Biggest nonprofit website mistakes

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]