Melinda Gates makes a provocative case: What can nonprofits learn from mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, whose global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- an ice-cold Coke? Maybe this model could work for distributing health care, vaccinations, sanitation, even condoms ...

How can nonprofits accelerate their impact and move the needle on intractable problems? Looking to bring the urgency of a profit motive to every initiative, inclusive finance promoter Tolu Oyekan shows how scalable, data-driven solutions are expanding access to banking and financial services across Africa -- and shares the mindset that can help ...

How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research more accessible to everyone? Education equalizer and violist Matthew Garcia thinks one way to remove barriers is to create free, virtual education programs that connect talented young minds to the resources they need to thrive in their future career...

In a globe-trotting career that has spanned corporations, governments, nonprofits and philanthropy, Rosita Najmi has often found herself translating among them. Instead of focusing on leadership style, she makes the case for becoming fluent in the languages of leadership, explaining how it can help you adapt to audiences across industries and co...

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive problems like climate change and access to water. Why? Because when business solves a problem, it makes a profit -- ...

Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (...

Businesses have the resources to make contributions to the collective good. Here, TED Talks on what can happen when corporations make saving the environment and helping people a priority, plus talks on how business principles might even be more effective for creating change than non-profit models.

Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, prior to taking over leadership of TED. Co-founder Richard Saul Wurman was leaving, and TED's future was in the balance. He seeks to persuade TEDsters that what was then a for-profit conference had a secure future as an idea-based nonprofit endeavor.

Michael E. Porter wrote the books on modern competitive strategy for business. Now he is thinking deeply about the intersection between society and corporate interests.

Dan Pallotta created two huge charity initiatives -- AIDS Rides bicycle journeys and Breast Cancer 3-Day events. These initiatives raised $108 million for HIV/AIDS and $194 million for breast cancer. Both had their best years in 2002 ... and then Pallotta's nonprofit went out of business. In the final session of TED2013, Pallotta shares w...

Rosita Najmi helps companies drive equitable social, environmental and economic development.

Mark Edwards is the cofounder and CEO of Upstream USA, a nonprofit working to expand contraceptive access in the United States.

Clint Brewer helps leaders in the public and private sectors achieve their goals.

Gavin McCormick is a cofounder of the Climate TRACE coalition, which combines satellites and artificial intelligence to detect human-caused greenhouse gases from all major sources.

The co-founder of Friends of the High Line, Robert Hammond helped lead the effort to build an elevated park on an abandoned railway line in Manhattan.

Johanna Figueira is a strategist and digital marketer with Wells Fargo. She is also one of the co-organizers of Code for Venezuela, an organization that leverages technology to help nonprofits in Venezuela.

Kara Logan Berlin helps people and organizations accelerate fundraising, getting essential resources into the hands of visionaries on the front lines of real change.

David Blood is a founding and senior partner of Generation Investment Management, which focuses on long-term, environmentally and socially conscious projects.

About this event: Defining Climate Solutions | Countdown is a bold, global movement to find ways to rapidly shift to a world with net zero greenhouse emissions and tackle the climate crisis. Communities, schools, universities, businesses, nonprofits, and city representative offices are invited to participate. Understanding that now is the time to take back power ...

TED: What advice would you give to women thinking about entering the nonprofit sector? “My advice to women entering the nonprofit sector is to take every opportunity to get experience -- research and donate to effective nonprofits that you care about; be a curious student of the sector; and recognize that many, many types of skills are needed....

Darren Walker is a leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

Creating wide-scale change isn’t easy. It takes incredible passion around an issue, and smart ideas on how to move the needle and, hopefully, improve people’s lives. It requires bottomless energy, a dedicated team, an extraordinary amount of hope. And, of course, it demands real resources. TED would like to help, on the last part at least...

About this event: Entrepreneurship, innovation and motivation are the three main topics, divided into 3 sessions. Being the 8th of March the International Women's Day, the event organization will highlight female speakers. At the event this year there we expect around 20 speakers from different backgrounds including business, technology, entertainment, the arts...

About this event: This event will bring together diverse youth speakers ages 13-21 in the greater Seattle area to create and express their ideas, talents and work towards a better future. Attendees and participants will learn about themselves and their community through youth-led, hands-on, sensory experiences offered before, during and after the event by nonprof...

About this event: Military spouses face one of the highest unemployment rates of any demographic in America at nearly 30%. While also facing an incredible under-employment problem. The military, government, nonprofits, corporations, and Department of Defense are spending millions to solve this issue, yet it continues to climb. Let's discuss why they are missing t...

Dubbed "the woman who redefined man" by her biographer, Jane Goodall has changed our perceptions of primates, people and the connection between the two.

Audrey Choi is a thought leader on how finance can be harnessed to address public policy challenges.

Catalina Lotero's work illuminates how design shapes our world.

President of Monitor Institute, Katherine Fulton is also a strategist, author, teacher and speaker working for social change.