Posts Tagged ‘social good’

February

16th

2012

Winning and Doing Good

February 16th, 2012 by geofflivingston
Photo by familymwr

Americans are funny. We love a great competition! Nothing is more exciting than a thrilling winner or watching someone get close to achieve a notable goal. Just look at all of the momentum currently surrounding Twitchange Founder Shaun King in his effort to fund HopeMob with $125,000. It’s been exciting to get Shaun’s updates as…

January

26th

2012

Celebrate the Anti-Heros of Change

January 26th, 2012 by geofflivingston
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These days, social change online seems to always involve a central figure–a hero, if you would. Whether it’s the individual cause champion rallying online influencers and donors, or a benevolent foundation driving a program of change. Yet, in reality while the hero myth makes an attractive narrative it belies the truth. You need to be…

January

16th

2012

I’m in the Dent-Making Business

January 16th, 2012 by ifdy
Photo by superwebdeveloper

How many times have you ended a thought with, “Meh, that’s just wishful thinking” or “Yeah, that’d be nice but whatever?” Can you recount the times you decided to sit back and let things pass by because it would be hard otherwise or people were telling you it wouldn’t work? When was the last time…

January

9th

2012

Baking for Good

January 9th, 2012 by ifdy
Photo courtesy of Emily Dubner, Baking for Good

Some of us probably didn’t plan the path our lives have taken (at least that’s the case for me) but it’s always so interesting to see how our lives unravel and take course, especially when we’re called to do something good for our community—like you’re all doing! So when Emily Dubner was at Harvard majoring…

January

5th

2012

How Will You Change the World in 2012?

January 5th, 2012 by geofflivingston
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After reading Craig Newmark’s post rounding up nonprofit leaders’ social good plans for the New Year, Maddie Grant started a meme asking folks how they plan to make the world better in 2012. What a great way to get the year’s Inspiring Generosity posts started, so here we go! Fortunately, work allows me to help…