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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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How to Create Exciting Social and Digital Content for Unsexy, Boring and Regulated Industries

Pam Moore

Content tips and tricks – actionable strategies to create engaging and profitable content on a tight budget. Some of our favorite tools and technology that make ALL of the above easier and more profitable. Marketers working in manufacturing. Non-profits. Register for the webinar now! . Real estate brokers.

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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

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Newsletter: Sponsorship Advice from a Dragster Driver ; Stacy’s Pita Chips Launches Cause-Related QR Codes on Bags?; Small Businesses are the New Cause Marketing Partners

Selfish Giving

What is the best tactic to introduce our non-profit and the opportunity to potential sponsors? Industry Overviews : Online Grocery Sales, Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC [Open Access for 24 Hours] 4. Will you be joining us? We've gotten some great questions so far. They include: Q. Down Syndrome Association Q.

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Content Marketing for Regulated, Boring and Unsexy Industries

Pam Moore

Content tips and tricks – actionable strategies to create engaging and profitable content on a tight budget. Some of our favorite tools and technology that make ALL of the above easier and more profitable. Marketers working in manufacturing. Non-profits. Register for the webinar now! . Real estate brokers.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e. These circularity principles can be applied across sectors.

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What Did California Miss with Its Recent Slashing of a Key Solar Incentive?

NonProfit Quarterly

Customer-owned energy generation also reduces utilities’ potential to invest in more profit-generating infrastructure, like long-distance transmission power lines. And it obscures the real motive—securing utilities’ profits as they make a return on their investment in utility-owned clean energy.