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What Change Does Your Nonprofit Seek?

June 18, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

What I love best about my job is opening nonprofit leaders to new and bigger possibilities. Last week was a busy one. I was in Phoenix for part of the week speaking at the Planned Giving Roundtable Conference and then I flew to New York to lead a board retreat at the National Guild for […]

5 Hard Questions Every Nonprofit Should Ask

August 14, 2012 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

Note: I’m heading out of the office for the next week and a half, but in my absence I want to offer a couple of blog posts from the Social Velocity archives. The one below appeared on the blog in February 2011. Enjoy! I’m a huge believer in questions. Sometimes asking good, hard questions is […]

Articulating Your Nonprofit's Value Through a Theory of Change

December 7, 2011 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

If you want to raise more money, chart a strategic direction, make your nonprofit more effective, get your board engaged, and achieve your mission, you need a theory of change. A theory of change is basically an argument for how your nonprofit turns community resources (money, volunteers, clients, staff, materials) into positive change in the […]

Sparking a Movement Toward Outcomes: An Interview with Mario Morino

July 20, 2011 By Nell Edgington 8 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Mario Morino. Mario is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, one of the oldest venture philanthropy funds, and chairman of the Morino Institute, a nonprofit focused on technology for social change. His career spans more than 45 years as entrepreneur, technologist, and civic and […]

4 Things Every Nonprofit Needs

June 15, 2011 By Nell Edgington 8 Comments

If the leaders of a nonprofit organization are really serious about creating change, there are some things they must have in place. I spend my days talking with a variety of nonprofit organizations, and the problems that bring them to Social Velocity all fall into these broad categories: An inability to raise enough money A […]

Let's Take a Step Back in the Outcomes Debate

January 21, 2010 By Nell Edgington 14 Comments

There is a growing discussion among social impact organizations and those who fund them about how to measure impact.  It is indeed a very slippery endeavor. Mario Marino, Chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners (a venture philanthropy fund in Washington D.C. that makes growth capital investments in nonprofits) has been encouraging nonprofits to measure outcomes for […]

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