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10 Great Social Innovation Reads: Feb 2016

March 8, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

February focused (at least in my mind) on innovations in philanthropy. A new growth capital fund for nonprofits, radical philanthropists, trends in charitable giving, and philanthropy’s role in creating the future. Add to that a bold move by a nonprofit to wrest a lucrative city recycling contract from a for-profit company, research on Millennials’ hopes […]

Emerging From the Nonprofit Starvation Tunnel

March 18, 2014 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Nonprofits are always starving for resources. It’s a concept so ubiquitous that it’s almost a truism. But it doesn’t have to be. For those nonprofit leaders brave enough, capacity capital can be the key to emerging from the continuous nonprofit starvation cycle. Next month I will be speaking at the Securing the Future Conference in […]

5 Nonprofit Trends to Watch in 2013

December 10, 2012 By Nell Edgington 9 Comments

I started a tradition in December of 2010 with a blog post on the nonprofit trends to watch in the coming year. Keeping with that tradition, here is my take on the nonprofit trends for 2013 (you can read my nonprofit trends posts for 2011 and 2012 as well). As I’ve said before, I’m more […]

New E-Book: Money to Build Your Nonprofit

June 15, 2012 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve just released a new e-book called The Power of Capacity Capital. Capacity Capital is a fairly new concept in the nonprofit world that has the power to completely transform the sector by releasing it from the “starvation cycle” and making nonprofits more effective and sustainable at creating social change. […]

Next Generation of High Engagagement Philanthropy: An Interview with Carol Thompson Cole

September 9, 2011 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Carol Thompson Cole. Carol is President & CEO of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), a philanthropic investment organization (co-founded by Mario Morino) that helps great leaders build strong, high-performing nonprofit institutions. She has over thirty years of management experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. […]

8 Nonprofit Inflection Points and How to Seize Them

March 11, 2011 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

In the lifecycle of any nonprofit there comes a time when something needs to change. Call it an inflection point, a resetting, a fork in the road. I see it all the time. Someone in the organization takes a step back and realizes something just isn’t going to work anymore. It’s a critical point. It’s […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Explore New Types of Money

February 23, 2011 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

In part 7 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, we are discussing finding and employing new types of money in the financial mix of your nonprofit. If you are new to this series, our Financing Not Fundraising blog series argues that fundraising in the nonprofit sector is broken.  In fact, traditional fundraising is […]

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 […]

Wielding the Money Sword

August 19, 2010 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

A new blog at the Chronicle of Philanthropy site launched this week that I’m pretty excited about. Written by Clara Miller and others at the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Money and Mission blog will help nonprofits “understand and skillfully wield money as a tool.”  What a revolutionary idea. As Clara writes in the inaugural post: […]

A Revolution in Nonprofit Finance: An Interview with Clara Miller

June 7, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Last month we kicked off a new, monthly Social Velocity blog interview series where I interview leading thinkers and doers in the social innovation space. Our inaugural interview was with Kevin Jones co-founder of both Good Capital, one of the first venture capital funds that invests in social enterprises, and the Social Capital Markets Conference […]

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