The White House recently launched a new initiative called The Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The aim of the Fund is to identify the highest performing, most impactful, nonprofits around the country, and provide the capital needed to facil...

And observation begins with listening.

This fundamental, but critical, idea was brought back to life for me over dinner with my two Rwandan friends — Patrick and Emery — last night. They are here visiting the States for the fir...

“5 years from now it’s going to be strategy malpractice not to realize that the two sectors (business and social) are now coming together – there are huge market opportunities that weren’t there before.” — Bill Drayton, CEO, Ashoka (...

In a perfect collision of coincidences, the stars have aligned and I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting two new, young, bright minds in the past week. As a journalist turned nonprofiteer – and forever with a healthy dose of foodie in me – it w...

Introducing: The Safe Place

Two Nassau County nonprofits, Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect, have an announcement to make: They’ve moved in together. This relationship has been develop...

We always say that the people we work with here are angels. This time we just started up a project with a new breed: An Angel Superhero.

Her name is Sharon Shapiro, and she is the driving force behind a deeply inspiring and brilliant organizati...

This is a shout out to one of our clients who we think is doing an incredible job of using their brand.

J Street, a lobbying 501(c)4 organization in Washington DC, provides a political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans. The organizat...

Last week I came back from my “conference week”. Enough panels for a lifetime. A week at GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco, and a presentation at SXSW (South by Southwest) in Austin. SXSW expanded in recent years and beyond m...

As a photojournalist I often find myself asking the question: What impact does visual storytelling have on society? As someone who works for a nonprofit, I often ask myself: How much does visual storytelling impact an organization’s abil...

Index Book, a Spain-based company that creates books relevant to the design world, has released its first-ever Basic Logos book. This Book of Inspiration compiles logos from designers around the world, showcasing the basic disciplines...

At its core, branding is all about differentiation. It’s about identifying what makes you unique and then showing that off to the rest of the world. At a time when funding and grant money is increasingly harder to secure, differentiation is...

From branding to online video, every piece of visual communication that a nonprofit puts out should represent its story.

With all the recent advances in photo, video and web technology it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Empax has s...

As the rains poured down and the frigid winds howled, dedicated do-gooders trekked to the 9th floor of 27 W. 24th St. last Thursday night. While the Wednesday night-ers don’t have quite as dramatic a tale, Empax was equally grateful for both...

After months of a very inspiring and eye-opening partnership, Empax and Hunts Point Alliance for Children (HPAC) are proud to announce the launch of HPAC’s new website.

HPAC is a unique, pioneering nonprofit in the South Bronx that works t...

Brace yourselves: event number two is on its way.  The second edition of our Fall workshop series is all about the nonprofit website.

This is a presentation for nonprofit professionals who either don’t have a website, have a website that co...