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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 […]

Constraint or Opportunity?

January 12, 2010 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

One of my favorite organizations and a critical player in the creation of a well-capitalized nonprofit sector, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, is seeking feedback.  NFF is a community-development fund that makes millions of dollars in loans to nonprofits and pushes for fundamental improvement in how money is given and used in the sector. Last March […]

Making Donors Organization Builders

September 25, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

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 […]

Working Towards Scale in Austin

April 20, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Something pretty interesting is happening in Austin around growth, social entrepreneurship and investment capital.  The KDK Harman Foundation, launched in 2004 by Janet Harman with a $26 million endowment, is spearheading an effort to get the social sector here talking about and thinking about how to grow and replicate successful nonprofit models.  The mission of […]

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