I’m reading this book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People (by Emily Pilloton) and I’m 100% convinced that good design is at its best when designed for good. One product featured in the book is something I’ve seen before and I was mesmerized by its brilliance and simplicity– adaptive eye care.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ask America’s billionaires to pledge to donate half of their net worth to charity. Will they accept the challenge?

In an open letter to young women, fifteen year old Lily Kaplan has taken the initiative to invest in girls in developing countries through the UN Foundation Girl Up campaign. Lily is reaching out to inspire other girls across the U.S. to follow in her footsteps.

To ensure they accurately reflect in words and pictures the beauty of all your labor, however, you need to make sure they have access to what they need to tell the story; journalists can’t write about what they don’t see, hear, taste, or experience.

In the nonprofit sector we always talk about collaboration. We know our work is about relationships, always has been, always will be. Social networking tools are cost effective and allow us to take our network weaving to the next level – thoughtfully and consciously to engage new and old constituents.

Why didn’t the media cover my event? How can I get the media to cover my event? And how do I make sure they keep covering my event? We went to the source to find out, discussing the topic with five such writers throughout the country.

Auction appeal, reverse auction, and “the shakedown” are multiple words for the same practice: asking an auction audience for a group donation to charity. However, terms can get jumbled in the chaos of planning an auction, so choose one of the 17 names listed here to avoid confusion among your committee.

Events benefit from media coverage. And seeing a story about your hard efforts or photos of you and your friends looking glamorous and radiant is satisfying and exciting. That’s why everyone seeks it.

After winning a Gold Medal in the 1992 Winter Olympics, Kristi Yamaguchi embarked on a successful career as a professional ice skater and sought-after corporate spokesperson. She was afforded the opportunity to work with charitable organizations and in 1996 started her own Foundation which she named after her personal motto: Always Dream.