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In the Trenches Raising Growth Capital: An Interview with Anna Land

November 30, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity interview we are talking with Anna Land, founder of Heart House, a nonprofit after-school program for low-income children with some pretty impressive results and big plans for growth. Anna and her board are looking to expand Heart House to 5 Texas cities and increase the number of kids served by […]

What's Making Me Think

November 16, 2010 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

One of the things I love about my job is that I can spend some serious time reading and thinking about the many conversations happening in the evolving world of social innovation. I am continually amazed by the thought-provoking things that happen out there in philanthropy, nonprofit innovation, impact investing, social entrepreneurship. I think particularly […]

Where Nonprofits Fit in the Social Innovation Movement

November 10, 2010 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

I recently did an interview with Kellogg Venture Community‘s KVCcast host David Nosnik about where nonprofits fit in the social innovation movement. It’s a 20 minute conversation in which we discuss how nonprofits can: Recruit and manage a much more effective board of directors Raise growth capital Become more entrepreneurial to achieve more social impact […]

Financing Not Fundraising: The Message of Social Impact

November 3, 2010 By Nell Edgington 14 Comments

In part 5 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, we are discussing how to move fundraising messaging away from organizational needs and toward social impact. In so doing, a nonprofit can enjoy an individual donor base that is more invested, engaged and committed to the work the nonprofit does in the community. To […]

Tools to Build Smaller Nonprofits

October 26, 2010 By Nell Edgington 9 Comments

I started Social Velocity because I saw a real hole in the nonprofit sector. Small and medium nonprofits working on social change lacked access to expertise and resources to strengthen and grow their solutions. The Teach for Americas of the world were building impressive organizations and replicating their solution far and wide. But they were […]

Where Do You Fit in the Market?

October 25, 2010 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

Because nonprofit organizations exist to do good, as opposed to generate profit, they often view their activities as outside of the market economy. But the fact is that nonprofits are very much part of a market economy and the sooner they determine where they are best positioned within that market, the more successful they will […]

The Awkwardness of it All: SoCap and the Nonprofit World

October 5, 2010 By Nell Edgington 9 Comments

I’ll give a full rundown of my Day 1 experience at SoCap in a later post, but first I have to admit my excited anticipation of this year’s Social Capital Markets conference encountered some disappointment yesterday as the third annual conference kicked off. The day began with a co-keynote address by Sean Stannard-Stockton, from Tactical […]

Can't Small Nonprofits Raise Capital Too?

September 13, 2010 By Nell Edgington 5 Comments

In our two part interview with George Overholser of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, George made an argument that gave me and some of my readers pause. He argued that only the largest nonprofits can really benefit from his “radical” idea of using a capital campaign to build their organization (instead of a building). But with […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Finding Individual Donors

August 31, 2010 By Nell Edgington 5 Comments

In part four of our ongoing Financing Not Fundraising blog series, we are focusing on the most untapped, greatest sustainable funding opportunity facing the nonprofit sector. Individual donor dollars make up 80% of the private money entering the nonprofit sector each year, compared to 5% from corporate dollars and 12% from foundation dollars. Yet many […]

What Social Value Do Nonprofits Really Create?

August 26, 2010 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I have a new post up at the Change.org Social Entrepreneurship blog called “What Social Value Do Nonprofits Really Create?” Here is an excerpt: There is a concept that good entrepreneurs know only too well, but nonprofits could stand to explore. A “value proposition” is the unique value a product or service provides a consumer. […]

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