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STARTING OUT Ways to Do Your Share By DIANA RANSOM August 5, 2007 Many twentysomethings want to do something positive for the world but don’t have large sums to give to charitable organizations whose efforts they admire.

Beyond giving what you can, though, there are numerous other ways, small and large, that you can reach out to address problems such […]

Giving through social networks seems to be one of the fastest growing areas of philanthropy. According to a Wall Street Journal article, “Young donors and volunteers, snubbing traditional appeals such as direct mail and phone calls, are satisfying their philanthropic urges on the Internet. They’re increasingly turning to blogs and social-networking Web sites, such as […]

I was an early adopter at Change.org Ben Ratray’s effort to aggregate donors around causes. It was pretty neat and then people would say come be my friend and see my causes, and I did that for a while. Then I stopped responding because there was no next step; no community was building that I […]

I’ve been taking at look at some of the social capital market exchanges that have been around for a while. Two that are up and running, Bovespa in Brazil and Sasix in South Africa, label projects by non profits “stocks” and report on their progress in the way that regulated for profit exchanges do; quarterly, […]

The new blended value asset class is midway between giving and investing. Citigroup is acknowledging that with a new pair of funds focused on microfinance. That shift, that ability to exist in two world, is a sign of the new investing zeitgeist.

Business Week’s SRI: Invest With Your Heart and Soul makes this claim: “the dark secret of SRI is that it is neither art nor science: It’s image and impulse. It reflects ideological litmus tests…”

Maybe so, but this is all changing very quickly. Read Joe Keefe’s (CEO of Pax World) August 6 article From […]

While looking at various Fair Trade companies I found myself at the website of NoSweat - a unionized and globalized fair trade apparel company.  They have an interesting take the issue of why they chose to organize as a for profit instead of a non-profit:

There are three reasons for our being a for-profit company – Strategy, […]

Is investing in portfolios of socially responsible companies really doing good and doing well with your money? Lucy Bernholz and Jon Entine debate the pros and cons about SRI in this article. On the plus side, your money would be serving a dual purpose, going beyond mere charity dollars while still earning a return. On […]

If you have spare mobile phones, pagers or PDAs sitting on a shelf or in a drawer, you can recycle them through Collective Good in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. After a harrowing couple of years trying to survive financially, it looks like they are now doing well. I found this company when looking at […]