charity ethics
Is Value Village/Savers the Trump Foundation of Second-Hand Stores?
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The expensive dresser you gave Value Village or Savers may bring two cents to charity—if you’re lucky.
medical research
When Nonprofits and For-Profits Get Cozy: Sloan Kettering’s Identity Problem
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Increasingly, Memorial Sloan Kettering, a leading nonprofit cancer research center, has formed close and intertwined relationships with for-profit organizations. Like many of its peers, it has become less concerned about compromising its autonomy.
foundation grantmaking
Nonprofit Media Insiders See Promise for 2019
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Harvard’s Nieman Lab asked “the smartest people in journalism and digital media” for predictions for the coming year. A central theme: the rise of multi-party collaborations.
voter recruitment
Nonprofit and Corporate Voting Campaigns Show Big Signs of Democratic Life
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Corporations and nonprofits work together to encourage employees to vote, and some momentum seems to be building. Has your workplace stepped up?
Nonprofit News
Charity as a Cheap Stunt: Airbnb’s Philanthropic Bid to Buy off New York
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Airbnb donates $10 million to support New York City nonprofits. This couldn’t possibly be prompted by attempts to stave off regulation by the city of New York, could it?
nonprofit for-profit collaboration
What Is Behind the Shift of For-Profit Professionals to the Nonprofit Sector?
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Nonprofits need to continue down the path of understanding that we are the venue for the next stage of our economy, and that includes providing the workplaces of choice. Can we live up to it?
Nonprofit Management
Sesame Street Moves into the Classroom: Is That Good, and for Whom?
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How will new Sesame-branded material influence educators and the children they teach? And will open a Pandora’s box full of other marketable characters?
nonprofit for-profit collaboration
Google Supports Black Girls Code to Promote Tech Workforce Diversity
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The lab at Google’s New York City offices will house Black Girls Code staff members and be the site of student workshops, hack-a-thons, tech panels and parent-daughter events.
food waste
For-Profit and Nonprofit Firms Devise Creative Ways to Reduce Food Waste
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The average American wastes 400 pounds of food a year, costing billions and harming the environment. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to change that.
Nonprofit Management
Appeasing the Impatient Donor: Another Good Reason to Make Society Just?
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We all want to increase our impact, but simple calls for “scale” often ignore the complexities of addressing the root cause of social change. And sometimes, as the late EF Schumacher would remind us, small really is beautiful.