By Kyle Westaway Based on in-depth interviews with founders, Profit & Purpose profiles a number of the most successful pioneers in social entrepreneurship, telling the stories of thirteen social enterprises ranging from non-profits like...
The fall 2014 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review features a number of articles on mission-driven for-profit companies. The Case Study, “From Petitions to Decisions,” examines Change.org, which has been profitable since 2010. It boosts more than 70 million registered users and is signing up new ones at the rate of 4 million per month. The company has ambitious plans to move beyond petitions to become a platform for a new sort of digital democracy.
As the print version of the Nonprofit Quarterly prepares its upcoming issue on hybrid organizations, this edition of the Cohen Report looks at some questions raised by a few of the newer organizational forms of social enterprise.
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After Change.org placed petitions at the center of its platform, the size of its membership soared. But operating a high-volume petition site isn’t enough for its leaders. Includes magazine extras.
This essay attempts to show how a growing number of people from many places might connect around a common cause. This focuses on Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC strategies for making mentor-rich programs more available to youth in poverty neighborhoods of Chicago and other cities.
“It’s not about doing more earlier. It’s not about teaching them to read or write earlier and earlier. It’s actually about making sure they’ve got some of the underpinning skills on which so much of the rest of their life is going to be based."
Ashoka supports a number of fellows whose work revolves around giving children the right to play, such as Darrell Hammond of KaBOOM! and Jill Vialet of Playworks. As the article points out, play is one often underestimated way of teaching the changemaking skills such as creativity, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership that we need for the future.
Ashoka supports a number of fellows whose work revolves around giving children the right to play, such as Darrell Hammond of KaBOOM! and Jill Vialet of Playworks. As the article points out, play is one often underestimated way of teaching the changemaking skills such as creativity, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership that we need for the future.
You may have heard of the Dual Bottom Line: the idea that strategic choices must serve both mission impact and financial viability. But how do you turn this idea into a quantitative decision-making tool? Blue Avocado columnist Steve Zimmerman summarizes the Matrix Map approach in this article adapted from the book he co-wrote with Jeanne Bell and Jan Masaoka, Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Choices for Financial Viability.
How to be more innovative? Some advice from the experts on how to design your personal innovation roadmap -- in three steps. Slides from a keynote presentati...
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