There is a great little post at “Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology” about the biggest mistakes that nonprofits can make on their websites. Its actually a collection of recommendations from a variety of different people.
My favorite advice comes from Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog, where she suggests that the biggest mistake a nonprofit can [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘center for global engagement’
July 28, 2008
Biggest nonprofit website mistakes
July 22, 2008
Who will take on donor education?
Sean Stannard-Stockton at Tactical Philanthropy has had a couple interesting posts in the last few weeks about the “low hanging fruit” in improving philanthropy. The argument is basically while there are big challenges and debates to be had (such as the questions of metrics, which we tend to come around to here on DGW quite [...]
July 11, 2008
‘The Danger of Not Knowing Crap’: inside the world of youth global engagement and service projects
The Center for Global Engagement I run at Northwestern tries to ensure that all students graduate knowing how best they can contribute to global social change throughout their lives, whether its as development professionals or responsible corporate citizens, or something else entirely. We believe that the foundational learning experience for anyone who wants to create [...]
June 28, 2008
Hot Social Entrepreneur Tip #84: Work (loudly) in coffee shops
It seems like every other week or so, some one tells me a story of a chance meeting in a coffee shop that resulted in some major boon for their organization. For me, it has ranged from meeting the future funder of two annual Center for Global Engagement post-graduate fellowships to conversations like the one [...]
Charlie is a student of international development; a co-founder of Runa, a social enterprise producing sustainablly harvested high-energy teas and beverages from the Ecuadorian Amazon; a meditater; and a musician. You can reach him at caharding (at) gmail (dot) com
