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My last few posts have focused on the downturn in the economy and how it already is, or soon might, affect the social sector. It seems to be a topic on everyone’s mind. I wrote an article that was just published today in Texas Nonprofits online magazine, entitled, “Social Innovation Provides Hope in the Uncertainty,” […]
While everyone is thinking and worrying about the economic crisis and the potential detrimental effects on the nonprofit sector, an idea occurs to me. With the continuing volatility in the stock market and a dark economic forecast at least for the next few months, perhaps the next year, foundations and individuals won’t make money on […]
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The Foundation Center just released a pretty encouraging report analyzing the trends in foundation giving during economic downturns. The data (since they started tracking it in 1975) shows that in past recessions, foundation giving was only marginally affected, if at all. Because foundations tend to determine their payout amounts based on a 2-5 year rolling […]
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Here is an inspiring video about what social entrepreneurship is and how social entrepreneurs are striving for real change: solutions to the root causes of social problems. It is the closing video of the 2008 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. It includes comments from some of the leaders in the field: Bill Drayton, Muhammed […]
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Things are definitely happening. While our country is struggling to address the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, to elect a new President, and so on, new ideas in the social sector are building momentum. Here are just a few examples from the past week of a growing movement: The SoCap 2008 (Social Capital […]
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As I mentioned in my last post, in the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of gatherings and conferences for those interested in social innovation. Here is just a sample of some of the most interesting conferences bringing together people working on and thinking about social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, […]
The economic uncertainty is starting to hit the nonprofit sector. Some foundations are already talking about how, given the devaluation of financial assets, grants will be smaller in number and size in the coming year. And wealthy individuals, suffering similar financial hits, will likely restrict their giving. At the same time, the need for the […]
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These past months have been frightening, with new banks crumbling every week and the government weighing the merits of a $700 billion bailout. The economy is reeling with tremendous uncertainty. I can see the nonprofit sector, which is often hit hardest and longest by any economic downturn, holding its collective breath, unsure what all of […]
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Jim Collins, author of a pivotal business text Good to Great (about what differentiates companies that just survive from those that thrive and become great), wrote a short monograph on the social sector a few years ago called Good to Great and the Social Sectors. If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend it. […]
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At the forefront of the movement for bringing new ideas to bear on the social sector is America Forward. Launched earlier this year by New Profit, a 10-year old venture philanthropy fund in Boston, America Forward seeks to make the social and the government sectors work more closely together. America Forward is a coalition of […]
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