Save the Children New Zealand has recently launched called Hear Our Voices Values Exchange. It gives all New Zealand children and young people the chance to have their say on issues that matter to them, and allows them to compare their views with what their peers are saying on the same issues, immediately.
Brands like Toms with their “one for one” shoes programme have proven that companies can be both profitable and philanthropic. So why do so many NGO brands stick with a funding model that relies on, well, charity?
Peter Salmon, MD at social innovation company NextPlays, certainly has his doubts about models based on grants and donations as opposed to “financed” business practices. Here are some of his thoughts on why “cause” brands need to stop begging for money and start putting up business cases for financing social change.
