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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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What the Heck is “The Serendipity Economy,” and Why Should We Care?
The insistence on predictive metrics and working with the proven side by side with an interest in innovation leaves many wondering what the heck funders are on about. This blog post from HBR states...
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Does Impact Investment Signal A Paradigm Shift?
Impact investing is very appealing. It provides a financial return on investment and accomplishes a social mission. But is it the paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for?
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Measure for Measure: The Nonprofit Impact Conversation Continues
The “overhead myth” has at last been debunked, and it now seems there’s no nonprofit Holy Grail, either. Which is not to say the sector doesn’t have great stories to tell about outcomes and impact—it’s...
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AG: Motor City Can’t Sell Masterworks to Pay Down Debt
According to Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, Detroit can’t sell works of art from the Detroit Institute of Arts to solve its financial difficulties, even if the city is the owner of the art.
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Three organizations that serve as evaluators and analysts in the nonprofit world have come together to caution against the tendency to overweight overhead when judging grantees.
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Coaching as a Capacity-Building Tool: An Interview with Bill Ryan
For-profits tend to accept the benefits of coaching as a given. Nonprofits, on the other hand, question whether or not coaching actually works, and are more concerned with return on investment. But, as...
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New Study: Low Nonprofit Overhead Does Not = Greater Efficiency
Research reiterates that the focus nonprofits’ overhead costs as a proxy for worthiness is misguided.
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Medium-Sized Charities Most Vulnerable During Recession
UK’s New Philanthropy Group CEO predicts recession-related closures of mid-sized charities, but will the shakeout help or hurt the nonprofit sector?
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The High Hidden Costs of One Organization’s Fundraising
This article spotlights the shocking degree to which operational costs and infrastructure—and sometimes oddly unrelated spending—can devour the donor dollar.
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