When people talk about “marketing” in the nonprofit sector, the word is usually interchangeable with “fundraising” or “development”. They’re talking about the marketing that goes towards generating the financial resources necessary to produce a nonprofit’s services. There are a lot of organizations and individuals that have gotten very good at this type of marketing. One [...]
I have long believed in the power of market forces and the need for social sector participants to adopt proven practices from the business community for the purpose of achieving impact at an exponentially greater scale. Dan Pallotta’s Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential was a revelation for me. My head bobbed nonstop in [...]
Last month, Nathalie McDermott, Director of On Road Media, a social media training social enterprise, left an insightful comment on my post about the danger of promoting the mythology of the social entrepreneur. Over the past 5 years, at gatherings and conferences etc., I have witnessed a new breed of professional “Social Entrepreneur” who is usually well-educated, well-spoken [...]
Last week, David once again stirred the pot around the concept of “micro,” raising some good questions about the efficacy of micro interventions and whether much-hyped new platforms such as The Extraordinaries might actually do damage to the sector by emphasizing the easy over the impactful. David’s main concern is these micro actions may sound appealing, but in [...]
Last year, I read an article about a new social enterprise in the UK: a casino where the profits are used to fight gambling addiction. Yes, you’re reading that right—and it does actually exist. Caesars Palace is a part of Hospitality & Grow‘s £6m seafront complex in Great Yarmouth, where the long-term unemployed will receive jobs and training and profits will [...]
The Skoll Foundation, via its Social Edge website, just released a Social Entrepreneur Search Widget to help funders, bloggers, supporters, and peers find and connect with social entrepreneurs who have been vetted by leading awards programs including Skoll, Civic Ventures, Draper Richards, PopTech, and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The widget is slick, [...]
Over three billion people—almost half the world’s population—live on less than $2.50 per day. Nearly one billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. Even in the United States, more than three million people experience the indignity and desperation of homelessness each year and nineteen percent of children are living in households below [...]
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