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Meet the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium Panelists: George Weiner, WholeWhale.com
Tweet #GivingUnderTheInfluence Register Now! Click here. On April 24th, America’s Charities is hosting #GivingUnderTheInfluence, a symposium focused on key trends, solutions, and strategies shaping the future of employee engagement and workplace giving. In this series of posts, we’ll introduce you to the panelists who will lead the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium discussion. Meet Panelist: George Weiner “Scarcity…
Read MoreLUNGevity: Finding the Silver Lining
We featured this week’s Featured Charity, LUNGevity, last May and introduced you to their unique, comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of people affected by lung cancer (click here to read that post). This week, we’d like to introduce you to Jill Feldman. More than 200,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year…
Read MoreLUNGevity: Finding the Silver Linings
Tweet #thischarityrocks We featured this week’s Featured Charity, LUNGevity, last May and introduced you to their unique, comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of people affected by lung cancer (click here to read that post). This week, we’d like to introduce you to Jill Feldman. More than 200,000 people will be diagnosed…
Read MoreMeet the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium Panelists: Marc Johnson, APCO Worldwide
Tweet #GivingUnderTheInfluence Register Now! Click here. On April 24th, America’s Charities is hosting #GivingUnderTheInfluence, a symposium focused on key trends, solutions, and strategies shaping the future of employee engagement and workplace giving. In this series of posts, we’ll introduce you to the panelists who will lead the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium discussion. Meet Panelist: Marc Johnson As…
Read MoreMeet the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium Panelists: Heather Lofkin Wright, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tweet #GivingUnderTheInfluence Register Now! Click here. On April 24th, America’s Charities is hosting #GivingUnderTheInfluence, a symposium focused on key trends, solutions, and strategies shaping the future of employee engagement and workplace giving. In this series of posts, we’ll introduce you to the panelists who will lead the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium discussion. Meet Panelist: Heather Lofkin Wright…
Read MoreMeet the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium Panelists: Tom Watson, President & Founder of CauseWired
Tweet #GivingUnderTheInfluence Register Now! Click here. On April 24th, America’s Charities is hosting #GivingUnderTheInfluence, a symposium focused on key trends, solutions, and strategies shaping the future of employee engagement and workplace giving. In this series of posts, we’ll introduce you to the panelists who will lead the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium discussion. Meet Panelist: Tom Watson President…
Read MoreHow a Pair of Used Jeans Helped a Single Mom Find a Job
Tweet #charityrocks Rachal Underwood, a single mother of a two-year-old, found herself unable to gain employment a few years ago. Not within the legal profession, where she had experience, or anywhere else. Rachal was at her wit’s end and willing to take a job anywhere – if only she could find…
Read MoreRegister for the April 24th #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium in D.C.
How Digital Culture is Driving the Next Generation of Employee Engagement What inspires employees to give and engage with charitable causes? How can companies balance engaging, high-impact activities with low-cost solutions? How can the employee giving environment inside the walls of the workplace mirror the digital experience outside the walls of the workplace? Social media,…
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Why Can’t We Sell Charity Like We Sell Perfume?
It’s time to change how society thinks about charity and social reform. The donating public is obsessed with restrictions—nonprofits shouldn’t pay executives too much, or spend a lot on overhead or take risks with donated dollars. It should be asking whether these organizations have what they need to actually solve problems. The conventional wisdom is…
Read MoreIs Goodwill the Most Important Social Enterprise in 2013?
Source: Giovanni Rodriguez, Forbes.com As the email signature of many Goodwill Industries staffers says, “Every 38 seconds of every business day, a person served by Goodwill earns a good job. Every 8 seconds, another person accesses Goodwill opportunities to build careers and strong families.” In the world of marketing and social engagement, you sometimes look…
Read MoreWhat’s Changed About Workplace Giving? Not What You’d Expect
By Steve Greenhalgh For several months, I have been conducting research for a new study commissioned by America’s Charities called, Snapshot: Trends and Strategies to Engage Employees in Greater Giving. Snapshot follows two previous studies issued by America’s Charities, which I also helped produce – “Employee Workplace Campaigns: At the Crossroads” (issued in 2000) and…
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