Aligning for-profit and nonprofit strategies multiplies the impact of giving

A private foundation’s core business is the thoughtful and strategic giving of grant funds to the nonprofit organizations that will best advance community prosperity. A for-profit company’s core business is driving the success of the enterprise — fulfilling a market need, offering the goods and services that will lead to a healthy bottom line. Yet […]

Entrepreneurs better be good at solving problems

When you boil it down, almost everything an entrepreneur does is rooted in solving some sort of problem. But for some, rather than feeling the excitement of a new challenge, the constant stream of problems has become the dirty work of the business that always seems to land on their doorstep. Progressive overload Continual effort […]

Living through another’s experiences gives new perspective

Imagine that you came home each day to a 64,500-square-foot, three-story manor house with 65 rooms. Now imagine that you didn’t have to clean it. That’d be your reality if you lived in Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, the former home of Frank A. Seiberling, the founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This month’s […]