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Pamela Hawley On Founding UniversalGiving and Why She Helps Companies Have a Cause–video

In this video, shot by Lee Fox at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit, Pamela Hawley, founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, talks about the experience that set her on her path at age twelve and how social responsibility can specifically benefit a company. Pamela Hawley founded UniversalGiving as a nonprofit social enterprise to match donors and volunteers with [...]

Mike Van Patten

How He Turned His 20 Years on Wall Street Into a Hub for Impact Investing –with Mike Van Patten

Michael Van Patten used to give out his entire allowance when he lived in Ecuador during high school.  This went against common practice to ignore people with their hands and pretend they weren’t there.  The poverty he saw stuck with him for years but didn’t affect the way he made a living, until recently. Click the [...]

Chris Noble

3 Lessons For Your Cause Campaign From a Man Who’s Raised $25M For Charity–With Chris Noble

Like this interview?  You can thank Chris on Twitter like this. Cause marketing is the only marketing segment that grew last year, which is good news for Chris Noble, who runs Causemedia Group.  It means that when he has an idea for a social media fundraising campaign, he can find a sponsor who’s dying to [...]

GoLite

How Getting Serious About Sustainability Brought GoLite Serious Growth–with Kim Coupounas

Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. Get the Mp3 Player Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) Kim Coupounas ran a conscious company.  GoLite gave money to the community and recycled. Its employees biked to work, served on [...]

CellarThief.com

Turning Wine Into Water: A New Online Retailer With a Purpose–With Ryan Bettencourt

Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. Get the Mp3 Player Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) Like this interview?  You can thank Ryan on Twitter like this. I do a lot of name calling here: for-profit, nonprofit, [...]

Bruce Burtch

Building Shock and Awe Cause Marketing Campaigns That Meet a Need–With Bruce Burtch

Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. Get the Mp3 Player Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) Like this interview?  You can thank Bruce on Twitter like this. Increased sales, better brand recognition and public perception, engaged employees [...]

Happy employee

The Fundamentals of Building An Employee Volunteer Program

As companies, we spend a lot of time trying to attract the best employees, make them happy, increase productivity, create a corporate culture and positively present our selves to the community. As a socially driven business, we also spend the time and resources to develop practices that advance the mission we stand for. Chris Jarvis [...]

Chris Jarvis

Better Employees, Finances and Image: Why and How to Create A Corporate Volunteer Program–With Chris Jarvis

Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Like this interview?  You can thank Chris on Twitter like this. With a poke in the chest, Chris Jarvis was asked a question on a street corner that stripped away what he knew [...]

Alice Korngold

An Untapped Tactic to Boost Your Company’s Social Mission–With Alice Korngold

What does a nonprofit board of directors have to do with your company’s social mission?  If you think  Not much, then your company is missing out on an effective tactic to boost your social mission. Your company can matter more. Encouraging your employees (management or executive level) to join nonprofits boards facilitates leadership development, supports [...]

Kevin Doyle Jones

In Response to ‘What’s Your Life About?’ He Founded Good Capital–With Kevin Jones

I created Cause Capitalism to answer the question of how you can have a stronger business and help change the world.  The problem with such a nifty concept is that it’s still new, which means that all the ‘market mechanisms’ aren’t in place to help your early social enterprise scale to serve more people. As [...]