Imagine being married before your 18th birthday. That’s the fate half of Indian women face, but one 16-year old girl is part of a bigger group that’s trying to change their domestic destiny. Krishna Chaudhry, a typical village girl in rural India, is one of the 1,000 girls who attend the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, where [...]
The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation has an ambitious goal: to transform how we approach, and ultimately solve, our nation’s most pressing domestic problems in education, health care, poverty, joblessness, the environment, and more. Their secret weapon – the nonprofit sector. According to a White House Press Release, President Obama, in his FY2010 [...]
For decades, American nonprofits have primarily focused their fundraising efforts on the domestic turf. After all, as an economic superpower with a culture that encourages giving, the US probably had the best pool of donors to tap into. However, the number of people capable of making a substantial gift is growing in many part s [...]
Universal education isn’t exactly universal. India, while enjoying one of the best performing economy in recent years, has extremely literacy rate. More than 35 per cent of Indians are illiterate, and more than 50 per cent of its female population cannot read. The problems begin in childhood. Half of Indian children do not go to [...]
Former President Clinton recently remarked that a greater focus needs to be put on philanthropy directed toward rural areas, describing the philanthropic activity in the rural parts of this country has been “woefully inadequate.” One of the issues he addressed was that there is not enough option for philanthropists when considering charity for rural parts [...]
The Six Degrees concept is nothing new. The popular trivia game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, challenges players to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six connections. It’s a small world indeed – and made even smaller by the rise of social networks. Everyone is interlinked in this “human web” today – [...]
Anyone scouring the headlines these days has come to expect the usual messages of doom and gloom. It’s particularly refreshing, therefore, to find some editorials articulating somewhat more hopeful messages, especially on the topic of education. Editorials from newspapers on the opposite ends of the ideological spectrum sprang up last week, in The New York [...]
CSR. Just a few years ago, only representatives from major firms threw this phrase around as a PR jargon. Today it has become part of many people’s daily vocabulary. Now days, it is almost expected for a major firm to have a CRS branch, committed to a few core causes and holding regular events and initiatives. As [...]
South Korea’s president, Lee Myung Bak, has pledged to donate $26 million of his personal fortune to a scholarship fund benefiting the poor. The president has lived the “rags to riches” dream, starting as a poor rural boy, rising to the top of the conglomerate world with Hyundai, and to becoming president of South Korea. [...]
Echoing a 2006 article by Slate, the future of philanthropy is coming to pass as a form of “venture philanthropy”. We even have the same familiar faces that drive the business world appearing on the non profit scene. Consultants, marketing specialists, etc. abound in start up organizations like PoP and other likeminded nonprofits. Just got [...]
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