Link Roundup 11/27

For the past five years, over 400 youth welcomed the New Year on a train circling around India. While hot daily showers are a rarity, these motivated youth have nonetheless signed themselves up to earn a spot on the two-week train ride out of 17,000 applicants.

Following is a guest post by my good friend Nancy Schwartz, Strategist at GettingAttention.org. Follow Nancy on Twitter and Facebook. ---------------------- December is the hands-down most powerful month to fundraise and to strengthen relationships for the year to come. So stop cranking it out right now-for one to two hours-and start your last-chance marketing audit to...

Being approachable and talking to stakeholders are among the things that help charity chief executives engage when using social media Guardian Professional, When Matt Collins and I launched the search to find the top charity chief executives on social media, we were thrilled by the response.

Image Credit: Nick Onken/Pencils of Promise Adam Braun remembers a night a few years back when he was at a fancy, New York City rooftop soiree having an extended chat with a venture capitalist. About 20 minutes into the conversation, the investor asked Braun about his profession.

NATIONAL PBS BROADCAST ON INDEPENDENT LENS - MONDAY JUNE 17! PREVIEW OF MAP YOUR WORLD - LAUNCHING FALL 2013! "Blazes with a will to change India's slums" -The Village Voice "...Refreshing...Thoughtful..." -Indiewire "Inspiring" -The Hollywood Reporter "Tastefully observational...high drama" -Slant Magazine "Compelling" -Yahoo!

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Social Enterprise Network's daily digest. Our space to tell you the latest news, advice and analysis from the sector. * Today on the network, Claudia Cahalane asks whether fan ownership is the answer to struggling football clubs.

How organizations can use design to better implement, share, and expand on knowledge. Anyone who regularly attends professional conferences or tries to keep up with the overwhelming volume of relevant published work available in the digital age has experienced the challenges of retention and application.

Social enterprises do not collaborate well. This frustrates me because teams are often the only way to assemble the knowledge and capacity required to complete complex tasks. Collaboration is more effective than "capacity building" and "better infrastructure support", we've spent hundreds of millions of pounds on that but not changed behaviours and the big breakthroughs remain to be found.

My new job is forcing me to confront my arithmophobia/dyscalculia (I'm not sure which it actually is-basically any kind of numbers or math freaks me out) as well as my loathing of Excel and I admit it's almost pleasurable. Maybe I've been too hasty totally dismissing numbers from my life for so long.

Is the social impact bond model better suited to environmental issues? Social impact bonds (SIBs), or pay-for-success contracts, are designed to help governments finance social outcomes by way of outside investment and have gained significant attention over the past few years.

With charitable donations growing slowly, philanthropic groups are using the power of the Internet to expand their fundraising to a mass audience at a much lower cost than traditional methods. By Jeremiah Hall, Correspondent / November 25, 2013 With donations growing slowly, if at all, US charities are pulling out a new tool to help fill their coffers: a mass appeal that might ask you for only $5.