Building a Culture of Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Investment, Civic Engagement, however you label it, making a difference in a community is a growing mission in many organizations. When Rollins Crummer Graduate School of Business and the Edyth Bush Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership teamed up to plan their second annual leadership panel, they set out to respond to this growing trend by selecting a topic that would promote civic philanthropy and engage Central Florida businesses of all sizes. They believed that collectively, engaged businesses elevate the conversation, strengthen...
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Mobile Citizen’s Commitment to Closing the Digital Divide
Mobile Citizen provides low-cost wireless Internet access to help nonprofits better serve their communities. Since its inception in 2009, Mobile Citizen was successful in doing just that, one nonprofit at a time. However over time, Mobile Citizen joined the rest of the country in the realization that more than one-third of Americans still did not have broadband access at home. The National Broadband Plan discovered the reason for this gap was threefold: availability, adoption and utilization, and called for a solution in one of its outcome goals: “Every American should have affordable access...
Read MoreQ: Is there a difference between a social entrepreneur and an entrepreneur?
A: Does there need to be? Nonprofit organizations working strategically, collaborating with corporations and communities for greater impact. Are they social entrepreneurs? Companies pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. Are they social entrepreneurs? Both are mission-driven. Both have a strategy and a culture which includes creating and sustaining social value. Whether coming from the nonprofit or business world, they draw upon entrepreneurial thinking to achieve their goals. Take for example these two organizations: Little Man Ice Cream is a local company fighting hunger, not to...
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