Content tagged with “Philanthropy”
Fighting AIDS as Corporate Policy“We Agree” that Chevron’s campaign to raise awareness about their work fighting HIV/AIDS is good advertising. In fact, it’s similar to the wildly successful approach...
Tags: Philanthropy, HIV/AIDS, Advocacy Strategies Sunday’s New York Times article on Google.org caught my attention. The Times is one of the few daily papers that cover the philanthropic sector, and it does so with the same seriousness it applies to...
Tags: Philanthropy, innovation, Google, Google.org, DotOrg, New York Times, PowerMeter, Google Earth Engine, Google Crisis Response, Resource Finder, SpeaktoTweet What is Impact Investing? Impact investing is profit-seeking investment for social and environmental good. Impact investors want to move beyond “socially responsible investment,” which focuses...
Tags: Philanthropy, Microenterprise, Microlending, sonal shah, jane wales In their rush to gain an end-of-the-year tax deal, federal elected leaders postponed hard choices, and in the process, they denied the government the revenue it needs to respond to unforeseen crises...
Tags: Philanthropy, taxes, Government, tax relief, nonproft, public-private partnerships Big Bucks for Healthcare Reform Advocacy: Worth it?The Atlantic Philanthropies gave the largest grant on record for an advocacy campaign—to Health Care for America Now! to help pass healthcare reform...
Tags: Philanthropy, public health, APEP News, Advocacy Strategies “The best boost for our nation’s civic health is to ensure all children graduate from high school and complete college,” according to the 2010 Civic Health Assessment. Educational attainment is the...
Tags: Education, Philanthropy, civic health, civic engegement, National Conference on Citizenship, NCoC, Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, Corporation for National and Community Service “Social media powers social networks for social change.”
Beth Kanter and Allison Fine offer that thesis in The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. They argue that...
Tags: Philanthropy, Foundations, Social Media, Beth Kanter, Allison Fine, Malcolm Gladwell, social activism, technology Thanks to a decades-long focus on improving access to college, nearly seven in ten Americans today enroll in some form of postsecondary education within two years of leaving high school. That’s a...
Tags: Education, Philanthropy, Graduation Rates, College Dropouts, Grantmakers for Education, GfE, Intel Foundation Oxfam's Climate Change Campaign EvaluationOxfam GB recently piloted new approaches to M&E in their Climate Change Campaign - which works to influence policy and public opinion in support of a...
Tags: Philanthropy, Climate Change, Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy Strategies 
