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How to Rebut Crazy Donor Demands

August 1, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Note: I’m out of the office this week, so here is a blog post from the Social Velocity archives. This post originally appeared on the blog in April 2012. One of the biggest challenges the nonprofit sector faces is the sometimes dysfunctional relationship between nonprofits and their funders. I’ve talked before about how nonprofits should […]

Sparking a Movement Toward Outcomes: An Interview with Mario Morino

July 20, 2011 By Nell Edgington 8 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Mario Morino. Mario is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, one of the oldest venture philanthropy funds, and chairman of the Morino Institute, a nonprofit focused on technology for social change. His career spans more than 45 years as entrepreneur, technologist, and civic and […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: May

June 1, 2011 By Nell Edgington 5 Comments

In our ongoing blog series, 10 Great Social Innovation Reads, below are my top 10 picks for the best reads in the world of social innovation in May. But I’m sure I missed some great stuff, so please add your favorites from the past month in the comments. Three new books released recently argue in […]

We Need an Ecosystem for The Bottom 80%

April 15, 2010 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

In response to my post last week on the Change.org blog about the Social Innovation Fund, Sean Stannard-Stockton, of the Tactical Philanthropy blog, wrote a comment that really got me thinking. My post argued that the $50 million federal Social Innovation Fund is only one small piece of the capital the nonprofit sector needs. The […]

Philanthropy Drives Arts Education Forward in Austin

November 3, 2009 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

The kick-off of Austin’s MindPop collaboration was this morning.  MindPop, which I’ve written about before, is a collaboration of a handful of leading Austin philanthropists hoping to improve access to arts education for all Austin children.  They want to understand what is holding our kids back from learning about and experiencing the arts and what […]

Overcoming the Anti-Overhead Mindset

February 2, 2009 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

As I described in previous posts here, here and here, one of the ways in which the nonprofit sector is broken is that it is undercapitalized.  It is not able to generate an adequate amount of capital in order to scale and solve the problems it seeks to address. This undercapitalization comes not from a […]

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