Yue (Jen) Shang, a native of Beijing, studied for her Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, where she will soon join the faculty and help teach fund raisers and other nonprofit officials about donor behavior and other topics.
Mobile Accord, a mobile technology
provider to NPOs, is launching mGive.com, a service that enables NPOs to launch text message donation campaigns. They have (per a personal communication from their CEO, James Eberhard), "worked with The ASPCA, Amnesty
International, Alicia Key’s organization- Keep a Child Alive, and many
others to raise thousands of dollars in donations." Jim adds:
During this year’s SuperBowl, Mobile Accord worked with the United Way to launch a commercial proving out the concept of mobile donations with stellar success. You can view the SuperBowl commercial here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38idebP4ag
Jim, as CEO of Mobile Accord, asks for feedback from Gifthub readers. Feel free to leave a comment below.
This Thursday beginning at 11:30 a.m., the Bradley Center will host Stanford University's WILLIAM DAMON, along with Corporation for National and Community Service CEO DAVID EISNER; SHIRLEY SAGAWA, a primary architect of President Clinton's national service program, now with the consulting firm sagawa/jospin; and JOE STASZAK-RODRIGUEZ of City Year Greater Philadelphia to discuss national service's role in preventing "failure to launch" among our nation's youth. Copies of Damon's recent book The Path to Purpose will be available for purchase.
Established in 1987, SustainAbility advises clients on the risks and opportunities associated with corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Working at the interface between market forces and societal expectations, we seek solutions to social and environmental challenges that deliver long term value. We understand business and what society expects of it.
Recently published by Sustainability:
The Social Intrapreneurs: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers (2008)
Produced in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, Allianz and IDEO, SustainAbility’s latest publication spotlights this new breed of leaders, drawing on wide-ranging research and interviews within twenty leading global businesses.
I find it touching and heartening that the ills of capitalism will finally be addressed and solved by intrapreneurs working within the Fortune 100. This means that the rest of us can pretty well stand down. No need for a revolution. No need for organizing. No need for regulation. No need for solutions external to the markets. Sustainability? Social justice? The future of the planet? The Fortune 100 have got it handled. All praise to the powers that be.
The Executive Summary of the Report above ends with 10 bland tips for intrapreneurs, or "corporate changemakers," working within the company's firewall. I would add an 11th tip: "Don't make waves." When corporate realities and social benefit collide, I would add as tip 12, "Look at your paycheck and remember what happens to those who get sideways with corporate profits."
It is not as Fortune 100 corporate intrapreneurs but as citizens that we are free spirits and dangerous ones at that. Sure, work within the firewall, get paid to compromise, and seek a little of this and a little of that, but, as a citizen, do not limit your thinking to what is "in line with the company's goals and objectives."
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." So said a pre-corporate intrapreneur whose career ended badly. He might have done better if he stuck to his other saying, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are Gods." Replace God with "Employer" and you will make the right decisions instinctively. Sustaining the planet is good; but meanwhile, let's stay employed and out of trouble with she who rules us all in Wealth Bondage, where I served as Corporate Intrapreneur Grade 12, until I got fired for reading the Sermon on the Mount on company time. "Theft of company resources," they called it. I stole the time to read the gospels, and it came back to haunt me.
Development Crossing "brings together individuals and organizations to network, discuss, and share ideas around corporate social responsibility and international development. Register for free to become a Member and get involved now! .... Development Crossing is fully funded by its founders and has no affiliation to any corporations or organizations."
Upcoming at Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Wednesday, June 4, 2008:
TOO OFTEN ideas are discounted as the effete playthings of the chattering classes, yet they have the power to transform our nation’s institutions, from our courts and legislatures to marriage and family life. Since 1998, Encounter Books has aimed to broaden public debate by bringing many new voices to bear on important policy and cultural issues.
On June 4, Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal will hold its fourth annual Bradley Symposium, co-sponsored by Encounter Books, on the themes of the power of ideas, publishing, and preserving liberty and democracy. Three panels will draw from prepared essays and feature seven prominent Encounter authors:
Roger Kimball
Robert Bork
Andrew McCarthy
John O'Sullivan
John Fonte
James Piereson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Raising Change: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference, July 25-26, 2008, San Francisco , CA
Alison Fine's Social Citizens Discussion Paper is up on the Case Foundation site. Will Millennials become true social citizens, or will they settle for cocoons and cliques? I do enjoy the company of many of that generation on line and off. My sense is that they are still finding their own shared consciousness as they assimilate what comes with maturity - job, voting, marriage, finance. They see through things wonderfully, but whether they see a way forward, probably not, none of us do.
Phil Cubeta, Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families
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