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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
organizations and non-profits since I was child, and working in public service in New York City after college, my pivot to HBS was to dive into the hard skills and action-based work that I was missing to make my community development... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
has the potential to become a national powerhouse. The organization is getting assistance from the HBS Partners of 63, a group of more than eighty members of the Class of 1963 who support a variety of educational initiatives. Members of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
Why companies support nonprofits and other socially responsible activities is an intriguing question for both academics and practitioners. After all, there is no clear-cut evidence that corporate "do-gooding" results in greater... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Supplement
The American National Red Cross (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Eliot Sherman
Lorsch, Jay W., and Eliot Sherman. "The American National Red Cross (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-041, December 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- June 2007
- Supplement
AARP Foundation (B)
By: Srikant M. Datar, Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Thomas Goodwin
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-052, June 2007.
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
morning and go through the day worried about how they look, smell, or feel because they can't afford a bar of soap or a tube of toothpaste." Between 2011 and 2015, Feingold estimates, the nonprofit supplied 100,000 items to social-service... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
American Cancer Society: Access to Care
By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for [109015]. View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
action organization — to shape public policy on issues ranging from overfishing to suburban sprawl. Ullman did extensive research on environmental nonprofits before settling on E2, launched in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
the organization with his wife, he realized that it fit remarkably well with his experience. “So I dug in more, and I discovered this organization that is one of the best kept secrets in the View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools “financially and operationally.” With $1 million in... View Details
- 10 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Investing in Improvement: Strategy and Resource Allocation in Public School Districts
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
low-income kids the same advantages that my son had. “College Match is a nonprofit organization that helps low-income kids get into the best colleges of the country the same way upper-class kids have been... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
organizations that seek funding in this arena. The Goodness Web estimates there are currently 10,000 nonprofit organizations that address mental health in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: April White