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What are the top resources for nonprofit company/sector research?

target="new">Chronicle of Philanthropy: Our subscription to the online product includes access to articles, a jobs section, and interactive features. A Facts and Figures section includes data on donors, charities & foundations,... View Details
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Jan Petzel

acquainted with Community Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of peoples' self-esteem on the extent to which they perceive that others agree with them. Government spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and View Details
  • 12 May 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

works a year from emerging Japanese artists and then displays them in galleries and the company’s offices before selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Carnival Queen

than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2024
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Blockchain for Good

After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
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Field Course: Business of the Arts (BOTA)

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Ratings of nonprofits based on their Accountability & Transparency and Financial Health.  Advisory Board for the Arts Global network-based learning organization in the cultural sector. Statistics... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
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Kresge’s Afterlife

Formerly used to store utensils and cookware, the racks now store the club’s arts-and-crafts supplies. Kitchen equipment Haiti and Jamaica Various charities More than three truckloads of pots and pans, ladles, spoons, china, and rolling... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 04 Jan 2016
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5 Ways to Motivate Employees After the Holiday Season

meeting after the holidays, have a PowerPoint collage of pictures showcasing the highlights of team members’ time off, and have everyone share their favorite memory. 5) Sponsor a Volunteer Day: Give the office a day or half-day to volunteer at their View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education

With some other people in the financial sector we started a charity called ARK—Absolute Return for Kids—and one of the things we did was start a network of academy schools, which were government schools that were intended to serve... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
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Students Reach Out to Haiti

Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section View Details
Keywords: disaster relief; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 10 Feb 2016
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Investing in Sustainability

that will make the organization sustainable. “I believe charities should be investing in ways that align with their mission,” says Tiller. “In that way, they can get both good returns and further their goals.” (Published February 2016) View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
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VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

today and into the future.” Prominent members of the financial community sponsor the conference, including Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Goodwin Procter LLP, Ernst and Young and BackBay Communications. The Charity Partner for the event is... View Details
  • May 2018
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Male Social Status and Women's Work

By: Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore
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  • 02 Jun 2008
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Spending on Happiness

of dollars to charity to experience the benefits of prosocial spending; small changes—a few dollars reallocated from oneself to another—can make a difference. Q: So many of us equate having money with happiness. How does this relate to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Leading a community of health care providers

organized in the form of a company.” Among its many philanthropic and outreach activities under Thiry—who was the focus of a 2010 HBS case study—DaVita provided $1.75 million to charities in 1,000 communities in 2012–2013, sponsors free... View Details
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field and Charity Troyer Moore
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Employment; Wages; Gender; Banks and Banking; Perception
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  • 06 Sep 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

needed to close the learning gaps in this country.” Benjamin Horwitz. Ben co-founded Causeway, a robo-advising platform for charitable giving. When Causeway was acquired by Charity Navigator, he joined as their first vice president of... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
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To the Rescue

assesses the cost-benefit ratio of antipoverty programs and funds only the most effective. Compassion and charity can be married to intellectual rigor, she told Voice of America (December 12, 2012). "We look at the entire landscape and... View Details