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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Purpose is an organization’s aspirational reason for being, beyond profits alone. CVS is using purpose and a strong sense of its own corporate social responsibility as a “north star” to guide its business strategy — which it brings to life through a cross-functional approach. This isn’t disinterested philanthropy.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. What happens, however, with technology applications that could provide great social benefit but that won’t generate big profits? The typical for-profit incubator has a funnel of startup teams.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Today’s Workforce: Millennials + Boomers = Learning for All

Connection Cafe

Back when I was in school, we always used to call the work world “real life.” ” After school, we would enter “real life,” get a job, get a car, do what grown ups did. But what’s even more cool is that I continue to learn new things every day in this “real life.” ” Shocker!

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Digital Strategies for Community Foundations: COF Knight Digital Media Center Workshop Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It celebrates the natural beauty of the area while educating the community about a green life style. She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer.

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Sectorness: What does "nonprofit" do for us?

ASU Lodestar Center

The term "philanthropy" has been in American parlance for a long time, referring to individual action, charitable behavior, and (more recently) the professional field of grantmaking foundations. The map for American English usage of "philanthropy" is below. Philanthropy" is roughly as common now as it was 200 years ago.

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