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| Summer 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Global Issues • Economic Development • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Case Study |
The Profit in Nonprofit [Free!]
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
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| Fall 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Cause Marketing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Altruism • Business • Socially Responsible Business |
Catalytic Philanthropy [Free!]
Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs is “catalytic philanthropy”—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors.
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| Fall 2009 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Nonprofit Leadership |
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle [Free!]
A vicious cycle is leaving nonprofits so hungry for decent infrastructure that they can barely function as organizations—let alone serve their beneficiaries. The cycle starts with funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much running a nonprofit costs, and results in nonprofits’ misrepresenting their costs while skimping on vital systems—acts that feed funders’ skewed beliefs. To break the nonprofit starvation cycle, funders must take the lead.
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| Fall 2009 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Global Issues • Health • Arts • Civil Society |
Recreating Fine Arts Institutions
The fine arts in America are on a perilous path. Attendance at opera, theater, jazz, symphony, and ballet performances has dropped precipitously in recent decades. Just as worrisome, the median age of people attending these events has increased dramatically. If the fine arts are to survive as a living, creative, and significant force in American life, arts institutions need to radically recreate themselves.
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| Spring 2010 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofits • Measuring Social Impact • Philanthropy • Features |
The Power of Theories of Change
Improving the lives of disadvantaged populations requires proven theories of change.
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| Spring 2010 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Reviews |
A Handbook for Change [Free!]
SWITCH: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
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