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Nonprofit Leaders, Reclaim Your Social Change Power

June 25, 2019 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Whenever I’m meeting with a prospective client one of the first questions I ask is, “What is your vision for your organization? What do you want ultimately to accomplish.” It never ceases to amaze me how often the answer is either: Some version of “I hadn’t really thought about that”, or worse, “Just a bit […]

Losing the Nonprofit Charity Mindset

January 3, 2013 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

Note: While I’m off during the holidays I wanted to provide some archive blog posts that you might enjoy. A version of this post originally appeared on the Social Velocity blog in November 2010. Along with the burgeoning social entrepreneurship movement comes a bit of hubris that social entrepreneurs know better how to create social […]

Can Reactive Clark Kent Become Strategic Superman?

March 31, 2011 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

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 […]

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