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Nonprofit Management

 

Innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders better manage their organization

 

How Leaders Encourage Innovation

Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
KaBOOM! How One
Man Built a Movement
to Save Play
Darell Hammond

Scaling Play

KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond

Reviewed By Paul Connolly | Fall 2011
 
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The Networked Nonprofit

Organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.

By Jane Wei-Skillern & Sonia Marciano | 7 | Spring 2008
 

The Challenge of Organizational Learning

A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.

By Katie Smith Milway & Amy Saxton | 6 | Summer 2011
 
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Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results

Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.

By Nadim Matta & Peter Morgan | Summer 2011
 

Thriving on Failure

Engineers Without Borders’ new website, Admitting Failure, gives new life to “good failures.” It aims to help organizations learn from others’ mistakes.

By Suzie Boss | Summer 2011
 
NONPROFIT
SUSTAINABILITY:
Making Strategic
Decisions for
Financial Viability
Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka,
& Steve Zimmerman

The Holy Grail for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability by Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka & Steve Zimmerman

Reviewed By Jim Schorr | 2 | Summer 2011
 

Making the News

The media introduce social movements to the masses, but how do social movements make it into the media?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Summer 2011
 
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For Love or Lucre

A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.

By Jim Fruchterman | 23 | Spring 2011
 
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A New Type of Hybrid

Social entrepreneurs have taken the hybrid model to a new level, crafting it into a single structure that can operate as both a for-profit and a nonprofit.

By Allen R. Bromberger | 9 | Spring 2011