SHOFCO – Kennedy Odede, 30 Under 30 and Changing the World
Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) was founded in 2009 by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner. Kennedy spent the first 23 years of his life in one of Nairobi’s largest slums, Kibera, and came...
View Article[INTERVIEW] Want to be an Innovative Nonprofit? Learn from Beespace
Terri Harel StayClassy Marketing Associate Beespace is a nonprofit incubator based in New York City. Modeled after tech startup incubators, Beespace guides and supports innovative, promising...
View ArticleMeet These 5 Nonprofit Rockstars During the CLASSY Awards Weekend
On May 2nd and 3rd, the CLASSY Awards Weekend will attract 3,000 of the country’s top leaders in the social sector to celebrate the greatest champions of social progress, and provide a space – the...
View ArticleGet Thinking: The Best Articles on Social Impact, From Around the Web
Editor’s note: This Friday and Saturday, StayClassy will be hosting the CLASSY Awards, a weekend-long experience that celebrations the champions of social progress. A large part of the weekend is...
View Article9 Things We Learned at the CLASSY Awards and the Collaborative
After a long weekend of learning, collaborating, connecting, and celebrating, nonprofit professionals from all over the world are heading home to apply all the social impact ideas they learned at the...
View ArticleWhy For-Purpose Organizations Need Support, Now More Than Ever
You may have heard that a few weeks ago, during a TED Interview with Charlie Rose, Google CEO Larry Page hinted he’d rather give his money to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk than to a cause. First,...
View ArticleThe Weekly Roundup: The Best in Nonprofits from Around the Web
Social Impact & Enterprise Social Impact: Can it be Demonstrated? We’ve featured this article in a previous Weekly Round Up, but it’s a great lead-in for the articles that follow. Can social...
View ArticleThe Weekly Roundup: The Best in Nonprofits from Around the Web
5 Things They Tell You About Refugees That Aren’t True Today, World Refugee Day, the UN reported more than 50 million people globally are refugees, asylum seeks or internally displaced. This article...
View ArticleThe Weekly Roundup: The Best in Nonprofits from Around the Web
Disruptive Innovation: Where it Matters Most A nonprofit joins the “innovation” debate, which was sparked by Jill Lepore’s tear down of the word in the New Yorker last week. Go to top New Media, Old...
View ArticleOn the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
What is left to be said of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi? Their duality and their shared purpose, for which they are receiving the coveted award, have been...
View Article4 Nonprofit Organizations That Move Mountains
At Classy, one of our core values is to “stand for something.” Whatever it may be, standing up for what you believe in begets change. Nonprofit organizations are driven by this very value. Their...
View Article10 Nonprofit Infographics that Inspire and Inform
Infographics have exploded in popularity over the last few years and they are great for social sharing. We’ve gathered some of the best examples from nonprofits to show you how to use graphics to...
View ArticleHow Innovation Can Turn Bad News Into Hope and Progress
This post is brought to you by our partner, the Collaborative Exchange, the online publication of the CLASSY Awards that explores important ideas and trends in innovation, technology, and...
View ArticleHow World Concern Exceeds Fundraising Goals
Every spring the World Concern team is hard at working preparing for the annual Free Them 5K charity walk. It’s an event that raises money to prevent human trafficking and the exploitation of women and...
View ArticleHow To Get Noticed In The Nonprofit Sector
There are over 1 million nonprofits operating in the United States alone, with thousands of organizations working on similar problems. While this variety of viewpoints and contributors is helping to...
View ArticleGrow Your Audience and Revenue With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
The power of peer-to-peer fundraising lies in its ability to amplify and empower your community. The reason it has gained so much traction in the past few years is because it’s a powerful tool for...
View ArticleWhy It’s an Unprecedented Year for Social Innovation
This post is brought to you by our partner, the Collaborative Exchange, the online publication of the CLASSY Awards that explores important ideas and trends in innovation, technology, and...
View Article4 Awesome Visual Features from Top Nonprofit Websites
Visual content grabs your audience and engages them in a way that your mission statement can’t. It’s important, of course, to include the details of your organization’s work on your website, but that...
View ArticleHow to Support Nepal Earthquake Relief Efforts
The Current Situation in Nepal UPDATE: 5/12/2015: This morning, another 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. The New York Times reports at least 37 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured. This...
View ArticleThe Simple Technology That Empowered a Small Nonprofit to Scale
This post is brought to you by our partner, the Collaborative Exchange, the online publication of the CLASSY Awards that explores important ideas and trends in innovation, technology, and...
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