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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 […]
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 […]
Note: This post originally appeared on the About.com Nonprofit blog. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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