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How To Befriend The Boss On Facebook

This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a while, and as soon as I saw this video, I was inspired.

To set a little context, it was just about a year ago when we gathered as usual for our weekly staff meeting. As we took our seats my boss came in and proclaimed, “I joined Facebook over the weekend, and I think the rest of you should do the same – oh, and please friend me.” Read more »

Today’s guest blogger is Zach Maurin, an AmeriCorps alum who co-founded and co-directs ServeNext.org. Recently, ServeNext completed a 30-city, 60-day Greyhound bus tour across America to unite citizens to advocate for the expansion of national service programs. The tour was just featured by the Chronicle of Philanthropy: Road Trip With a Mission: Expanding National Service

Eighteen months ago I started an organization, ServeNext.org, with a couple of friends to help put national service expansion (AmeriCorps, City Year, Teach for America, etc.) atop our country’s to-do list. Our strategy, from afar, is simple: unite a critical mass of constituents who, through collective action, can advance national service legislation.

Starting ServeNext poses a lot of challenges that I expect and welcome: strategic planning, fundraising, and the like. But there is one challenge that I did not expect: keeping up with and strategizing around the social web. Read more »

The Causes application on Facebook celebrated its one-year anniversary last week. I had a chance to catch up with Joe Green and Sean Parker, the founders of Causes (previously known as Project Agape), this week at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy conference. Read more »

Today is World Malaria Day. And you may be wondering why that’s relevant on a blog about Millennials. Malaria is a disease that the world has known how to beat for more than a century, yet each year an astounding 350 to 500 million new cases are reported and over 1 million malaria-related deaths occur. Read more »