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Date	Author	Category	Title
Summer 2006	Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento	Nonprofit Management	What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits [Free!] Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations. In this article, 11 executives who have played leadership roles in both for-profits and nonprofits reveal the critical differences between the two, and suggest ways that business and nonprofit leaders can use this information to create a more effective social sector.
Spring 2007	William Foster & Gail Fine	Nonprofit Management	How Nonprofits Get Really Big [Free!] Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.
Spring 2007	Rick Cohen	Philanthropy & Responsible Investing	Review: The Foundation vs. Great Philanthropic Mistakes Some books ought to be read as pairs. Joel L. Fleishman’s and Martin Morse Wooster’s recent offerings are such a duo, offering sometimes diametrically opposed perspectives on philanthropic successes and failures.
Winter 2008	Suzie Boss	Nonprofit Management	Give Away the Store Why Portland’s ReBuilding Center refuses to franchise, but is happy to share.
Spring 2008	Suzie Boss	Environment • Arts, Culture, and Religion • Government	Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.
Spring 2003	Jeffrey L. Bradach	Nonprofit Management	Going to Scale [Free!] The challenge of replicating social programs.
Spring 2003	Ken Yamada		Nonprofits and the News Why a handful of organizations get all the publicity.
Spring 2003	Jan Masaoka		The Effectiveness Trap Funders, government agencies, and donors get lost on the labyrinth.
Spring 2003	SSIR editor	Philanthropy & Responsible Investing	15 Minutes with Susan Berresford President of the Ford Foundation.
Summer 2003	Sacha Litman		The Peer Yardstick Measuring success in franchise nonprofit organizations.
Winter 2003	Vinay Jain	Social Entrepreneurship	As Welcome as Can Be For Manna, the path to affordable housing runs though a peer-support club.
Winter 2003	Andrew Nelson	Nonprofit Management	For Richer, or For Poorer? Low-income residents of poor towns are underserved by nonprofits.
Winter 2003	Chip Heath		Loud and Clear [Free!] Crafting messages that stick—What nonprofits can learn from urban legends.
Winter 2003	Abraham Nachbaur	Philanthropy & Responsible Investing	Going Overboard [Free!] Are foundations paying trustees too much money?
Winter 2003	Tony Proscio & Clara Miller	Nonprofit Management	Steppenwolf’s New Stage A theater ensemble transforms into a company with a bottom line.
Spring 2004	Christopher St. John	Social Entrepreneurship	The Humanitarian Divide [Free!] A Cambodian ‘nonprofit company’ peddles digitization—with a social edge.
Spring 2004	Gerald Burstyn	Social Entrepreneurship	Work Works For Ready, Willing & Able, finding a home starts with cleaning the streets.
Spring 2004	Andrew Nelson		Donation Cannibalization When nonprofits earn taxable income, private donors give less.
Spring 2004	Rosanne Siino		Donor Satisfaction The importance of social identity in giving.
Spring 2004	Kimberly Solheim		A Healthy Advantage Nonprofit providers are more cost-effective.
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