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Hot Residential Market a Sudden Boon to Some NYC Nonprofit Property Owners
The Nonprofit Quarterly has written a lot about the problems caused for many nonprofits by owning their buildings. Even in today’s newswires, there is a story about serious building problems among a...
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Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Prepare for Life without the Organization
The musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra seem to be progressing along parallel tracks: one being their discussions with the Minnesota Orchestral Association, the other looking more and more like...
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Community Servings of Boston: A Successful Counterintuitive Approach to...
Just as Community Servings of Boston was facing increased demand and paying higher costs to feed more people, they were confronted by an economic downturn. How did they make it through? Careful...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Nonprofits in California’s Budget Surplus
CalNonprofits’ Sacramento lobbyist lays it all out for the Golden State’s nonprofits.
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Detroit Symphony Doing Well after Strike Resolution
Classical music companies are struggling across the United States to remake their business models. The Hawaii Symphony, the New York Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony have all...
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Why a Living Wage Is Your Business
A down and dirty business case for paying a living, not a minimum, wage, and a nudge to the sector to take the issue on.
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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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Entrepreneurship Run Amok: Seattle’s $2,000 Homelessness Tour
A so-called “social entrepreneur” in Seattle wants to offer tours of Seattle’s homeless life for $2,000 a pop. Really?
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Doctors’ Cooperatives as Social Enterprise: A Transferable Model?
A tradition of general practitioner cooperatives in the UK indicates how much we might be able to learn from looking abroad for models of social enterprise.
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What Do Social Enterprises Have to Do with the Construction Industry?
As more companies take an interest in sourcing services from social enterprise groups, the Wates Group has seized the opportunity to establish the UK building industry’s first national brokering service.
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Antisocial Social Enterprises and Insights on Real Collaboration
An anonymous “social entrepreneur” shares the secrets behind successful collaboration.
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Death, Monks, and Social Enterprise
The word of the U.S. Supreme Court “puts the final nail in the coffin” of the attempts by the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Homes to stop the Benedictine monks of St. Joseph Abbey from...
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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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Is Social Enterprise the “Child Star” of the Sector?
This op-ed questions the degree to which social enterprises are given a pass on substance metrics. How much of what is out there is as much hype as substance?
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Proof that Social Enterprise Can Succeed as It Fails
The Montreal-based nonprofit that helped established many big-city bike-sharing programs has declared bankruptcy. What are the takeaways?
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What will Toms Shoes’ Leader Bring to Lululemon?
One potential benefit of running a successful social enterprise is a personal brand with a higher social consciousness. Did that weigh on the scales of Lululemon’s new choice for CEO?
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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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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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