Creating more strategic, financially savvy, and confident nonprofit leaders and organizations.
Last fall I wrote a blog post arguing that small nonprofits need access to philanthropic equity (money to build their organizations) just as much as larger, more sophisticated nonprofits do. My post was in response to George Overholser’s Social Velocity blog interview where he argued that philanthropic equity (or growth capital) campaigns, where a nonprofit […]
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There is a blog I read that doesn’t fit with any of the others on my favorites list. A Smart Bear written by Jason Cohen, founder of Smart Bear Software, which (I’ll be honest) I know nothing about, is really refreshing and eye-opening. The blog is supposed to be about startup software marketing, but I […]
Note: This post originally appeared on the Change.org Social Entrepreneurship blog earlier this year. For the nonprofit sector to truly climb aboard the social innovation train, as opposed to being abandoned by it, nonprofit leaders need to move past the reactive toward the strategic. But is that possible? Have nonprofits been stuck in a resource-constrained, charity mindset […]
Note: This post is the first in the ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising. For more on the Financing Not Fundraising approach, view the Financing Not Fundraising book series and the Financing Not Fundraising webinar series. I’d like to outline a new vision for how the nonprofit sector gets funded. Fundraising in its current form just doesn’t […]
I’ve discussed before how important boards of directors are to the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector. But I think they are particularly critical to overcoming the bias against nonprofit capacity. Boards of directors are a largely untapped resource available to nonprofits. If nonprofits could figure out how to tap into the expertise, networks, knowledge and […]