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The Changing Music Business: The Chart
We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties.
Basically there’s more and more money being spent on live shows and, consequently, more money going…
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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
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Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
Warren Buffett; the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Community College Associations; and Others Join to Support Small Business Job Creation and commit $500 million to fund the new program.
Original article: Goldman Sachs | Press – Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
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Social Impact Business Plan Competition
The Social Impact Business Plan Competition “identifies social sector scaling initiatives with demonstrated impact and readiness to grow and supports them with up to $100,000 of financial and consulting awards.” Open to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations with a focus in education, youth development, health, poverty alleviation or community economic development. Go here for more information.
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Action, In Words and Pictures
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change.
With his new book Actions Speak Loudest, Bob McKinnon has brought together some disparate names to explain how change is fueled by action—not just talk. From Newt Gingrich to Donovan McNabb, Jeffrey Sachs to Jimmy Carter, the book illustrates the many ways in which changemakers leave their mark. McKinnon also heads up Yellowbrickroad, a communications and marketing company…
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The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis.
When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one…
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How Much Could We Save With Electronic Medical Records?
It’s no secret massive waste pervades the health-care industry. Some of that waste stems from unnecessarily complex interactions between doctors, patients, and insurance companies. By making the entire process hospital care more efficient, we could help limit that waste. By using electronic medical records and streamlining procedures, hospitals could save billions of dollars, which could in turn be spent on better care.
A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday.
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Disruptive Innovation for Environmentalists
How to identify the game-changing ideas and technologies that will replace outdated businesses with better, smarter, and more sustainable alternatives
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” —Henry Ford
One hundred years later, Ford’s customers are asking for greener SUVs, and that is what Ford is giving them. Whoever gives Ford’s customers a whole new greener way of getting from A to B will become one of the…
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The Confusion of Microlending
The Times has an interesting story on a small imbroglio that has broken out in the microlending world, specifically concerning GOOD friends Kiva and Global Giving. Namely, do you know where your money is going?
Luckily, it’s nothing insidious. The money all gets loaned out to people who need money. Rather, it’s a question of perception and transparency. When you go to Kiva to donate money, you are not giving your $25 money to a specific entrepreneur, which is…
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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
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Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
Warren Buffett; the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Community College Associations; and Others Join to Support Small Business Job Creation and commit $500 million to fund the new program.
Original article: Goldman Sachs | Press – Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
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Social Impact Business Plan Competition
The Social Impact Business Plan Competition “identifies social sector scaling initiatives with demonstrated impact and readiness to grow and supports them with up to $100,000 of financial and consulting awards.” Open to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations with a focus in education, youth development, health, poverty alleviation or community economic development. Go here for more information.
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How Much Could We Save With Electronic Medical Records?
It’s no secret massive waste pervades the health-care industry. Some of that waste stems from unnecessarily complex interactions between doctors, patients, and insurance companies. By making the entire process hospital care more efficient, we could help limit that waste. By using electronic medical records and streamlining procedures, hospitals could save billions of dollars, which could in turn be spent on better care.
A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday.
Read & Discuss
Disruptive Innovation for Environmentalists
How to identify the game-changing ideas and technologies that will replace outdated businesses with better, smarter, and more sustainable alternatives
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” —Henry Ford
One hundred years later, Ford’s customers are asking for greener SUVs, and that is what Ford is giving them. Whoever gives Ford’s customers a whole new greener way of getting from A to B will become one of the…
Read & Discuss
The Confusion of Microlending
The Times has an interesting story on a small imbroglio that has broken out in the microlending world, specifically concerning GOOD friends Kiva and Global Giving. Namely, do you know where your money is going?
Luckily, it’s nothing insidious. The money all gets loaned out to people who need money. Rather, it’s a question of perception and transparency. When you go to Kiva to donate money, you are not giving your $25 money to a specific entrepreneur, which is…
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The Confusion of Microlending
The Times has an interesting story on a small imbroglio that has broken out in the microlending world, specifically concerning GOOD friends Kiva and Global Giving. Namely, do you know where your money is going?
Luckily, it’s nothing insidious. The money all gets loaned out to people who need money. Rather, it’s a question of perception and transparency. When you go to Kiva to donate money, you are not giving your $25 money to a specific entrepreneur, which is…
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Bringing the Business of IT to the Nonprofit World
Five questions every nonprofit IT department should be asking
In the world of nonprofits, as in most organizations, decisions can be made fast. Opportunities arise and actions must be taken, sometimes without informing the entire staff of what’s to come. Information Technology, or IT, is too often the last department to find out about the plan – a plan that frequently requires our involvement to implement. IT departments often feel like they’re trying to catch up,…
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Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Social Venture Capital
So, you’ve got your big, world-changing idea. You’re up and running, it’s going well, and now you’re looking to take things to the next level. Whether that means hiring staff, boosting your technological capabilities, or expanding geographically, you’re going to need money. One way to get it is through social venture capital.
While there are many different social venture firms, each with its own philosophy and process, leaders have begun to emerge within the nascent space.…
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Action, In Words and Pictures
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change.
