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David La Piana on why organizations are so often plagued by the very ills they aim to cure  In the 1980s, when I was a young executive director of a children's mental health organization, I first noticed a phenomenon that I later discovered to be widespread throughout the nonprofit sector. The emotionally troubled young clients of one of our day treatment programs were increasingly acting out, reaching dangerous levels of distress and even violence. I had to find out why, and also how to reverse this dangerous behavioral trend. Observing the program in action, I immediately noticed that the staff members caring for these children were tense and unusually contentious, openly bickering among themselves and in front of the children. >>Continue reading this article
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Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: "Let my people go surfing"
 Patagonia takes corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability seriously. In this audio lecture, founder Yvon Chouinard details how the company controls its growth and reduces waste. He also offers a slew of counterintuitive business tips for how to do good while increasing the bottom line. Delivering the 2006 Von Guegelberg Memorial Environmental Lecture at the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Chouinard provides a strategic vision that is on the cutting edge of corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability efforts. >>Listen to this podcast
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Marcia Stepanek on how to inspire people to do good for society
 Okay, so you're a change agent at a traditional nonprofit organization—or you're a social entrepreneur who has just started a social enterprise. You've got your seed funding and a rock-solid business plan. Now what? How do you inspire people, from your CEO to rural farmers to consumers, to change their ways to do good (or at least better) for society? Don't laugh. How to get people to care more about "doing good" is one of the hottest new topics making the rounds of this season's social innovation conferences. Referred to more clinically as "the neuroscience of change," the topic popped up for the first time last spring, at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, then again last month at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, and then again this past week, at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. >>Continue reading this post |  Subscribe to social change!
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