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- Corporate/CSR, Foundation Strategy
Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
- Collective Impact, Corporate/CSR, Economic Development, Foundation Strategy
Leveraging Historic Federal Investment: Roles for Communities, Companies, and Funders
How three key groups of stakeholders can help realize the potential of federal investment in a new wave of…
Strategic Evaluation: Where do we go from here?
August 8, 2011I was recently talking about my experience as an evaluator with a group of students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Se…
Where is the Prius of DVRs?
June 30, 2011The DVR is a fantastic invention. I’ll admit that I have three DVRs in my house and they have transformed how and when my family watches TV. Imagine my alarm w…
CSV vs. Sustainability: The Debate Continues
June 10, 2011…it has always been our intention to be more than a corporation that makes mortgage loans; we wanted to be a force in making positive differences in people’s l…
Lifting the Veil…to See Your Own Face
April 6, 2011Why do companies say they are responsible, but then act differently? Is it lip service, green washing, and double-speak? Or does this happen for a different re…
Deal or No Deal?
March 29, 2011A newly minted – and controversial – agreement has been reached between the UK government and 170 large companies to promote public health. Whether it eventual…
Handsome Is as Handsome Does
March 16, 2011Last week, Corporate Responsibility magazine released its list of the top 100 best corporate citizens. The companies on the list issued dozens of press release…
CSR vs. CSV – What’s the difference?
February 18, 2011In response to the recent Harvard Business Review article on Creating Shared Value I wrote with Michael Porter, I’ve received questions about the relationship …
On Attitudes to Business
February 7, 2011An article in last week’s Economist spotlights a recent survey conducted by global public relations firm, Edelman, that looks at differing attitudes to compani…
Leveling Up: Socially Responsible Digital Media
January 10, 2011This week, with business news abuzz about the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, The Wall Street Journal reported that video game company Nintendo is on the defen…
Biotech and Global Health
January 3, 2011The scarcity of R&D for the developing world is not a new problem. It has been 50 years since we had a new TB drug – because the issue has been addressed in th…