Social Startups Are Here, But Going Nowhere
Maggie Coggan, a Journalist at Pro Bono News covering the social sector, shares a NESTA report's findings that reveal European social entrepreneurs are struggling to scale their startups due to a...more

$1 M Impact Investment to Revitalize Neighborhoods Through the Arts
Foundation: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership (SGDCP) has recently announced that it will be committing $1,000,000 to impact investments. The partnership is the sister organization to...more

Teachers Named Ambassadors for Innovation
Five Utica Community Schools teachers have been recognized as Classroom Maker Ambassadors for the "Makerspaces" program that creates a learning environment to support innovation in students. A...more

This Village Of Black Artists Has Been A Semi-Secret Creative Haven For 50 Years
St. Elmo Village, a free-spirited arts education complex, has been transformed into one of Los Angeles' under-recognized Black arts hubs. The hub has a long history of activism and has been a...more

Philanthropic Collaborations - How Some Succeed, and Why Some Fail
Researchers Alison Powell, Susan Wolf Ditkoff, and Fay Twersky have partaken in a collaboration literature review, which identified more than 125 major articles and reports by practitioners and...more

Sustainable Community Initiative Endorsed by EIT InnoEnergy
Renault is collaborating with EIT InnoEnergy, the EU's innovation arm supporting sustainable energy, to formally endorse the sustainable community initiative, FeliZiudad. FeliZiudad was launched...more

Scottish Social Enterprises Vie for Funding Worth 3.3 million Pounds
Investment programmes, Step Up and Scale Up Challenges, are being launched to support all social enterprises across Scotland. Social Investment Scotland (SIS) created the two funding challenges...more

Vermont's Rural Communities Fighting to Save Their Schools
In Vermont's rural communities, district schools are struggling with the future of their small schools and declining enrollment. In each town, residents worry not just about the quality of their...more

This Entrepreneur is Living his Dream which Started Giving Away Clotheslines
MarketWatch's Livability series features Ossipee-based Josh Arnold, Founder and Director of the nonprofit Global Awareness Local Action (GALA). Arnold is a self-proclaimed "accidental director" of...more

Attracting Millennials To The Mission
Melanie Lockwood Herman, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center in Leesburg, VA, highlights a Fast Company magazine story, titled "Millennials in the Corner Office, Gen Y Bosses...more