A Lemonade Stand Grows, With Some Bumps, Into Social Venture
The New York Times examines the complications of social entrepreneurship through the ups and downs of a charity-minded business that started out with a burst of publicity and investment a few years ago but has run into rocky shoals since.
Opinion: What Melinda Gates Gets Wrong About Gender Equity
Ms. Gates and other wealthy “philanthrocapitalists” who focus on gender-based economic inequality correctly diagnose the problem but prescribe the wrong cures, focusing on technology and private-sector solutions rather than policy fixes, a Quartz writer argues.
Google Giving Applies Engineering Savvy to Social Ills
Wired magazine looks at how Google.org mirrors its parent company’s approach in tackling problems like poverty and inequality.
Donor Shortfall Dooms 30-Year-Old Bay Area Ballet Troupe
A year after changing its name in hopes of attracting tech-industry donors, Silicon Valley Ballet is shutting down, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Technology Is Pushing Firms to Do Good More Authentically
A BBC News report examines how technology is forcing some companies to take their corporate social responsibility efforts more seriously and make them more sustainable.
Simulating Poverty Gives Charity Supporters a Taste of Hard Times
Interactive and immersive campaigns are taking off. Just make sure they are not “cartoonish,” experts say.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Increasingly Popular Crowdfunding Sites Lack Oversight
For-profit crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring helped ordinary people raise billions of dollars last year, but a lack of accountability leaves the public vulnerable to nefarious actors, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Next Best Thing to Being There
The cutting-edge technology is an expensive, thrilling new tool a few charities are using to raise support.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How 4 Nonprofits Use Virtual Reality to Help Their Cause
Charities get creative with a technology that can have an immediate and powerful impact on donors, but they also discover pitfalls.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Is Virtual Reality Right for Your Group? How to Find Out — and Do It Right
Keep it short, skip the call to action, consider alternatives to video, and other tips.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Diversity-Focused Tech Nonprofit Gets Y Combinator Boost
A nonprofit start-up promoting diversity in the overwhelmingly white and male technology industry has been accepted into influential business incubator Y Combinator, USA Today writes.
Obituary: Alfred Mann, Biomedicine Mogul and Big Donor
The billionaire entrepreneur, who gave hundreds of millions of dollars to support biomedical research after earning a fortune in the field, died Thursday at age 90, reports the Los Angeles Times.
John Grisham Teams With Medical Nonprofit on Giveaway Book
The novelist is giving away his latest book, a slim volume that aims to raise awareness of a new cancer treatment, on behalf of a charity that advocates wider use of the procedure, The Washington Post writes.
Gateses Make Media Rounds to Promote Latest Causes
In connection with the release of their latest annual letter on philanthropy, Bill and Melinda Gates talked up their top priorities for 2016 in interviews with Wired, The New York Times, and other outlets.
Facebook Launches Site to Boost Nonprofits’ Use of Its Tools
The online instruction manual is part of an ongoing effort to expand charities’ use of the social-media site.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Black Lives Matter Wins ‘Fast Company’ Kudos for Innovation
The online protest movement that coalesced into a national set of organizations fighting for racial justice was named the most innovative nonprofit of 2015 by Fast Company.