It’s great to see how big companies such as General Electric are making waves by encouraging people to contribute towards the development of cleaner energy. Through projects such as the Ecomagination Challenge, the company sparks the minds of people who wish to contribute to this development. This year’s challenge will last until September 30, 2010. [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News on July 20th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, entrepreneur, innovation, sharing, start-up, strategies
Following the roll out of real time tracking of foundation grants in support of Haiti, the Foundation Center has quietly launched a new project called Glass Pockets.
With a mission to “bring transparency to the world of philanthropy,” Glass Pockets offers reports on how transparent large, well-known foundations are. These reports rate the foundations across 28 [...]
Filed under: News on February 4th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, innovation, philanthropy, sharing, sustainability, Technology
The earthquake that hit Haiti last Tuesday has prompted an unprecedented flurry of donations that vastly exceeds the amount raised for previous international catastrophes over the same number of days.
Donors have already contributed more than $150 million to major U.S. relief groups for the catastrophe in Haiti. By comparison, such charities had only raised around [...]
Filed under: News on January 19th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: charity, Community, Environment, global, philanthropy, sharing, strategy
With advances in genetic research coming as fast as the papers or blogs can cover them, I’m not surprised to see the breakthrough announced today by researchers in Spain. According to Science Daily, researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have identified certain strains of proteins within a [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Tagged with: biotechnology, collaboration, disease, DNA, gene, genetics, human genome, illness, innovation, mutation, research, science, sharing, Spain
No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
In an effort to get further involved in the growing opensource movement, Microsoft has announced that it will be creating and funding ($1 million annually) the CodePlex Foundation. The initial framing of the announcement, is as a neutral place for companies and developers to share ideas and interact, ultimately increasing the commercial opportunities for all [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
Tagged with: Business, funding, growth, interactive, investing, investment, launch, leaders, management, microsoft, open source, opensource, opportunities, opportunity, product, sharing, software, strategy
The LA Times points to the plight of small business centers in the state of California, which offer loans, counseling and other resources to entrepreneurs. Despite the fact that they’ve been busier than ever before, cuts to state budgets have forced them lose out on matching federal funds, turn people away and in some cases, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 27th, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Tagged with: budget, Business, California, Community, economy, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, opportunities, opportunity, resources, sharing
I’ve already mentioned how incorporating good business practices like accounting transparency and shared systems can increase the efficiency and life expectancy of non-profit organizations. Another method to consider in today’s challenging economy is affinity marketing, a tool that can help NPOs fundraise without further burdening their supporters.
Affiinity marketing allows an NPO to partner with for-profit [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Tagged with: Affinity Marketing, Business, economy, effective, marketing, Non Profit Organizations, non-profit, quality, sharing
I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tagged with: art, discussion, forum, insights, interview, knowledge, opportunity, philanthropist, philanthropy, sharing, The Importance of Art, thought, video, web
Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.