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Oscars are over, but you can nominate a star in your life
The awards below might not be handed out at this venue, but they're still pretty special. (Photo: Flickr user p-a-t-r-i-c-k, via Creative Commons) The Academy may be out of golden trophies for the...
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Nonprofits have tax deadlines too
Photo by Alan Cleaver (Flickr/Creative Commons) If you hurried to the Post Office today to pay your taxes or claim your refund, you’re in good company. Estimates are that 25% of U.S. taxpayers file on...
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Who files 990s for your organization?
Two weeks from today, May 15th, is the deadline by which most U.S.-based nonprofits need to turn in their Form 990 to the IRS. (The deadline is four months and 15 days after the end of an...
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Introducing our new blog editor, Allison Jones!
Hi, everyone. I’m Julia Smith and I’ve been lucky to edit this blog over the past few years, working with our team to shed light on everything from idea-sharing potlucks to New Year’s resolutions for...
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Is your organization making a difference?
Just about everyone with an interest in nonprofits wishes for greater information about their effectiveness. Unfortunately, with millions of nonprofits around the world addressing everything from...
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Opportunity spotlight: Sports for non-Olympians
The 2012 Olympic Games kick off today! Though few of us will live the dream today and compete, there are lots of other ways to get involved in some healthy athletic competition while making the world a...
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Idealist Reddit Roundup: Tips on fundraising, starting a nonprofit, and more
A long, long time ago, Idealist started a subreddit at reddit.com/r/nonprofit. Since then, there’s been some of staff turnover and shuffling between offices, and our Reddit page has been woefully...
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Respond and Rebuild: Community-led disaster relief in NYC
More than five months after Hurricane Sandy tore into the coasts of New York and New Jersey, many people are still feeling the effects. One neighborhood that suffered great losses and is still digging...
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UNICEF takes a stand against ‘slacktivism’
UNICEF Sweden’s Ad It’s almost impossible to avoid ‘slacktivism’ these days, with people changing their Twitter pictures to represent a cause or issue and liking nonprofit organizations on Facebook...
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Are the happiest people changing the world?
Photo credit: photobank.kiev.ua, Shutterstock Here’s a question for you: are you happy changing the world? Does that spur you on to do bigger and better things? In an article on Harvard Business...
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What to do when it’s time to walk away
(Photo credit: Anson0618, via Shutterstock) While we might know when a relationship, job, or project is over, that doesn’t always mean we’re ready to leave. Recently in the Atlantic, Heidi Grant...
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GiveDirectly: What happens when we just give money to the poor?
When you first hear from an organization that’s asking for money to fight poverty, how do you respond? If you’re like me, it’s usually with a healthy dose of skepticism: how would my money be used?...
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Once upon a hack: Socially conscious storytelling event in NYC
From the “two great things that go great together” file: In New York City the weekend of October 5 and 6, changemakers with stories to broadcast and creative storytellers with a penchant for social...
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December 1 is World AIDS Day
Since 1988, when the United Nations declared December 1 as the first World AIDS Day, people worldwide have paused each year to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with...
View ArticleVIDEO: How disaster can feed inspiration (the Shore Soup story)
Back in October, Idealist video producer Liz Morrison blogged about the Shore Soup Project, a new nonprofit in Queens, New York. Right after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Robyn Hillman-Harrigan made the...
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Fight for Light: Bringing clean, green awareness to black campuses
Happy January! Welcome to Clean Start week. — There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of organizations working to increase awareness of climate change. If you take a step back though, it’s apparent that...
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Clean, lean bike orgs are wheeling and dealing social change
Happy January! Welcome to Clean Start week. — We had a ton of fun posting about this female-centric bike shop a couple of months ago, and it got me thinking about the variety of socially-conscious...
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‘Service’ is stodgy. What’s a better word for what we do?
As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this week and people across the U.S. come together to help each other and work toward solving our common problems, we’d like to pose the question: what exactly...
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VIDEO: Portland rocks the MLK Day of Service
This past January 20th, the Idealist video team traversed the neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon to visit some awesome service activities happening as part of the MLK Day of Service. The thousands of...
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Don Draper hates Louder, but we love it
At Idealist, we love good ideas of all kinds, but especially those that turn commonly-accepted notions on their heads, get us to confront our beliefs, and (maybe) stir up a little trouble. To honor...
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