Salesforce.com, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, is a shining example of effective philanthropy strategy. The Salesforce.com Foundation has existed since very early in the company’s life. At the inception of the foundation, the founders invented the 1:1:1 strategy: 1% of founding stock, 1% of employee time, and 1% of product would go to the […]
For most of my life, I hated politics and everything to do with it. In my recent years, I have fallen in love with the game, worked in the field, and learned an astronomical amount of skills and life lessons. Most people think politics is yucky. It’s a yucky game controlled by money and manipulation. […]
The general thought process behind corporate philanthropy is that philanthropy=charity=public relations=more business. Look at us, we built a house for a homeless family,collected canned food at Christmas, and gave $10,000 to the animal shelter, be our client, work for us, etc. Very few businesses think about the social and economic gain that results from actual […]
Johnathan Star talks about the future of nonprofits being VUCA. Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. This doesn’t sound very promising. But it’s true. When you talk to nonprofits or survey the nonprofit landscape, they are in survival mode. They are protective, frantic, and sometimes even hostile. This environment stifles change, rather than contribute to it. […]
Hi! My name is Abby, and I am the woman behind the curtain at Buckhouse Community Consulting (S/O to Hayley Johnston, my website/media/business lady, for creating the curtain). So many people ask me WHY I started this business since I am a social worker. “Shouldn’t I be working in nonprofits?” To be honest, when I […]