The best social innovations can get stalled in the ideas-phase without funds to get started. In this series social entrepreneurs discuss fundraising: the strategies, pitfalls and sweat spent on the way to getting backing and raising money. Michael Gray is an associate for ...
One of the key questions in the social sector is: What kind of financing is needed to help build great organizations, i.e. organizations that genuinely succeed in solving problems and improve as they expand? George Overholser, the founder and managing director of Nonprofit ...
Oso Martin, founder of the Portland, OR-based recycling collective Free Geek, combines three problems and comes up with a solution. “Some people have too many computers; others don’t have enough,” he told us. “And there is a glut of computers going to landfills. ...
I swung by the 92Y Tribeca here in New York Tuesday evening for a cool book event: Nancy Lublin, author of the new book Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business, in conversation with the Economist's Matthew Bishop, of Philanthrocapitalism fame. Lublin founded ...
Kristin Ivie, social innovation program manager for the Case Foundation, recently put together a helpful list of seven tips for changemakers and idealists at Social Citizens. There's one suggestion, however—in tip #2—that I must disagree with: that changemakers should spend 95% of their ...
In coverage of social innovation, entrepreneurs get most of the play. But intrapreneurs—employees who innovate within organizations—are key drivers of change, too. With this in mind, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) launched a program earlier this year to help women become effective ...
Social innovators can learn from each others' successes and failures. That's the idea behind Dowser's Mini Case Studies, real-world stories showing how changemakers confront practical challenges. From time to time, we'll add to the mix great studies from around the web. Here's one ...
How do you feel when you see a promising idea that's going nowhere? If you're like Scott Belsky, the founder of Behance Network, a popular online platform for creative professionals to share their work, you get very restless. Belsky spent six years studying ...
Shortly after Gerald Chertavian landed a banking job on Wall Street in the late 1980s, he became a Big Brother to David Heredia, a ten-year old who lived in a low-income housing project in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Chertavian was moved by David’s ...
Growing up in the San Diego suburb of University City, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus felt like a second backyard. As a kid, the main perks of my proximity were the University’s big grassy fields, open basketball courts, and, of ...