Philanthropy

How Will Tracking Outcomes Help Your Organization's Story?

Over the years, as the bar raised people increasingly asked “So what?” “What has been achieved for those dollars?” “What is different for those people that our grants support?” our journey to tracking outcomes and results began and we started to ask ourselves tough questions.

Philanthropy

Taking Sustainability From the Home Kitchen to the Cambodian Slums

Jean Gong, Senior Manager – Internal Communications and Administration for Kohler Co.’s Asia Pacific region helps to oversee Kohler Co.’s donation of squat toilets to the Habitat for Humanity homes. This simple gesture makes a great impact in an area where 54 percent of the population is practicing open defecation.

Volunteering & Community

Father/Daughter Kohler Associates Bring Clean Water and Prosperity to Haiti

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Over 80 percent of Haitian citizens live under the poverty line. Only 16 percent of rural Haiti has adequate sanitation and less than one-third have safe drinking water.

Father-daughter missionaries and Kohler employees Art Stewart and Lisa Burrell travel to Haiti with the family’s mission organization S’MORES International. Though the family has been volunteering in Haiti since 2004, they say never get used to the conditions.

Awards & Rankings

Even More Benefits to Tracking Outcomes

MicroEdge + Blackbaud Vice President of Product Management and Business Development, Charlie Vanek, explores how tracking outcomes can help your organization succeed. From enhanced decision making and improved funding to commercial success, the payoff of outcomes measurement is ever expanding and applies to all organizations and corporations.

Philanthropy

Wendy’s Franchisee Keeps Pedaling for Kids in Foster Care

Ed Anderson, Wendy’s franchisee, is riding his bike across the country to help the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption find homes for “unadoptable” children. We catch up with Ed after a grueling day of biking across 91 miles of hills… Hear his update from Louisville….25 percent through his race!

Philanthropy

Spotlight on EYElliance: 4 Questions with Elizabeth Smith

Many people take their eyeglasses for granted. And yet, 2.5 billion people around the world, largely in developing countries, live with poor vision because they lack access to eyeglasses, hindering their ability to succeed in school or be productive at work. While the benefits are clear, providing eyeglasses to 2.5 billion people is a challenge, requiring multi-faceted action from a cross-sector group of organizations including healthcare systems, private sector eyeglass manufacturers and retailers, NGOs and social enterprises, and policymakers.

Events

Academy Award-Winning Actor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Visits With Youth at Local Boys & Girls Club of America to Celebrate the Maytag Dependable Leader Awards

Boys & Girls Clubs of America has been a long-standing symbol of dependability for Cuba Gooding Jr. His local Boys & Girls Club and its mentors were an important part of Cuba’s youth and a place he counted on and attended regularly.

AI & Technology

Just Add Water—Cooking Up Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships

What do you get when you combine a quarter cup of water with table salt and a zap from a car battery? Enough chlorine to purify 200 liters of drinking water.

Events

Setting a Big Goal: Going “Over The Edge”

I’ve taken on a good share of charity challenges over the years including marathons, multi-day running events and more Speed Golf tournaments than I can remember. But “Going Over the Edge” in Atlanta this September fills me with more trepidation than any fundraiser that has come before.

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