Eat lunch, raise dough for CARITAS

In the spirit of Goodwill stores and Junior League resale shops, CARITAS just opened it “Do Good Deli,” a downtown, delivery-only sandwich shop. It’s a for-profit buisness that CARITAS hopes will help maintain the bottom line of the nonprofit CARITAS.
Here’s how it works: You choose a sandwich or salad from the menu, with prices ranging [...]

Did you donate your Taco Bell taco?

This I love. From The Chronicle of Philanthropy blog, Give and Take:
“The fast-food company Taco Bell is giving away free tacos to any person who stops into one of its restaurants this afternoon as part of a promotion tied to the World Series. But instead of encouraging consumers to stuff themselves with free food, an [...]

Let’s hear from the donors and volunteers

It was great to read this blog entry, “Paul Brest Needs a Blog,” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review email I got last week. (Paul Brest runs the Hewlett Foundation, the famous, 50-year-old, $7 billion foundation that makes huge awards to nonprofits of all kinds.)
The author, Sean Stannard-Stockton who wrote a book (Edit! Per Sean’s [...]