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Can We Reinvent the Arts?

September 24, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m really excited about a new conference I’m participating in this October, and I’d love to see you there. ArtsFwd, an interactive online platform where arts leaders can learn from each other about the power of adaptive change and the practice of innovation, is holding a first-ever National Innovation Summit for Arts + Culture October […]

Live Chatting Mission and Money

March 22, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m excited to announce that I will be participating in a Chronicle of Philanthropy Live Chat on Tuesday, March 26th at 12 noon Eastern. Karina Mangu-Ward, from EmcArts will be joining me to answer questions from the audience about connecting mission and money. You may remember Karina from a past interview I did with her. […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: December 2012

January 10, 2013 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

As the end of 2012 drew near, December brought the usual looking forward and looking back. It was a time to reflect on where we’d been and where we (might) be going. It was also a time to salve the pain of disaster and tragedy with hope and innovation. Below are my top 10 reads […]

A Monster List of Resources For Nonprofit Innovation

October 31, 2012 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Since today is Halloween I wanted to continue a tradition I started last Halloween of providing a list of resources about nonprofit innovation. I’ve created the list below by culling from our constantly evolving and much larger list of resources on the Social Velocity website. Below I’ve handpicked the tools I think are most useful […]

New Ways To Keep Up with Social Innovation

October 19, 2012 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

I am increasingly amazed and excited by the growing Social Velocity community. Social Velocity blog readers, e-newsletter subscribers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans are some of the coolest, most inspiring people. You are nonprofit executive directors and development directors, for-profit social entrepreneurs, passionate board members, engaged philanthropists and on and on. So, in an effort to […]

Innovation in the Arts: An Interview with Karina Mangu-Ward

May 11, 2012 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Karina Mangu-Ward. Karina is the Director of Activating Innovation at EmcArts a social enterprise for innovation and adaptive change across the arts sector. She leads the strategy and development of ArtsFwd.org, an interactive online platform where arts leaders can learn from each other about the […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: October

November 3, 2011 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

I think it gets harder and harder every month to narrow down to a list of only 10 great reads in social innovation. October was no exception. Here are my top 10 of the last month (but actually more like 13 if you’re counting). As always, please add what I missed to the comments. And […]

This Week's The Giving Show

September 6, 2011 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to announce that I will be Michael Chatman’s guest on this week’s Giving Show. Michael was voted America’s Maverick Philanthropist and one of the nation’s leading authorities on new philanthropy. He heads the nation’s largest network of mission-related philanthropists giving up to $50,000 annually, The Association of Maverick Philanthropists. Michael hosts a weekly […]

Can Reactive Clark Kent Become Strategic Superman?

March 31, 2011 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Note: This post originally appeared on the Change.org Social Entrepreneurship blog earlier this year. For the nonprofit sector to truly climb aboard the social innovation train, as opposed to being abandoned by it, nonprofit leaders need to move past the reactive toward the strategic. But is that possible? Have nonprofits been stuck in a resource-constrained, charity mindset […]

A New Kind of Nonprofit Leader

June 24, 2010 By Nell Edgington 8 Comments

In his New York Times column this week Bob Herbert strongly criticized America and its leaders for not stepping up to the plate to guide us through these very troubling times.  As he put it: As a nation, we are becoming more and more accustomed to a sense of helplessness. We no longer rise to […]

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