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Fixing the World Requires Disruptive, not Incremental, Change

June 1, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

The nonprofit sector has always been, at its core, about social disruption–some sort of disequilibrium exists in the market (poverty, unequal access to healthcare, segregation, homelessness, hunger) and a nonprofit organization is born to correct it. But somewhere along the way the big changes nonprofits sought to make in social norms, inadequate institutions, and unfair […]

Innovation is the Answer

April 28, 2009 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

There’s a really great recent post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog by Mario Marino, founder of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a venture philanthropy fund in Washington, DC. Mario’s post is the best attempt I’ve seen yet to frame the current state of America (deepening recession, crumbling institutions, etc.) as a tremendous opportunity to reinvent […]

A New Direction for American Public Education

April 10, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

I’ve written before about the potential for some serious education reform in America because of the Obama administration and their appointment of Arne Duncan, former Chicago Public Schools superintendent, as Secretary of Education.  Arne has a great track record and some exciting ideas and experience with education reform.  There is more insight into his ideas […]

Making Change Happen

April 6, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There’s an interesting article by Michael Grunwald in Time Magazine about how Obama is using behavioral science to create the tremendous change he has promised and that America needs. Perhaps this approach can be useful to social entrepreneurs as well. Grunwald illustrates that throughout the presidential campaign Obama used behavioral science to change voter and […]

Resetting the Capital Approach

March 2, 2009 By Nell Edgington 6 Comments

There is concern lately about how much worse it is going to get for nonprofits because of Obama’s new budget proposal, which will limit the value of the tax break for wealthy donors, from 35% to 28%. Many nonprofits are even more worried than they were before about revenue, for example the nonprofit Executive Director […]

Change is Here

February 25, 2009 By Nell Edgington 8 Comments

One of the criticisms of an otherwise very well received speech last night by President Obama was that it was “too ambitious.”  Last night he vowed to take on healthcare and education reform, the recession, global warming, 2 wars, among other things.  That is ambitious, but does he have a choice?  Do we have a […]

Here Comes Some Real Education Reform

February 17, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

As President Obama signs the economic stimulus bill into law today it is interesting to analyze what this means for nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and crumbling American institutions like our education system.  I have written many times before about the opportunity that this financial crisis offers.  When systems are crumbling the time is right to build […]

Reinvent Austin's Social Sector

January 27, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There is much talk lately about what the fallout of our deepening recession will be for the nonprofit sector.  Paul Light gives four future scenarios for the sector, others are pinning their hopes on the new Obama administration, a new economic stimulus plan, and/or the Serve America Act to revitalize and strengthen the sector.  Who […]

An Historic Day

January 20, 2009 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

  Today marks the much-anticipated inauguration of our next President.  And to a country in the middle of two wars and a deepening recession, it is a moment of hope.  There is much speculation about what this new President will do for our country.  Particularly in the nonprofit sector, which always bears the brunt of […]

New Ideas in a New Year

January 5, 2009 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

2009 is finally here and with the new year comes some interesting new ideas.  The struggles of 2008 have the potential to stimulate innovative solutions.  With a new administration entering office on January 20th there could be significant changes in how the nonprofit sector receives resources (funding, staff, government support, etc).  You can read my […]

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