quick post: change [jobs], change [textbooks], and more change [needed in the non-profit sector]

Three posts from Mike Connery's eminent Millennial Generation-blog, Future Majority, that I've been sitting on fir a while, so I'll just give it to you all at once.

First, social entrepreneur website Change.org launches a progressive job clearinghouse, for all your job-search needs, at Jobs for Change.

Second, back in the bad-old-days of the Bush Era, social entrepreneur's tried thinking of ways to make it easier for consumers to support progressive businesses, the pinnacle being Advomatic's now-defunct BuyBlue.org. The excellent progressive California grassroots group Courage Campaign has flipped the strategy, taking advantage of an Amazon program that allows you to support the Courage Campaign's efforts to get marriage equality and a democratic budget process, among other things, in the Golden State, while buying your textbooks on the cheap at the same time: Textbooks4Change.

Finally, karlomarcello critiques controversial author Dan Pallota's assertion that the non-profit sector needs to start acting like the for-profit sector in order to compete for talent. I planned on looking into this debate more closely to weigh in on it, as I recently saw the publicly-available numbers on salaries of executive directors at top non-profits (the range is perhaps the most astonishing part). But I was brooding about what to write about Ron Takaki instead, so the research didn't happen. Perhaps if someone else writes something interesting on the topic...