Net Impact Blog
A New Netimpact.org
A lot has changed in the two decades that Net Impact’s been helping people make an impact through the work they do – including the internet. So it seems entirely appropriate that we mark our 20th anniversary with a new website that reflects the way our membership has grown and developed…
Recruiting and Team Building the Triple-Bottom-Line Way
Do social ventures have special considerations when it comes to recruiting and engaging top talent? Journalist Anne Field recently spoke to several experts on team-building and recruiting for social enterprises for Forbes.com. One of those experts was Erin Worsham, of the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University, who pointed out the need for talent that grasps the triple bottom line.
Bringing Energy Audits to Small Business
Ever sit in a class just daydreaming? While you’re tapping your fingers thinking about the closing joke Ira made in last week’s This American Life, the fellow next to you might just be having a silent epiphany about a business that will help shape our future. That was Net Impact DC member Daniel Hill 18 months ago in his MBA accounting class…
Share These Books: Introducing the Net Impact Library
For as long as we’ve had documented information, we’ve had libraries. Magnets for the curious and inquisitive, they offer us a world of ideas waiting to be cracked open and put to use. So when Herman Miller (a Net Impact sponsor) approached us with the idea of a Net Impact library, we eagerly embraced the opportunity. Of course, this isn’t your ordinary collection of books.
Can We Create Meaningful Jobs Together?
A change is happening in society. We are gradually realizing that business is not just a way to generate private wealth, nor are jobs worth only a paycheck. These drivers of economic health are also our primary opportunities for creating social value and personal meaning. After all, most of us spend at least half our waking hours at work.
Net Impact Chapters Set the Gold (and Silver!) Standard
It’s no easy feat achieving Gold or Silver standing in our network. These chapters go above and beyond minimum chapter requirements to create opportunities for their members to develop business skills, meet folks who can help members define career paths, and build a community of support to change our approach to social and environmental issues. Meet the 2012 chapters who are setting the network standard…
A Business Model of Infinite Vision
In 2002, Pavithra Mehta began interviewing her granduncle Dr. V, a retired ophthalmologist and founder of the highly profitable eye care practice Aravind. Aravind performs hundreds of thousands of eye surgeries every year, approximately 70% of which are subsidized or provided free of charge to the poor. In a recent email exchange, Pavithra explored with us how her experience of bearing witness as a documentarian can serve an organization that helps others see.
Advocating for Impact: What Workers Want
Net Impact’s new Talent Report: What Workers Want in 2012, our nationwide U.S. study conducted with Rutgers University, lets the cat out of the bag. We Net Impacters are already in on the big secret, but now we’ve got the research to back it up: employees who have the opportunity to make an impact on social or environmental issues on the job are more satisfied than their colleagues who don’t, by almost a 2:1 ratio.
Advocating for Impact: What Workers Want
Net Impact’s new Talent Report: What Workers Want in 2012, our nationwide U.S. study conducted with Rutgers University, lets the cat out of the bag. We Net Impacters are already in on the big secret, but now we’ve got the research to back it up: employees who have the opportunity to make an impact on social or environmental issues on the job are more satisfied than their colleagues who don’t, by almost a 2:1 ratio.
New Infographic on What Workers Want
You may have heard that Net Impact’s new Talent Report: What Workers Want in 2012 reveals that employees who say they have the opportunity to make a direct social and environmental impact through their job report higher satisfaction levels than those who don’t, by a 2:1 ratio. The following info graphic illustrates other key findings from the report (and feel free to spread the word!)…
