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Nonprofits Webinars

Our on-demand SSIR Live! webinars are offered every 4-6 weeks, and feature the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s most provocative and important topics. The registration fee is $49 per 2011/2012 webinars, or $19 for 2009/2010 webinars, and includes on-demand access for 12 months—so if you missed one, you can still register and view it at your convenience.

The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector

Presented by Christopher Stone, Nathalie Kylander, & Emily Brew | Apr 25, 2012

Join Christopher Stone and Nathalie Kylander Kylander from Harvard Kennedy School and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and Emily Brew from the Nike Foundation and Girl Effect, as they discuss the changing role of brand in the nonprofit sector, and describe a new conceptual framework they have created—Nonprofit Brand IDEA—in which “IDEA” stands for brand integrity, brand democracy, brand ethics, and brand affinity. This new framework is designed to help nonprofit leaders create brands that contribute to sustaining their organization’s social impact, serving their organization’s mission, and staying true to their organization’s values and culture. The webinar will present the results of that research and the Nonprofit Brand IDEA framework.

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Building the Right Funding Model for Your Organization

Presented by Peter Kim and Gihani Fernando | Nov 30, 2011

Nonprofit funding strategy and financial sustainability are central to creating a vibrant and effective sector. Yet our understanding about these issues remains far less sophisticated than our understanding of programs. Too often, conventional wisdom, such as “diversification is good,” substitutes for thoughtful planning. Building upon years of primary research and consulting experience with dozens of nonprofit clients, The Bridgespan Group has developed an approach for how an organization can identify and develop a funding model that will allow it to achieve its programmatic aspirations. In this webinar Peter Kim, a manager in Bridgespan’s New York City office, and Gihani Fernando, a manager in Bridgespan’s San Franscisco office, will provide practical guidance on the steps you need to take to create a funding model for your organization, and review the types of decisions and tradeoffs that nonprofit leaders need to make along the way.

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Implementing Organizational Learning

Presented by Katie Smith Milway and Ann Goggins Gregory | Nov 09, 2011

Join Katie Smith Milway and Ann Goggins Gregory, both from The Bridgespan Group, for a lively interactive dialogue about how your organization, small or large, can bridge the gaps between goals, incentives, and processes when it comes to organizational learning. Milway and Goggins will present examples of nonprofits that have successfully implemented organizational learning, such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), World Vision, the Arizona Children’s Association, and the Nature Conservancy. The dialogue will be based in part on Milway’s recent article about creating a knowledge-sharing process (see “The Challenges of Organizational Learning,” Summer 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review), and Gregory will present findings from a learning lab on incentives and processes that she and Milway held during the Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute in September.

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Nonprofit, For-profit, or Something in Between?

Presented by Jim Fruchterman | Sep 22, 2011

Social entrepreneurs who want to start a new venture quickly confront an important question: What type of legal structure should I create? Should I start a traditional nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between? This is not a simple question to answer. Join veteran social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman, founder and CEO of Benetech, as he guides you through the issues you need to consider before choosing an attorney. He emphasizes that a legal structure is simply a tool for accomplishing your goals, and explains that first a social entrepreneur must explore four basic issues: the motivation for starting the venture, the market being targeted, how capital will be raised, and what type of control is wanted. He then reviews the five basic legal structures and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of each. Fruchterman has unique insight into legal structures, having started successful and unsuccessful for-profit and nonprofit ventures.

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Collective Impact: Creating Large-Scale Social Change

Presented by FSG | Jan 19, 2011

The potential to create large-scale social change exists when multiple organizations can combine their efforts. Join as FSG’s John Kania and Mark Kramer speak with Strive Partnership’s Jeff Edmondson about the conditions of a collective impact initiative and present their argument that large-scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

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Working Wikily: Social Networks for Social Change

Presented by the Monitor Institute | Jun 08, 2010

There is a fundamental shift now occurring in the way people think, form groups, and do their work. The focus is moving from organizations to networks, and new tools are enabling more collective ways of working. Join us as the Monitor Institute’s Heather McLeod Grant and Diana Scearce discuss this, suggesting ways for organizations to get started working wikily.

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The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle

Presented by the Bridgespan Group | May 12, 2010

More than 65 percent of nonprofit leaders say they are cutting overhead to get through these tough times. This is alarming, given that most organizations already skimp on critical infrastructure and capacity investments that are necessary to deliver results. Join the Bridgespan Group’s Ann Goggins Gregory and Don Howard as they discuss the dynamics of this vicious cycle of overhead costs.

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From Nonprofit Partnerships to Mergers: Restructuring for Success

Presented by David La Piana, President, La Piana Consulting | Apr 06, 2010

In the midst of worldwide economic turmoil, funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to consider merging. This urge to merge is showing no signs of abating in 2010. But mergers are risky business. Nonprofits should consider a variety of ways to work together. Join David La Piana in an engaging webinar that offers practical how-tos for nonprofit leaders considering partnering with other nonprofits. He draws on his and his colleagues’ experiences facilitating some 200 nonprofit restructurings (including mergers, alliances, and collaborations).

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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models

Presented by William Foster, Partner, Bridgespan Group | Dec 02, 2009

Listen to William Foster share important principles that nonprofit leaders can use to help them achieve their organization’s long-term fundraising goals. These principles include concentrating on particular sources of funding and taking advantage of the natural matches that exist between different types of nonprofit work and the different types of funding likely to support that work.

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