If you’re reading this, you are no doubt familiar with SPAM emails, and you likely realize that many of those emails are scams, trying to get your money or your personal information. Unfortunately, some scammers try to take advantage of others’ generosity by pretending to be a charity looking for donations. This is much more […]
Crowdfunding, using the Internet to raise money from large groups of people from across the country or the world, is a relatively new but very useful tool in generating capital. Companies often use it to generate investment from customers, and creative types use it to get the money to make films and other products. But […]
While regular giving is the most effective way to help others, sometimes an event happens that needs an immediate response. Earthquakes, tsunamis and the like require a lot of help form charitable people. But giving in these situations is not the same as donating to a regularly operating charity. When you want to help out […]
According to the director of entrepreneurial education of Endeavor Brazil, Renata Chilvarquer, the realities of business-minded students in the country are harsh. In a country where only 1.5% of businesses are considered high growth, those who wish to break out and start their own businesses or entrepreneurships face harder certainties than others in higher-income countries. […]
You want to donate to a charity, but you want to make sure that you’re a well-informed donor. So what questions do you ask of a charity before helping out? There are a few obvious choices, which should likely be the first questions you ask. What does the charity do? Who do they help? Are […]
Great news from the Art Institute of Chicago: it has received the largest philanthropic gift in their history a few weeks ago! According to the Chicago Tribune, a major private contemporary art collection with the value estimated at $400 million is being donated to the Art Institute of Chicago by local philanthropists Stefan Edlis and […]
If you could give one dollar of someone else’s money to a charity of your choosing each day, would you? The creators of Tinbox are confident that most people would, which is exactly why they started their charitable mobile app. The Paris-based startup Tinbox was founded in January of last year by a couple of […]
The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership was established in 2006, to create a process to choose a worthy annual recipient. The organization looks to reward and praise worthy institutions that impact and inspire communities around the world. Endeavor’s mission statement is to help High-Impact Entrepreneurs unleash their potential by providing an unrivaled network […]
The Boston Globe weaves an amusing tale—New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft called Donna Smith Sharff the day before Thanksgiving. When he told her that he would like to make a $100,000 gift to the Children’s Room, she was in shock—probably because she didn’t know that Kraft was the billionaire owner of the successful NFL […]
Have you considered donating goods to charity instead of cash? It can be worthwhile, under the right circumstances, to donate clothes or household goods: you get rid of some clutter and help out a charity. Everybody wins. It’s not really that simple though, and like any charitable donation, giving physical goods requires some thought. Perhaps […]
