Alumni Resources - Social Responsibility


Social Responsibility Resources


 
Online Media:

• Ode Magazine - A print and online publication about positive news, about the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better.
• GOOD Magazine - A collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward.
• Good News Network
• TED talks - A small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
• Fora.tv - The web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.
• Causecast - A place to explore issues while helping you connect with a community of people wanting to make a difference.
• Current - Current.com is the first fully integrated web and TV platform where users can participate in shaping an ongoing stream of news and information that is compelling, authentic and relevant to them.

Giving

Microlending

• Kiva - Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
• Grameen Foundation - combining the power of microfinance, technology, and innovative solutions to defeat global poverty

Philanthropy

• Resource Generation - A national organization that works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.
• Network for Good
• JustGive
• Global Giving - Connects donors with community-basd projects that need support.
• DonorsChoose.org - Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the a project you choose. once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school.
• Charity Navigator - An independent charity evaluator that works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,400 of America's largest charities
• Better Business Bureau Charity Reports and Information
• Charity.com
• Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society - Housed at the City University of New York, this center is committed to strengthening civil society through education, research, and leadership training
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy - "The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World"

Click to Donate

• CharityUSA - Family of sites includes The Hunger Site, The Rainforest Site, and The Breast Cancer Site.
• Charity Click Donation - Donate to many sites at once using their bulk click donators.
  
• Click2Donate - From Care2, click to conserve land, help kids and stop violence against women. Login to track your clicks over time.

Search to Donate

• GoodSearch - Give to charity just by searching the internet: 50% of their revenue goes to charity, with Yahoo!-generated search results.
• GoodTree - They'll donate 50% of revenues each time you search using results compiled from Google, MSN Search and Yahoo!

Shop to Donate

• Good Shop - Offers coupons and discounts at more than 1,000 popular online stores. Up to 30% of every purchase will also go to your favorite charity or school!

Social Entrepreneurship

• Social Entrepreneur Corps
• Ashoka - The global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs: men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
• Skoll Foundation - Drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems.
• Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Entrepreneurship at change.org
• The New Heroes - Segments of this PBS film are featured in the Civic Leadership Institute

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

• Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
• 3BL Media's CSRfeed, CSRMinute, and CSR blogs
• BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) - BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to develop sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration.
• Social Venture Network - The mission of this group is to "inspire a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet."

Political Involvement:

• Rock the Vote - Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country.
• State Voices - A new model of cooperation and sharing, this nonprofit connects organizations working in historically underrepresented and socially responsible communities, allowing them to come together and share ideas, share resources and cooperate to win policy and civic engagement victories for change.

Interested in starting a service learning or civic engagement class at your school?  

Visit www.servicelearning.org for some ideas on how to get started!


 

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