The United Nations has published  17 Sustainable Development Goals to guide the role of public, non-profit, for-profit, and voluntary sectors in global development. The team behind it has identified 17 goals and 169 targets, which was ratified at the September 25-27 2015 United Nations summit.

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We updated this post — Find the new and improved article with the best 29 places to find social impact jobs. Finding a job that fulfills you is challenging and very time-consuming, but we can’t emphasize enough the importance of taking a pragmatic approach to finding your

The United Nations has ratified the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They sound surprisingly simple and an obvious no-brainer that everybody should support. Unfortunately, some policy experts are already saying that we run the risk of not achieving them. But others are saying we can – as long as

Picture this scenario: The leadership team of your organization is facing pressure from its board to be more ‘innovative’ and ‘entrepreneurial’ by finding a market-based model to create impact. Not exactly knowing where to start, the leadership team reads a blog post about human-centered design

In this 4th article of the #SDGSandME series, we’re going to explore the effectiveness of philanthropy, and how you can use your giving efforts to help the world reach the Sustainable Development Goals—no matter how small (or big) your wallet is. In previous articles, we

As people increasingly look to experiential learning programs and more international exposure to grow their skills and networks, we thought we’d take a minute to share some of the great benefits of one of the best ways of doing that: Fellowship programs. Check out the

We all want to work at a company that does more good than harm, but it’s not always obvious how to help our companies do that… until now. LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner recently spoke at the Aspen Institute about why business can – and should

Every year, Legatum publishes a new report showing the happiest countries. And every year, people wonder “What really makes me happy?”. When researchers at the London School of Economics examined the relationship between volunteering and measures of happiness, they found the more people volunteered, the

In this #SDGSandME series, we’re exploring how you can help us reach the Sustainable Development Goals through the personal, professional, political and philanthropic aspects of your life – we call them the 4P’s. Today, we’re going to highlight the things you can do in your