With his new book Actions Speak Loudest, Bob McKinnon has brought together some disparate names to explain how change is fueled by action—not just talk. From Newt Gingrich to Donovan McNabb, Jeffrey Sachs to Jimmy Carter, the book illustrates the many ways in which changemakers leave their mark. McKinnon also heads up Yellowbrickroad, a communications and marketing company…
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The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis.
When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one…
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Philanthrocapital Gains
The Economist’s Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy.
The first edition of Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World was released, as Bishop puts it, on the morning of the global economic collapse. The book, which outlines the changing landscape of philanthropy and offers a prescription for effective giving through business acumen, was received well by critics but its timing was less than opportune.…
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The GOOD 100: Building Trains in Detroit
Back on the Train Gang
By Michael Dukakis. Dukakis is a former governor of Massachusetts and served on Amtrak’s board of directors. He thinks we need to use Detroit factories to manufacture trains.
After years of delay, during which both Europe and Asia enjoyed the benefits of modern trains that run at speeds of 200 miles per hour and beyond, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Congress have made an $8-billion down payment on what can and…
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The GOOD 100: Big Brands Bet on Electric
Leading the Charge
A fleet of electric vehicles may seem like a remote reality right now, but if the corporate world is betting right, it is closer than we think. Besides the various car companies now falling over themselves to get electric cars into the market, other major American corporations are starting to get ready for a world in which people need to fill up their ride with a plug and not a pump.
Best Buy is starting its…
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The GOOD 100: Electric Cars
Tesla
As evidenced by the flashy concept renderings all over the internet, every established car company out there, from Ford to Rolls-Royce, has a plug-in vehicle “in development.” But the $109,000 Tesla Roadster is still the only highway-capable plug-in you can actually buy, fully assembled, in America. In July, Tesla accomplished something else car manufacturers should be jealous of: It turned a profit of $1 million.
The road’s been bumpy, though. There have been the nasty legal disputes…
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The GOOD 100: The Oil Drum
Crude Blogging
We’re running out of oil, but search for the phrase “peak oil” on the websites of 31 major U.S. newspapers, and you’ll get a mere 941 hits, total. That’s the kind of thing the Oil Drum would like to address. The online think tank, launched in 2005, is filling that void with grounded writing on natural resources and energy.
According to co-founder Kyle L. Saunders, a political-science professor at Colorado State University, “We started off like…
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The GOOD 100: Grid Parity
The day will come when solar power isn’t just for tree-hugging eccentrics and the trendy rich—when it becomes as cheap as or cheaper than the electricity that is currently available. This turning point is known in the energy business as “grid parity.” As parts of the United States start to hit grid parity, the people in those areas will actually save money by switching to solar, and the market for the technology will skyrocket. That,…
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The GOOD 100: Chinese Solar
Here Comes the (Chinese) Sun: How Chinese innovation is going to revolutionize solar power for the rest of the world
Residents of the city of Rizhao claim to be the first Chinese to greet the sun each day as it rises from the Yellow Sea. In fact, the city’s name is a condensed form of the Chinese phrase ri qu shien zhao, which literally means “first to get sunshine.” They also make some of the best use…
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The GOOD 100: Cola Life
There aren’t too many places in the world where you can’t buy a Coke, and that includes some of the remotest parts of developing countries. Coincidentally, that’s often where aid organizations have the hardest time delivering medicine and other supplies. That’s why ColaLife is lobbying the international beverage behemoth to open up its distribution channels for some constructive piggybacking. The nonprofit is working on a wedge-shaped package that can deliver goods in the space between…
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Save the Earth with Dirty Towels
“Welcome to the Welton Inn, where you can help in our fight against environmental degradation. A towel on the rack means ‘I’ll use it again.’ Also, did you know that taking the elevator to your room uses 15 watts of energy? Consider taking the stairs. To make ice, simply fill your ice bucket with water and wait for winter.” Beware of companies that exploit your desire to be green. A GOOD Provocation.
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Diamonds 101
If you’re planning on popping the question this year, you’re probably in the market for some jewelry. And we realize you might be too busy crafting the perfect proposal to research the pedigree of your engagement ring. That’s why we do the legwork for you in our latest video Transparency.
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Super Bowl 2009: The Numbers
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Opium Economics
Heroin makes Lou Reed feel like Jesus, and it won’t leave Guns N’ Roses alone, but how does it end up here in the United States? We take a look at the global opium trade from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to a shady street corner near you.
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Opium Economics
Heroin makes Lou Reed feel like Jesus, and it won’t leave Guns N’ Roses alone, but how does it end up here in the United States? We take a look at the global opium trade from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to a shady street corner near you.
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The State of the Planet
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Campaign Fundraising
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Vampire Energy
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On Skid Row: Afterword
For over 20 years the official policy for Skid Row has been one of containment. Los Angeles needs a catalytic action from its political leadership and it’s not getting it. People ask “what can I do?” Anything. An original GOOD Video series. Part 5 of 5.
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On Skid Row: Kids
Franklin Arburtha carries the mantle of disenfranchised youth on Skid Row. But the deck is stacked against anyone who’s lived here—especially the children. An original GOOD Video series. Part 2 of 5.
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