Paul Shoemaker Topics

Paul Shoemaker
  • From CSR to CTW - how corporate America can truly be part of changing the world … and still maximize the bottom line
    30 years ago, corporate social responsibility (CSR) wasn't in the vernacular, 20 years ago it started as green-washing, 10 years ago momentum started to build and today, CSR is for real. Private sector companies in America had better have a CSR message and strategy and it better be authentic or else they are going to lose in the employment and customer marketplaces. But more importantly, the private sector can be a significant lever in the decades ahead in not just CSR but in Changing The World (CTW) for the better. And not just because it's the "right thing to do," but because it makes business sense. So many factors and trends have changed over the last 25 years to make that so and it creates an incredible opportunity for the next 25 years
  • The Salespeople and Bean-Counters - Can They just Get Along?!...
    When fundraising and finance staff work well together, our NPO's can grow and flourish; when they clash, they can bring the organization down, even put us out of business! Drawing on years of on-the-ground experience as a non-profit funder and private sector executive, Paul Shoemaker will talk about what happens when it works well and doesn't and WHY?
  • Collective Impact - our generation's big swing at truly changing our communities
    In the 60's & 70's the Great Society was America's great new strategy for changing our communities for the better and reducing or ending poverty. The poverty rate is the same today as it was 50 years ago, that's the bottom line. Surely some progress has been made and investments in our communities has had to have some positive "returns," but the facts are the facts. Why didn't that work and more importantly, what is this generation's plan for whole community change?! There is a burgeoning movement, call it Collective Impact or Collective Action or ... , whatever you call it, it's about a new approach to bringing together the nonprofit, public and private sectors in new, innovative ways to make real progress on our most entrenched social challenges. It’s early, but there are promising stories around the country. What is new about Collective Action and why does it hold real potential for significant social change?
  • Changing the World - We have Enough Money and We have the Know-how ... So what's the problem?
    Most people probably have the notion that society's challenges - education, homelessness, poverty - exist because we don't know how to solve the problems. And other people may think we just need more money and that would take care of things. Neither of those is the primary need in the world today. There are organizations and leaders that truly know how to solve the toughest problems - for example, there are great schools, great teachers, but the problem is replicating and scaling those best practices. Over the last 50 years in America, teen pregnancy has been cut in half and violent crime has declined 40% in the last 30 years - we can solve big problems! Neither one of those took more money, while during that same time we've doubled our spending (in real dollars) on K-12 education with little to no progress. We have the money, we have the solutions, we just aren't making the right investments and doing things the right way.
  • Engaged Donors - who are they, what do they want, how can those relationships be optimized for both sides?
    We've all read so much about how much more engaged donors / philanthropists want to be these days. They don't want to just contribute their dollars, they also want to use their human and social capital, their time and talents as well as treasure. Who are these people and can it really work? There is a great opportunity in our communities if we can bring more resources to our social challenges and the ones we need the most are human and intellectual capital, even more than financial capital. There are ways to do it right and ways it can go very wrong. So what does it look like and how do you set up donors and nonprofits for success in this next kind of relationship?!
  • Venture Philanthropy - What's up these days? Is it for real, smoke & mirrors, any different than other philanthropy??
    In the late 90's, before the dot-bust, entrepreneurs and newly-minted, post-IPO businesspeople were enthralled with the idea of "venture philanthropy," i.e. applying the principles of venture capital to working with and growing more effective non-profit organizations. It was a combination of good, fresh ideas with equal parts arrogance and hubris. But the idea and players held great promise. So what has happened over the last ten years? Is that idea dead, dormant, or resurgent? What happened to all those "high flyers" that were gonna change the world in a new way? What is the potential of venture philanthropy today and for our world's future?
  • What do Corporations have to do with changing the world?

  • What does philanthropy look like in the decade ahead?

  • Stories from the front line of trying to change the world

  • How do we unleash the potential of philanthropists like never before?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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