article thumbnail

Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Those already exploring the metaverse can attend live concerts and meet with government officials. Big Tech, banks, corporations, and governments worldwide are betting big on the metaverse and its future. A visit to the Second Life Marketplace can help you better understand the concept of shopping for NFTs in the Metaverse.

article thumbnail

Should you thank your donors with a gift?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Social norms are governed by values of community selflessness and altruism. When we are primed to give based on social norms, we donate because we want to make a difference and help others. Market norms are governed by calculated self-interest. They also discovered happier people help others more, and they give more.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

SVB, GPT, and the social sector

Philanthropy 2173

Speaking of incomplete information, Time Magazine is running a story describing how some of the biggest names in Effective Altruism knew about the financial shenanigans of their most famous, duplicitous member, Sam Bankman-Fried. You don’t have one ?) That’s about all we can guess is coming from these two recent events. Strange times ahead.

article thumbnail

Pro-Black Organizations Lead the Way for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

In fact, according to findings from a recent APA survey of 1,500 employees across for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors, more than 80 percent of adult workers in the US will look for workplaces that are conducive to their mental health.

Health 122
article thumbnail

Liberating the Media

NonProfit Quarterly

9 It is a kind of interdependence, closer to altruism than to charity—a societal reciprocity. 21 The New Deal era, too, encouraged a shared work ethos—and a wave of collective businesses were named “self-help cooperatives”—a truer version of self-help than what we have today. 44 But that’s part of what makes it so necessary.

article thumbnail

Dr. James explains why sustainable giving starts by answering, “Do we have a shared future?”

iMarketSmart

Without this, reciprocal altruism fails. Capacity for reciprocity in nature: Strangers vs. neighbors In nature, reciprocal altruism starts with the same question: Do we have a shared future? (In Without this shared future, reciprocal helping disappears. Reciprocal altruism starts with this question: Do we have a shared future?

article thumbnail

What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This theory relates to what American economist James Andreoni calls impure altruism , the inherent tension between philanthropy and self-interest. In Judaism, the practice of tzedakah is an ethical duty to give in a just and merciful way to help those in need. Some constituents and critics view this as a lapse in ethical judgment.

Ethics 122