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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. This particular advertisement included a list of reasons why Cafritz homes were so popular.

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation Review

hour, looking at some of the worst things imaginable to decide whether they violated Facebook’s content policies. Content moderators like Daniel, are social media’s essential workers. Simply put—there is no social media without content moderation. He would spend nine hours a day, for a wage of roughly $1.50/hour,

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25 Must-Know Global Trends in Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. 2) The rise in online giving is directly correlated to the rise in social media. 15% say Twitter. 10% say Instagram. 4%), Tumblr (.4%),

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The Robin Hood Interviews: Selling Soap and Good Causes

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Then they gave me another account, which was public broadcasting. This was the first time public broadcasting had hired an advertising agency to build audience. He then founded his own public-relations firm with Jack Porter in Washington, D.C. Then there is private policy change, though corporations and organizations.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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The Future of Journalism: A Conversation with Monika Bauerlein of Mother Jones

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only are we a part of that industry, but it is an industry that is changing rapidly—and the implications of those changes are significant for journalism, the social justice fields we cover, and the future of democracy. Advertising isn’t going to. Advertising is under tremendous pressure. That said, there have been shifts.