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| Spring 2003 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Features |
Sparking Nonprofit Innovation
To innovate, nonprofits must do things that clash with common but misguided beliefs about managing. Here are some counterintuitive ideas to stimulate innovation in your organization.
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| Spring 2004 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship |
Scaling Social Impact
Strategies for spreading social innovations.
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| Spring 2004 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health |
Hungry Heart Association
A maverick reorganization by an American Heart Association affiliate paves the way for fundraising success.
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| Summer 2004 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Environment • Civil Society |
Making Change
Why does the social sector need social movements?
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| Spring 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Poverty • Health |
High-End Healthcare
Though they have their opponents, boutique-style services can subsidize care for the poor.
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| Fall 2005 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
Beware the Lone Genius
Innovation depends on social networks, not solo brains.
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| Winter 2005 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business |
All Fired Up
How an insurance company helps its workers support their local fire departments.
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| Spring 2006 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment |
Act on Facts, Not Faith [Free!]
How management can follow medicine's lead and rely on evidence, not on half-truths.
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| Spring 2006 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship |
In the Mood for Creativity
Happiness, not melancholy, helps sparks innovation.
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| Summer 2006 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
All That Jazz
Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.
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| Summer 2006 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Global Issues • Education • Health • Environment • Human Rights |
Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies
Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most.
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| Fall 2006 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Leadership |
Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary – the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. The problem with focusing so much attention on the individual entrepreneur is that it neglects to recognize and support thousands of other individuals, groups, and organizations that are crafting solutions to troubles around the globe.
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| Fall 2006 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
The Perils of Getting Big
Larger social service organizations may result in less innovation.
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| Fall 2006 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Health • Civil Society • Religion & Culture |
The Oldest Profession
How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Networks for Good Works
Most people think of networking as a means for advancing their own self-interest. But successful social innovators take a different tack, nurturing close ties between members and infusing their networks with a common set of values. As a result, their networks power both personal transformations and large-scale social changes.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Global Issues • Poverty |
The People’s IPO [Free!]
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Government • Government Programs |
Government by Numbers
How CitiStat’s hard data and straight talk saved Baltimore.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment |
Review: Capitalism 3.0
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
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| Spring 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations |
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition [Free!]
How do you define social entrepreneurship?
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| Spring 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Education • Arts |
15 Minutes with Kevin Johnson [Free!]
SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills sat down with former NBA superstar Kevin Johnson to discuss how he's revitalizing his old inner-city neighborhood.
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