Hello, Millennial? It’s Me, the Company Trying to Hire You
It’s tough getting the attention of Millennials these days. The best of them are mesmerized by the Googles and Facebooks and dazzling upstarts of the world, and of course why wouldn’t they be? Preeminent global giants and small but hot groundbreakers that are...
Dear Investment Banker
Dear Investment Banker, If you knew the secret of one more condition to set for your pre-IPO client that could lead to financial success for the client, would you advise on it? Your clients hope so. So I am going to let the cat out of the bag. Look at each client’s...
4 Ways Your Employees’ Cell Phones Help Them Volunteer
Pssst...did you know your employees are talking about you online? According to a Weber Shandwick study, 50 percent of employees post messages, pictures or videos in social media about their employer, part of a growing movement of employee activism that is opening up...
The Greenest and Most Philanthropic Super Bowl Ever
The Super Bowl is one of the great unifiers in this country, a de facto national holiday that brings together more than 110 million people to rally around a shared spectacle. But this Sunday, Super Bowl 50 promises to offer much more than just a football game. Because...
Indigenous Artisans And The Ethical Business of Fashion
Scott Leonard is the co-founder and CEO of Indigenous Designs, a fashion company specializing in fair trade and organic apparel. They sell direct to consumer, but also white label their apparel to major brands such as Eileen Fisher. Their model is to alleviate poverty...
Imagining Sustainability in 2030: Smart Farms to Super Batteries
Sure, 2014 saw its share of forward-thinking business investments and new, collaborative models in sustainability fields ranging from advanced agriculture to renewable energy. The year ahead, too, is already shaping up to be momentous for technologies, new business...
How-To Snag A Social Justice Job Interview
Are you a social sector job-seeker? Feeling frozen out of your future change-the-world job? Reluctant to enter the fray? Fear of failure stopping you from a career as a social entrepreneur? Café Impact's latest executive leadership video, How-To Snag A Social Justice...
How Social Media Campaigns Like #GreatDoingGood Jump-Start Community Impact
Last Fall, social innovation went to Geneva to attend the global prom. That’s how I looked at The Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum (SIGEF), an international event organized by Horyou that brought together nonprofits, renowned speakers, social entrepreneurs...
At Davos, Will World Leaders Support the Key to Community Impact?
As global leaders prepare to gather at the 46th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, I've been musing on the topic of their forthcoming discussion: Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The premise of this anointed age is...
‘A Day On, Not a Day Off’: Celebrating MLK Day Through Service
Amidst the increased attention on the subject of racial justice this past year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an opportunity to reflect on our progress with civil rights in this country - and consider how far we have yet to go. As the King Center notes, “We...
When You Don’t Know How To Be Disruptive
The old proverb about how to feed a man for a lifetime has us teaching him to fish. Matthew Manos thinks teaching also works for changing the world. The Founder and Managing Director of design-strategy consultancy VeryNice, Manos is a social entrepreneur par...
Revolutionizing Community Service Ideas Around Digital and Financial Literacy
The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully slow recovery have housing prices begun to stabilize and the unemployment rate steadily fallen. But while the economic crisis has abated, it remains a...
Corporate Giving is on Fire, Says New Report
America’s Charities much-anticipated annual report on employee giving and volunteering was released this month, and as I discussed recently, it’s packed with interesting data about the increasing role of corporate philanthropy in the workplace. The report, Snapshot...
What’s So Wrong About Giving Away $45 Billion?
By now, you’ve seen the earth-shaking philanthropy headlines. After the birth of their daughter, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced that they’ll donate 99 percent of their Facebook stock to philanthropic causes over the course of their lifetimes....
When Your Pro Bono Offer Is Turned Down
Pro bono service has experienced such an explosion of popularity in the last few years that it’s now the fastest growing employee engagement program. But is skills-based volunteering one of those gifts that givers like to offer more than recipients want to accept?...
A Sea Change in Employee Giving and Volunteering, New Report Finds
In the past three years, America’s Charities has been releasing the country’s most incisive and comprehensive series of reports on trends in employee volunteering and giving. This year’s much-anticipated report was just released, and it’s packed with encouraging -...
International Volunteer Day Highlights the Power of Corporate Philanthropy
Amidst the consumerism that tends to envelop us during the holidays, December has also become a time when we’re asked to consider the importance of donating our time, talent and treasure to the betterment of the world. #GivingTuesday, a recently instituted global day...