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October 10, 2018 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Overcoming the Divisiveness That Surrounds Us

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Over the past few weeks I’ve found myself worn down by the state of our country. The divisiveness, the anger, the coming apart instead of coming together is increasingly hard to take. And I know many of you feel the same. It seems that as time marches on we increasingly find ourselves battling the differences […]

Filed Under: Innovators, Inspiration, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy, Roadblocks, Social change Tagged With: mission, nonprofit, Philanthropy, purpose, social change

June 29, 2017 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Planning for Nonprofit Success: An Interview With David Grant

In this month’s Social Velocity interview, I’m talking with David Grant. David is the former President and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and past chair of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers. He now consults nationally with nonprofits, foundations, and schools and is the author of The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting […]

Filed Under: Capacity Building, capacity capital, Foundations, growth capital, Innovators, Inspiration, Leadership, Nonprofits, outcomes, Philanthropy, Planning, Roadblocks, scale, Social change, Strategy Tagged With: Capacity Building, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, grantmakers, mission, nonprofit, nonprofit capacity, nonprofit strategy, Philanthropy, strategic planning

April 25, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Do Your Programs Contribute to Mission AND Money?

There is a tool that I think is incredibly helpful to nonprofit leaders trying to figure out where to focus their resources and how to plan for the future. Indeed it is typically one of the first activities in the strategic planning process I use with my clients. The Program Matrix helps a nonprofit board […]

Filed Under: Board of Directors, Capacity Building, Financing, Fundraising, impact measurement, Inspiration, Leadership, Nonprofits, outcomes, Planning, Roadblocks, Social change, Strategy Tagged With: financial sustainability, Fundraising, mission, mission money mix, nonprofit, nonprofit strategy, outcomes, Philanthropy, programs, social change, theory of change

July 19, 2012 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Are You a Social Entrepreneur?

I’m excited to report that a week from today, July 26th, I will be participating in a live online chat at the Foundation Center’s Grant Space website, titled “Are You a Social Entrepreneur?“. Abby Chroman, leader of global community curation for AshokaHub, and I will be fielding questions from the audience about social entrepreneurship, social […]

Filed Under: Capacity Building, Convergence, Economy, evaluation, Financing, Fundraising, growth capital, Innovators, Inspiration, Leadership, Millennials, Nonprofits, outcomes, Philanthropy, Planning, Roadblocks, scale, Social change, Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, social return on investment, Strategy Tagged With: Abby Chroman, Ashoka, AshokaHub, capacity capital, Foundation Center, Grant Space, live chat, mission, nonprofit, outcomes, social change, social entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship, social innovation, social return on investment

December 1, 2009 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Building a Stronger Organization

We all know the nonprofit sector is really struggling.  Particularly in the midst of a deep recession it can be difficult to figure out how to get out of a vicious cycle of increasing demand for services, relentless fundraising, diminishing capacity and so on. But there is hope.  In order to break free of the […]

Filed Under: Board of Directors, Capacity Building, Nonprofits, Planning Tagged With: Fundraising, mission, nonprofit starvation cycle, organizational assessment, vision

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