Social Velocity

Creating more strategic, financially savvy, and confident nonprofit leaders and organizations.

You are here: Home / Archives for Earned Income

Earned Income

Stop Rolling the Nonprofit Fundraising Dice

By Leave a Comment

It happens all too often. A nonprofit executive director called me the other day because they have just completed a beautiful strategic plan with some exciting goals and a new direction for the organization, but they don’t know how to bring the money in the door to make the plan a reality. They don’t have […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Find and Keep a Great Fundraiser

By 9 Comments

The news is not good lately about how effective the head fundraiser is at nonprofit organizations. A new study by CompassPoint reveals some startling realities about the fundraiser role in the nonprofit sector: 25% of executive directors fired their last development director 33% of executive directors are lukewarm about their current development director More than […]

Calling All Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurs

By 2 Comments

There is a really interesting research study about social entrepreneurs going on at the University of Massachusetts and you may want to join in. John Walker, Finance Director at Echoing Green and Nardia Haigh, Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Management at UMass Boston are investigating social entrepreneurs who went through a process of […]

Solving Urban Food Deserts: An Interview with Dennis Morrow

By 2 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Dennis Morrow, the Executive Director of Janus Youth Programs, a multi-service nonprofit agency that works with children, youth, and families in Portland, Oregon and Southwest Washington. Janus Youth caught my eye a few months ago when Village Market, a nonprofit inner city grocery store they […]