A Career Guide For a New Generation of Change Makers

Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s new book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community in a Changing World , is a career guide for the generation that finds themselves on the precipice of some pretty monumental global challenges.

Reader Question: How to Find Major Donors

Last month I launched a new regular series on the blog called Reader Questions . I receive so many great questions from readers that I decided that at least once a month I would pick a reader’s question to answer. It can be about anything related to nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, boards, financing, fundraising, social innovation, philanthropy, you name it

Innovation in the Arts: An Interview with Karina Mangu-Ward
In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Karina Mangu-Ward. Karina is the Director of Activating Innovation at EmcArts a social enterprise for innovation and adaptive change across ... Is Earned Income Right for Your Nonprofit?
Earned income, or the sale of goods and services, is a somewhat misunderstood and unexplored financial opportunity for nonprofits. Yet there are countless examples of nonprofit organizations that sell goods ... The Fundamental Building Blocks of Social Change
There is no shortage of great ideas to change the world. I get countless emails and calls each week from passionate, committed people who see a need in their community, ... Tools to Build a Stronger Nonprofit Sector
A little over a year ago I started introducing tools on the Social Velocity web site to help nonprofits, who might not be able to afford consulting services, grow their ... Financing not Fundraising: How to Rebut Crazy Donor Demands
One of the biggest challenges the nonprofit sector faces is the sometimes dysfunctional relationship between nonprofits and their donors. I’ve talked before about how nonprofits should stop lying to their ... How to Raise Money to Strengthen Your Nonprofit
There is a revolutionary concept that could dramatically transform the nonprofit sector, if only every nonprofit leader knew about it: capacity capital. Capacity capital is the money nonprofits so desperately ... Social Media for Social Change: An Interview with David Neff
In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with David Neff, the creator and CEO of Lights. Camera. Help., a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging cause-driven organizations to use ... 10 Great Social Innovation Reads: March 2012
March, perhaps because it included SXSW Interactive, seemed to be largely about the use of new media to tell social change stories. There are an increasing number of ways and ...
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