CrowdRise, a for-profit site founded by the 'Fight Club' star that fuses social networking with charitable activism, raised $23 million in its latest fundraising round.
Before you can start the hard word of raising money for your mission, there are a few things you need to put in place to help guarantee your nonprofit's success.
With the holidays behind us, many businesses stop their philanthropic efforts. This is a big mistake, as companies can continue to capitalize on charitable givings.
Small Business Saturday New York Entrepreneurship Week Recycle Bank — a program that rewards people for recycling and other environmentally friendly actions Vestas Wind Systems — a wind-turbine company whose slogan is: “It means the world to us.” 1BOG — a company offering group discounts for solar panels whose name is an acronym for “One […]
You won’t see Papa John, Ronald McDonald or Jared Fogle on stage with Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift and Jay-Z tonight, but franchises are still doing their part to support the Haiti relief effort. Here’s a rundown of just a few of the ways that franchisors and franchisees are coming to the aid of the island […]
There are lots of reasons to love franchises. They give people the chance to own a business, they create jobs, and they produce many of the goods and services that we use every day. And now there’s one more reason to love them: A franchise could save your favorite TV show. That’s what happened last […]
When Paul Newman died over the weekend, he left behind not only a canon of postwar films unparalleled in Hollywood–Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidyand the Sundance Kid, The Color of Money–but he alsobequeathed the legacy of one of the most successful marriages of starpower and consumer-product branding ever to hit supermarket shelves. The ace actor […]