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ESG Needs a Shared Language

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused. Helping tap into new markets and customers.

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The Colors Co-op Experiment: Learning the Right Lessons from Our Failure

NonProfit Quarterly

While ROC has always been a nonprofit organization, its signature restaurant, Colors, was an LLC, created as a co-op and run by former Windows on the World workers. This bleak labor market made it hard for Windows on the World’s survivors to find new employment. With assistance from their local union, surviving workers did not give up.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We will share our experience, and those of our peers, to argue that this funding ecosystem needs to be reimagined to truly support social entrepreneurs and collectively address the global problems they are tackling. The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin.

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4 Best Professional Development Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit organizations are often pressed to do more with less. Your staff is expected to be more efficient, your organization more productive, and your mission more manageable all while your piggy bank is light. Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. .

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico.

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What will happen in philanthropy this year?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Lucy describes how 2010 will be another tough year for nonprofits - but likely a growth year for alternatively structured organizations that pursue the common good - like L3cs and B Corporations. Nonprofits no longer have the corner on social good. Some fascinating trends she highlighted were: 1.

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3 challenges freelancers face, and 3 of the best freelancing tools

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Whether you are a designer or writer, you need to learn how to manage your time, which is where most freelancers go wrong. These include: Time management. However, self-employment comes with challenges, especially in time management. governments has revealed 2,500 scams centered on the Coronavirus.