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Sparking Social Change Movements

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Scott Goodson’s new book, Uprising: How to Build a Brand – And Change the World – by Sparking Cultural Movements, has an ambitious goal that eventually falls flat. Goodson provides an excellent analysis of the new movements sweeping the globe and how social change organizations can learn from them. However, when he tries to connect […]

Losing the Charity Mindset

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Along with the burgeoning social entrepreneurship movement comes a bit of hubris that social entrepreneurs know better how to create social change than do the nonprofits that have been working toward social change for years.  Some social entrepreneurs argue that nonprofits are too set in their ways to embrace a new way of creating solutions.  […]

Foundations Can Lead the Charge Toward a New Philanthropy

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The news in the philanthropy world this week is not good.  It seems that our fears about the effect of the economic downturn on philanthropy are being confirmed in spades.  The Ford Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, two of the largest in the country, are both reducing their staffs by 30%+ and making other […]

A Strategic Approach to Generating Revenue

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The one common frustration shared by the various organizations I work with is money.  How do we get more of it, how do we use it more effectively, how do we generate it more easily, how do we make it sustainable?  My answer to all of these questions is to take a more strategic approach. […]