Whoa. Graduation is looming and you’ve got a ton of end-of-semester activities to tackle, not to mention family descending on campus to wish you well as you move into a new chapter of your life. But
The question behind each Impactathon has guided all 12 events in the global series: What will it take to get our next generation prepared for the workforce and to solve some of our most pressing social challenges? Over the last two months, Net Impact visited a handful of stops in Europe to introduce design thinking to students and employees in the hopes of generating new ideas and fostering strong connections.
Boundaries break down when you’re in a room with strangers for 10 hours straight – and that’s exactly what happened at our recent Impactathon held with global technology company SAP in the Bay Area
The nonprofit sector has definitely come under examination in the last few years. From the increased focus on talent development, to the TED manifesto on warped charity perceptions, to the catchy
The challenges facing the energy industry over the coming decades are immense, says Michael Puckett, a graduate student at Yale University. These are messy problems...which require a deep
Looking around the office here, it's clear that conference season is upon us - volunteer t-shirts are coming in, freshly printed, as staffers pick up phone lines to field questions about registration
Excelling in a sustainability role requires an extensive science background, right? Not quite. The going notion may be that technical skills will help you tackle environmental impact at work - but
You're the company product manager. You have to reduce your energy load by a final 2% to meet this year's emissions quota. But you've already made every stride imaginable - reducing packaging needs
Don't worry, Net Impact's got you covered. Here are five ways to give the planet (and yourself) a little love and learning on Earth Day. 1. Check out a local Net Impact event.2. Take a Small Step.3
In more than half of the United States, it's still legal to fire someone for being gay. Yet, as participants learned in a recent Issues in Depth call, it was also in many ways a landmark year for LGBT
It often takes a crisis to get everyone talking about renewables - for instance, when energy grids cripple into wide-scale blackout (see: New York City in 2003, Jakarta in 2005, and half of India in
Jessica Rudnick had big ideas when she joined a Net Impact chapter last fall, ready to make an impact on campus. But she quickly discovered it wasn't going to be as easy as she'd hoped. The sophomore
Keeping a social sector organization afloat takes work: it's sometimes a struggle to get donations, pay staff, and coordinate volunteers - not to mention sticking to the mission that got you there in
It's always fun to celebrate milestones, but it's especially cool when that milestone includes one of our favorite hangouts: Facebook (yes, we admit it). Turns out our 10,000th Facebook fan just
By now, many students are knee-deep in internship applications, scrambling to decide how best to spend their summers. But who wants to send out cover letter after cover letter just to end up in a
The nonprofit world has long been thought of as a bastion for the selfless. It's often seen as the place to work if you're more interested in giving than receiving, because - so the prevailing wisdom
Hey, Millennials: caught yourself in the news lately? You might've read that you're less likely to be hired than Boomers, not going to buy a home or car anytime soon, and workers wages are at an all
Think about the last big event you attended - low impact is probably not the first phrase that pops into your head. Event planning leaves a heavy footprint - you're essentially keeping the lights on
Writers and serial collaborators Barry Libert and John Spector once said: We are smarter than me. This simple idea is one of the reasons Net Impact provides opportunities like our annual conference
