Creating more strategic, financially savvy, and confident nonprofit leaders and organizations.
Last month I attended the Social Venture Partners International conference in Dallas. It was a great gathering of an organization that is helping to lead the movement for social innovation. In 25 chapters in the US, Canada and Japan, 2,000 social venture partners contribute time, money and expertise to the nonprofits in their communities. The […]
The “starvation cycle” of nonprofit organizations doing more and more with less and less has to end. But how can nonprofit organizations break out of this cycle when donors won’t fund nonprofit capacity? The news last week that the Boston Foundation will shift the majority of their competitive grants to unrestricted operating support, which in […]
There is much talk lately about what the fallout of our deepening recession will be for the nonprofit sector. Paul Light gives four future scenarios for the sector, others are pinning their hopes on the new Obama administration, a new economic stimulus plan, and/or the Serve America Act to revitalize and strengthen the sector. Who […]