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Free Stock Photos for your Nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Get thousands of free stock photos for your nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise. We’ve compiled a list of free breathtaking stock photos for nonprofit organizations, NGO’s and Social Enterprises which you can use right away for your website, mailing list, social media or other online and offline activities.

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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. With the help of our late friend, Bruce Herman , a dozen Windows workers traveled to Italy to learn how to manage a successful worker cooperative restaurant.

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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. The Investment Mirage.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without access, these communities become isolated and, as a result, experience reduced economic, educational, and social opportunities. World Bicycle Relief (WBR), a nonprofit social enterprise (where the other two authors of this article work) helps to solve that challenge by distributing bicycles to individuals like the three women above.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest. Webb Family Foundation.

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Co-ops and Solidarity: Reflections from Barcelona

NonProfit Quarterly

Citizen campaigns and occupations like that of Can Battló —a former Barcelona textile factory—reclaimed public and private spaces and repurposed them into social centers. Neighborhood assemblies held in these spaces articulated the community’s most pressing needs and organized cooperatives.