Articles
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
(Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others. Read more.
Ancient Tradition of Giving Reborn (Turkish Daily News)- To help alleviate consumer claustrophobia, building technology for the modern shopping malls has become more and more advanced, and Panora is leading the way into this new world of shopping centers. Panora has been constructed with an emphasis on new materials and green space. Read more.
The History of Charity Foundations (Turkish Daily News) - The concept of setting up a foundation, or 'vakif', is founda in very early Islamic lands. The idea is attributed to the Prophet Muhammed in advice he gave about the use of land for charitable purposes and Sultan Fatih Mehmet is another example of a founder of a foundation from the Ottoman history. Read more.
Health on Wheels to Farm Workers (Turkish Daily News)- The Sabanci Foundation Grant Program led the Sanliurfa's university to launch a project to bring mobile health services to seasonal agriculture workers. Now, nearly 600 households in the Hayati Harrani quarter of Sanliurfa are visited and many of these residents are provided health services. Imagine a city where three out of ten people leave the city for eight months every year. Read more.
A Glass of Organic Milk in Kelkit (Turkish Daily News) - The Aydin Dogan Foundation has built a vocational school in Kelkit, affiliated with Erzincan University, offering a two-year pre-university education to provide businesses and industry with intermediary technical personnel. Read more. 
Cradle to Grave Care Drives Charity (Turkish Daily News) - People in Bolu are born in his maternity hospital, study in his schools, undergo treatment in the hospitals he built and grow old in his rest homes; people live with Baysal throughout their lives from birth to death. Read more.
Better Parenting is the Aim of ACEV (Turkish Daily News) - The Father Support Program (FSP), first started some ten years ago to provide fathers with training that increases their level of knowledge of child development, now seeks to furnish them with communications skills, and consequently causes them to adapt a more democratic attitude. Read more.
A Look at Turkey's Evolving Charity Law (Turkish Daily News) - Foundations can establish corporations or become partners in businesses to promote their aims and increase the benefit of their foundation on the condition they register this information with the General Directorate of Charitable Foundations. Read more.
