Wall Street Journal covers Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream
Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Co., discusses a new twist on Samuel Adam’s philanthropy program, Brewing the American Dream, to provide loans and resources to small brewers nationwide for help with start-up costs. Read more in the Wall Street Journal....eBay Inc. Launches The Opportunity Project
eBay Inc. launched The Opportunity Project, a global social innovation initiative designed to support and help scale market-based approaches to providing economic opportunity in vulnerable, impoverished communities. Powered by the eBay Foundation, The Opportunity...Celebrating Volunteerism in Boston
As a member of the Boston Cares board of directors I was thrilled to celebrate the organization’s 20th Anniversary last week at Fenway Park. Joined by Boston’s Mayor Menino, Massachussetts Governor Patick, and hundreds of volunteer award winners and guests, we toasted the past and announced an ambitious agenda for the future.
Under the leadership of Executive Director Patrice Keegan and Board Chair Howard Kogan, the staff created and filled over 70,ooo hours of opportunity for Bostonians to take action in 2010 alone. And take action they did; some 25,000 people volunteered and helped hundreds of Boston nonprofits achieve their critical social and educational missions.
Adobe’s CSR Director By-lines Perspective on Education
In March/April 2011 issue of Leading and Learning with Technology, a publication of the International Society for Technology in Education, Michelle Mann, Adobe’s Director of CSR, writes about Adobe’s focus on education and its active engagement of youth in their own...Teaching and Learning
We are psyched to be back on the road teaching and learning. Here is a sample of our recent and upcoming travels:
February
+ Nikki just got back from New Profit ‘s 2011 Gathering of Leaders in Miami with some of the nation’s pre-eminent entrepreneurs and investors in the social innovation field.
March
+ We are co-teaching a day-long training program for corporate practictioners on “Maximizing Signature Cause Programs” with the Association for Corporate Contributions Professionals. This session is hosted by Bank of America in NYC and only open to ACCP members, but please let us know if you’d like to attend.