While the term “impact investing” (or social capital) has garnered substantial attention in recent years, the more traditional field of microfinance, still by far the largest share of impact investments, gets less attention yet has decades of experience doing social capital. Here are a few of lessons from the micro finance sector worth reviewing as …
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Frequently Asked Questions About Peer Coaching Groups
Peer Coaching Groups: Your FAQs Answered We assume that you have already read the information on the page Start a Virtual Support Group to Help With Stresses of COVID-19. The information on that page would answer all of the typical questions about planning and operating a support group. However, the following questions still tend to …
Fighting back with hardball crisis management after a negative review Tesla Motors is at the forefront of the electric car revolution, but a controversial review by the NY Times has created quite a bit of turbulence around the brand over the past couple of weeks. Basically, NY Times reviewer John Broder took the Tesla Model …
Sometimes it takes a crisis to solve one Millions of gallons of radioactive goop are threatening to leak into the ground of eastern Washington state, and it’s not the fun, ninja-turtle-creating kind. Here’s a quote, from a SeattlePI article by Shannon Dininny: The long-delayed cleanup of the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site became the subject …
Keep your ear to the ground and catch the need for crisis management early on The earlier you detect a building crisis, the more effective your crisis management is able to be, but how can you catch a crisis that’s barely beginning to bubble up? These days, social media serves as the world-wide watercooler, fostering …
Short and Sweet: The Ideal Crisis Communication Messaging Mold crisis communication management messaging to fit a Tweet and reap the benefits. Today you’re more likely to catch a breaking story on Twitter than on the evening news. Both professional and amateur (read: everyone else) reporters are using Twitter to share and discuss current events every …
Crisis management means staying vigilant against potential threats A man in the United Kingdom is the 11th reported patient to be suffering from a new “SARS-like” virus and health officials are trying to determine if the virus is being passed from person to person. The virus was first reported in September when a Qatari man …
Did Carnival learn anything from a similar 2010 incident? As passengers stranded on Carnival Cruise’s Triumph share stories of disgusting conditions, including cabin carpets soaked with water and urine, overflowing toilets, sewage leaking down walls and four-hour lines for hot food, one has to wonder just how seriously Carnival takes its crisis management planning. The …
