Creating A Platform For Change In 48 Hours
Wonderful post by psgive on getting a movement or groundswell underway with little budget and time:
Social entrepreneur (and close friend of psGive) Tom Dawkins shares his experiences with Social 48, a startup weekend-style event where socially-inspired entrepreneurs join heads to create a brand new company in a single weekend.
We’d love to see more events like this pop up over here in the states!
http://tomjd.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/how-fast-can-you-make-a-difference/
Do you agree with Tom, or do you think platforms for change take time to develop?
Source: psgive
4 Ways To Use Pinterest To Encourage Corporate Volunteerism
Need more reasons to start “pinning” your corporate social responsibility initiatives? This post has a good set of thought-starters to make your organization pinworthy.
Why ‘Slacktivists’ Are More Active Than You Think
Great graphic!
6 Companies That Are Growing Rapidly While Doing Good
We agree x1000: You don’t have to make a choice between making money or making a difference. Just follow the model of these rock stars of the new economy.
Inside Red Cross Social Media Command Center
A long read but a great look at how one of the world’s biggest nonprofits is structuring to handle social business. Taking its cues from what looks a lot like Gatorade’s command center, the organization is investing in resources and time to monitor and adapt to what’s happening in real-time.
Everything we do ripples through our network. If you feel better because you did a good deed, this will have a positive effect on your friends, your friends’ friends, and even your friends’ friends’ friends. Your own positive change can affect hundreds of people. And who wouldn’t want to make his/her corner of the vast human social network a better place?
(via poptech)
Source: fastcoexist.com
At online marketplace for $5 tasks, proceeds get donated to charity
via Springwise, Canadian Raise5, a site that looks much like Israeli Fiverr in that it’s an online marketplace for 5 dollar tasks. The difference? Instead of benefiting those performing the tasks, the funds paid get donated to charity.
via thenextweb:
Simplee launched Headaches & Hangovers, which is both a brilliant marketing idea and a genuine way of making the SXSW Interactive experience that much better for participants. It’s a free medical street team (the Simplee Squad), so if you find your self dehydrated in the Texas heat, hungry when all the places to eat are packed or simply hungover, the Simplee Squad of nursing and pre-med students are qualified to get you out of your funk. (via Headaches & Hangovers: Brilliant SXSW Marketing)
Source: thenextweb.com
Gates Foundation Teams With Adland to Fund Ideas
This is great news: Bill and Melinda Gates have teamed up with Cannes Lions to fund great philanthropic communications ideas.
Up to 10 participants will be awarded $100,000 for the development of their ideas, with successful projects then having the chance to apply for additional funding of up to $1 million to bring their ideas to fruition.
