Cross-Disciplinary Solutions and Small Infusions of Cash Spark Innovation
The nonprofit PopTech is on a mission to accelerate innovations that solve vexing social problems, like staging a performance to help residents of Joplin, Mo., recover from a tornado’s destruction.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How to Find New Ideas: Tips From PopTech’s Leader
Andrew Zolli gets people in different fields to work together and share ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Promotes Local Businesses in Crisis-Plagued Countries
Building Markets connects local entrepreneurs with business opportunities to promote stability and fight poverty.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New California HealthCare Foundation Leader Will Continue to Practice Medicine
Sandra Hernández, who is leaving the top job at the San Francisco Foundation, says she has found working one day a week at an AIDS clinic reminds her about the needs of nonprofits and their clients.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Nonprofit Pushes to Make Legal Aid Key Part of Disaster Services
A New York charity that has aided Hurricane Sandy victims is spreading its advice about how to assist people the way the Red Cross does.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Twitter Helps Intel Foundation Plan Grants
The Intel Foundation plans to award $100,000 in education grants to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and it turned to Twitter for advice.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Packard Building Generates Its Own Power
Many of the measures that have helped achieve major efficiency came from off-the-shelf technologies.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Walking Group Finds Playful Ways to Keep Black Women Healthy
GirlTrek wants to get a million women and girls walking by 2018 to help combat heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofits Differ on How to Shape Strategy Chiefs’ Roles
Some officials focus full-time on strategy while others also manage human resources, technology, evaluation, and other administrative functions.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Turn to Chief Strategy Officers to Help Plan Their Futures
As competition for resources grows, nonprofits are hiring new executives to plan for the future and look beyond a group’s day-to-day operations.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor