service: Giving Like The Stars You don’t need celebrity status to be a force for good--you, too, can make a difference in many of the same ways actors, athletes, and other high-profile people do. Here's how to get started.
Updated Tue Dec 20, 2011
Arzu Studio Hope Weaves New Paths For Peace And Prosperity In Afghanistan Afghanistan is officially the worst place in the world for women. Arzu Studio Hope, an artisanal rug manufacturer that employs more than 1,000 women, aims to change that by offering women viable professional opportunities, as well as health care and community support.
Updated Fri Nov 11, 2011
"After The Parade" Helps Returning NYC Vets Long After The Welcome-Home Banner Passes Did you know there are more unemployed vets in New York City than there are yellow cabs? A new public-awareness campaign, "After The Parade," highlights the unique problems--unemployment, PTSD, homelessness, even suicide--faced by veterans returning to the city by appealing to New Yorkers' everyday experiences.
Updated Mon Nov 7, 2011
Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee And The Roles Of Women In War And Peace In Women, War & Peace, we see the central role that women play in times of war, not only in Liberia but also in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
Updated Sat Oct 22, 2011
Investing In Leadership To Advance Capitalism And The World The greatest impact companies can have in advancing regional and global education, healthcare, the environment, and economic development to strengthen their own business prospects is by training and placing executives on NGO/nonprofit boards through a thoughtful, purposeful process.
Updated Tue Oct 18, 2011
Vote Now To Strengthen Nonprofits Launched in 2006, Partners in Preservation (PIP) is a program in which American Express, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has awarded $5.5 million over a five-year period toward preserving 56 historic places throughout the United States.
Updated Thu Oct 6, 2011
What "Moneyball" Has To Teach Boards Of Directors Only 618 board seats out of a universe of 35,505 board seats are occupied by people under 40. Maybe one day Michael Lewis will write a book about the year that boards finally engaged young people with fresh perspectives. Perhaps he'll be able to say that that's also when companies increased shareholder value.
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
Chelsea Clinton And IAC: While Some Companies Argue About Women On Boards, IAC Just Does It While others debate whether boards should have one woman or two or three, whether quotas should be mandated, and where on earth to find a woman who has adequate experience or intellect, IAC/InterActiveCorp did something bold, electing elected two women directors who will each contribute unique value to the IAC board: Chelsea Clinton and Sonali de Rycker.
Updated Mon Oct 3, 2011
Helping Foster Digital Learning: What's In It For Business Self-interest is the fundamental driver for investors in the "saving the world" business. Companies want to help educate people because educated people will get jobs, make money, and buy products. New ideas about how to make that happen emerged recently at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York.
Updated Tue Sep 27, 2011
Living And Working To 100 Updated Tue Sep 20, 2011
Investing In Girls For Major Economic Growth In Developing Countries How do you add U.S.$3.4 billion to Kenya’s gross income every year? According to The World Bank, this could be achieved if all 1.6 million adolescent girls in Kenya completed secondary school and the 220,098 adolescent mothers were employed instead of falling pregnant early.
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
So You Want To Serve on a Nonprofit Board Without Giving Money or Fundraising
“They should want me for my expertise, not my checkbook,” is the perspective I hear from some people interested in serving on nonprofit boards. So what’s the real story here? What exactly do nonprofits need and want from you? Are they just after your money?
Updated Wed Sep 14, 2011
Impact Investing: Getting Financial Returns While Building A Better World Imagine trillions of private sector dollars pouring into healthcare, affordable housing, education, agriculture, distributed utilities, and restructured social spending in emerging markets and here in the U.S. No, not in the form of charity; rather, in the form of "impact investing."
Updated Wed Sep 7, 2011
Swimsuit Maker Vilebrequin Wants To Keep Our Beaches Clean A cynic might say that bathing suit manufacturer Vilebrequin has a self interest in clean beaches and the vital aquatic life it holds, as evidenced by its recent partnership with Fabien Cousteau's Plant A Fish organization. And frankly, that's great news for those of us who believe that corporate social responsibility has to be good for business as well as the community.
Updated Thu Aug 25, 2011
If You Need Strong New Nonprofit Board Members, Address Internal Housekeeping First You can’t attract, recruit, and retain nonprofit board members and leaders that you want and need without important strategic work and the commitment and will to change.
Updated Mon Aug 22, 2011
How Management Consultants Can Build A Better World More and more, nonprofit philanthropists, such as Pierre M. Omidyar and Peter B. Lewis are providing management consulting services to their grantees in order to increase their organizational effectiveness.
Updated Mon Aug 1, 2011
Ten Things You Need To Know To Raise Capital For Your Nonprofit First order of business: find a generous and strategic board chair and a high functioning board.
Updated Wed Jul 27, 2011
Business, CSR And Nonprofit Leaders: What They're Reading This Summer Every several months, I crowdsource book recommendations from my friends and colleagues and share them here with my readers.
Updated Fri Jun 17, 2011
