by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Good communications skills change hearts and minds, win over naysayers, convince financial backers and motivate colleagues. In the social sector’s unoriginal veneration of business plans and policy prescriptions, it is all too easy to forget that the five Cs of...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Change doesn’t happen because of good will. It happens when people of good will do tough things. When it comes to social action, it’s all too comfortable to think in grandiose terms and bold pronouncements. Words are nice, even necessary, but they are...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
My favorite sentence in Peter Dreier’s 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century is “No struggle for justice succeeds without organization.” Seasoned social entrepreneurs and practiced change agents are constantly organizing. Most visibly, societal...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Social entrepreneurs are regularly (albeit erroneously) revered and romanticized as pioneering visionaries – tenaciously overcoming groupthink, rallying followers to the cause and single-handedly building their social enterprises. The word superhero comes to...
by Amy Seidman | Impact, Socially Responsible, Sustainability, Verge, Video
Multi national companies have an effect, not just on the stock exchange, but on businesses globally and our ability to surmount the great issues we face today from the environment to the standard of living of over 1 billion poor people globally. Gil Friend talks about...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Social change requires tenacity, strength of commitment and old-fashioned hard work. Bluntly, you may not be tough enough. If social and economic justice is your chosen career path, you can’t avoid hard work. Social change work demands rigor: rigorous thinking...
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