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Three Tips from 3 Established Social Enterprises
Choose your friends wisely, be honest and straightforward, and produce great quality—three suggestions for social entrepreneurs (and just about anyone else).
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MBA Programs Increasingly Incorporate Social Goals
Students seeking to “do good” are turning to MBA programs, not just nonprofit management programs. MBA programs are adjusting their curriculums to reflect the changing demands of students.
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Revitalization Through Social Enterprise: Mouraria of Lisbon
The mayor of Portugal’s capital city is fighting against the nation’s devastated economy by encouraging and funding economic action by coalition groups in a hard-hit neighborhood.
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Why This Small Social Enterprise Failed
Despite the best of intentions, Prairie Harvest Mental Health will close the small luncheonette it operated in Grand Forks, Michigan. Here’s one view as to why the 4th Street Eatery met its end.
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Legal Aid Takes a Step up in the 2014 Appropriations Deal
For the first time in a long time, the budget of the federal Legal Services Corporation is seeing a small but noteworthy uptick. However, this increase in FY2014 is still millions of dollars short of...
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This Organization’s Demise Has Lessons for All Nonprofits
When nonprofits adhere too strongly to the notion that boards should keep their distance from management, it can lead to irretrievable losses.
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Due Process Rights for Nonprofits? Don’t Count on It
What the heck was behind the shuttering of 15 behavioral health organizations in New Mexico last summer? Due process and transparency are definitely not the watchwords of this situation!
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Doing Business with the Government: Administrative Challenges Faced by...
Nonprofits face many administrative challenges on a day-to-day basis, ranging from managing donations and fundraising relationships to making sure the bills are paid. However, those organizations...
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Will Detroit Foundations Save the Nation’s Largest Black Museum, Too?
Detroit’s Wright Museum houses the nation’s largest African-American historical collection. Will the Wright also be saved in the Detroit fiscal bailout, or will it be a museum “stepchild” overlooked in...
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Social Enterprise: Making the Choice Between For-Profit and Nonprofit
As ThinkImpact grew, its founder, Saul Garlick, had to make a tough decision: remain a nonprofit, or change to a for-profit model? To do so, he had to consider some key elements: ownership,...
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Whither Sustainability? Well, It Depends
Grants and donations are not, in and of themselves, less sustainable than selling goods and services when it comes to raising money for social enterprise groups. Or so David Floyd contends in his blog...
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Social Enterprise, Squared
The coworking movement—which, like the nonprofit sector, values collaboration and community building—is gaining traction within the social enterprise movement.
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Urban League CEO Resigns—But That’s Not the End of the Story
An executive resigning immediately before the results of an imposed audit are released, employees who have gone extended periods without pay…this is the scene faced by the board of the Urban League of...
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From Black Boxes to Random Acts of Culture: Opera Companies Find New Ways to...
Necessity just may be the mother of new opera, as companies around the globe experiment with smaller venues, opera in unexpected places and other innovative ways to nurture new audiences and emerging...
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Washington Post Diversions Piece: What it Really Means
Sometimes organizations perpetrate fraud, sometimes they are victims. In the Washington Post’s investigative report on “diversions” of nonprofit assets, the nonprofits involve look more like victims...
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Newseum, Like Many Museums, Unable to Move Beyond the Economic Crisis
The Newseum, one of Washington, D.C.’s more recent museums, finds itself cutting staff and spinning off programs in order to stay afloat as their endowment shrinks. The unfortunate results of these...
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Using Outcomes to Measure Nonprofit Success
When it comes to judging the success of a nonprofit, the truly important data are seldom found in the organization’s financial statements.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Dinged for Inadequate Oversight of Federal Money
The DOJ’s Office of Inspector General found Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in material non-compliance regarding $23.2M in grants.
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With the Clock Ticking, Student Loan Rate Becomes Increasingly Politicized
A proposed Senate deal to lower student loan rates fell apart last week, leaving it uncertain whether a new deal can be patched together for students before the August recess.
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Late on that State Report? Prepare to Pay the Piper!
The state treasurer of Louisiana is preparing to start debt collection proceedings against 36 area nonprofits that received tax monies but have not complied with reporting requirements.
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