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 […]
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Want Consumers’ Attention? Ditch the CSR Report
Lots of companies are attracted to sustainability and decide to commit to it. Fewer see the value of certifying their sustainability commitment with a CSR report. But fewer still fail to signal the fruits of their labor (and reporting) to their consumers. The contents of a CSR report almost never reach consumers’ eyes because they’re […]
Own Your Mission
Advisors are people who invest in your business because they see value in what you’re doing. Instead of investing with money, they’re doing it through their time, guidance and networks. Show them the value. You’re not creating another company. You’re creating a mission that people find exciting and inspiring. There will be times when you […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Bright Spots–From the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit
By Lee Fox for Cause Capitalism. I sit in a room filled with a SEA of bright minds, who just like me, aspire to change the world for the better one way or another. Over 700 of us are gathered at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit & World Forum to hear Chip Heath, author and professor at Stanford Graduate School of […]
Are You Making This Mistake? You Have a Company, Now You Want an Advisory Board
Find your Yodas before you build your company. That’s the piece of advice that entrepreneurs offer about advisory boards that surprises me the most. To find your Yodas, you need to be clear about who you’re looking for and how they will further your vision, and you need to meet them where they are. While […]
“Disruptive Philanthropy”–From the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit
By Lee Fox for Cause Capitalism. Philanthropy is characterized by specific behaviors in the context of compassion (the love of humanity), action (volunteerism), donation (the gift of money) and collaboration (partnerships). Successful social enterprises require each of these elements to healthfully co-exist. Of course, all it takes is the pinch of a bad economy to throw […]
Catalyzing the Field of the Social Enterprise: From the Social Enterprise Summit
I asked Lee Fox to share ideas and conversations from this week’s Social Enterprise Summit. We’ll post additional blogs video interviews next week with social entrepreneurs from Chemists Without Borders, Universal Giving and Donors Choose. If you’re at the conference say, ‘hi’ to Lee and ask her about her social venture, KooDooZ. The Social Enterprise […]
I'm Olivia Khalili. I created Cause Capitalism to show you how to grow your business by incorporating a social mission. I've worked extensively with both nonprofits and for-profits. I found that when you combine the two, you grow your profits, impassion all your stakeholders and do good in the world. Read more.
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