AI & Technology

With today’s modern technology, we now have the ability to manage all aspects of our grant-giving, including the ability to measure effectiveness, right at our fingertips.

Time, energy, and effectiveness. These are three vital resources for nonprofit organizations. The challenge of reporting compliance consumes all three and distracts them from their purpose. Is there a way to keep them from drowning in that sea of paperwork?

Many corporations are looking to utilize online solutions, unaware of the hidden cost of implementation when selecting a grants management system.

Depending on the size of your company and the industry you’re in, it can sometimes be difficult to determine what corporate giving route would be the most successful. Although there are countless corporate giving programs out there, there are four types that stand out.

Data is how you measure your impact, but access and interpretation are the only way you can make those measurements. The options to put this data to work are growing. What do you need? Here’s the corporate grantmaker’s guide to data.

Novartis 2015 CR highlights: Launched Novartis Access, a portfolio of 15 medicines to treat the main noncommunicable diseases in lower-income countries at a cost of USD 1 per treatment per month; Provided medicine to 66 million patients through access programs; Reached 7.6 million people through social business initiatives in India, Kenya, Vietnam and Indonesia.


•Launched a new Group-wide program to ensure our ethical standards are firmly embedded in our business practices

Food waste and loss is a big deal. About one third of global food production (around 30 to 40 percent) is wasted or lost every year, according to the UN Food and and Agriculture Organization.

There’s a Polish proverb that goes: “If the farmer is poor, then so is the whole country”. It’s a problem that Tetra Pak is highly aware of – it recognizes the link and knows that for it to succeed and grow, it needs the markets in which it operates, to do the same.

Maria Medina-Alva, 22, is the president of Cal Poly Pomona’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. She’s also president of the Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honors Society.