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7 Questions to Move Your Nonprofit to Financial Sustainability

April 20, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Financial sustainability seems to be the Holy Grail of the nonprofit sector. Everyone wants it, but few know how to find it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I firmly believe that financial sustainability is attainable for any nonprofit, as long as board and staff are willing to ask the right questions and do […]

Putting Wealth to Work for Social Value Creation: An Interview with Jen Ratay

April 18, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In this month’s Social Velocity interview, I’m talking with Jen Ratay. Jen is executive director of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund – SV2, a community of families and individuals who come together to learn about effective giving and impact investing while pooling their resources and skills to support promising social ventures. Prior to taking […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: March 2017

April 3, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

March offered lots of insight about how philanthropy should respond in the age of Trump. From investing in social movements, to getting involved in advocacy, to strengthening local communities, to giving more than the required 5%, there was much advice. Add to that a growing interest in how to combat “fake news,” steps to creating a digital marketing strategy, […]

Goodbye to a Mentor and a Friend

March 30, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I have a heavy heart today. I found out yesterday that my first boss, long-time mentor, and most influential teacher of all things nonprofit management died over the weekend. Mary Jubitz was the CEO of SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), a statewide early literacy nonprofit in Portland, Oregon. I met Mary when, as a […]

Nonprofit Capacity Building Works: An Interview with Kathy Reich

March 21, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In this month’s Social Velocity interview, I’m talking with Kathy Reich. Kathy leads the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative both in the United States and in 10 global regions. BUILD is an essential part of the foundation’s strategy to reduce inequality, a strategy arising from the conviction that healthy civil society organizations are essential to driving and […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: Feb 2017

March 2, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Whew, are you as exhausted as I am? As I said last month, with the January inauguration of President Trump, it seems we moved into hyper drive. And February didn’t slow down a bit. From debates about the right political role for nonprofits, to advocacy in new areas like science, to efforts to reinvent journalism, […]

Nonprofit Leaders Have More Power Than They Think

February 16, 2017 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on a controversial topic, “How to Remove a Troublesome Board Member.” As I wrote in the post, Of the many taboos in the nonprofit sector, the taboo against asking bad board members to resign is one of the most destructive. Instead of encouraging ineffective or meddling board […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: January 2017

February 7, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In January it seemed as though we moved into social change hyper drive. With the inauguration of a new president, a litany of controversial executive orders, numerous efforts to block or minimize them, and advice for or frustration with the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors’ responses, the world of social change moved at warp speed. Add to that […]

Will the Women’s March Usher In a New Era of Civic Engagement?

January 24, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Perhaps like many of you, I participated in the Women’s March on Saturday. In my hometown of Austin, Texas I stood with my husband and two teenage sons amid a sea of 50,000 other people, and I suddenly wondered whether we are witnessing the birth of a new era of civic engagement. Saturday was to me an […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: Dec 2016

January 10, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Let’s be honest, December was about just trying to make it through the end of 2016. But where there is darkness there is also light. And many of the discussions and posts in December actually uncovered a lot of bright spots in an otherwise very trying year. From the success of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, to a surge […]

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