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Reinventing the Nonprofit Capital Campaign

Reinventing the Nonprofit Capital Campaign

June 26, 2012 By Nell Edgington

In a previous article on About.com, I discussed the idea of capacity capital, an incredibly exciting new funding vehicle for nonprofit organizations. Capacity capital is the money that nonprofits so desperately need to build strong, effective, sustainable organizations that can create more social change. It is a one-time investment of money to add new technology, […]

New Guide: Creating a Capacity Capital Campaign

November 30, 2012 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There is a new kind of money that every nonprofit leader should understand and many should go out and raise. Capacity capital is the money that nonprofits so desperately need to build strong, effective, sustainable organizations that can create more social change. It is a one-time investment of money to add new technology, an evaluation […]

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 […]

5 Hard Questions Nonprofits Should Ask

February 2, 2011 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

I’m a huge believer in questions. Sometimes asking good, hard questions is the only way to get to the bottom of something, to find the right path, to understand motivations, to analyze potential options. So too in the nonprofit sector hard questions can play a pivotal role. It is critically important that we move away […]

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 […]

A Radical Spin on Capital Campaigns: An Interview with George Overholser, Part 2

September 7, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

As promised, today we are bringing you Part 2 of our interview with George Overholser from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. You can read Part 1 here. Nell: You have argued before that to transform the nonprofit capital market we need a few capital deals at the top of nonprofit market. How do you think the […]

A Radical Spin on Capital Campaigns: An Interview with George Overholser, Part 1

September 3, 2010 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we are talking with George Overholser, Founder and Managing Director of NFF Capital Partners, a division of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. George is a recognized leader in the field of capitalizing high-performing nonprofit organizations. Since its launch in 2006, NFF Capital Partners has served as advisor on transactions […]

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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