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10 Great Social Innovation Reads: March 2017

April 3, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

March offered lots of insight about how philanthropy should respond in the age of Trump. From investing in social movements, to getting involved in advocacy, to strengthening local communities, to giving more than the required 5%, there was much advice. Add to that a growing interest in how to combat “fake news,” steps to creating a digital marketing strategy, […]

A Monster List of Social Changemakers on Twitter

October 31, 2016 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

Today is Halloween, which means it’s time for another monster list. In keeping with my Halloween tradition on the blog, today I’d like to add to past monster lists (of social change blogs, conferences, books, and resources) with a monster list of social changemakers to follow on Twitter. I know, I know, Twitter is struggling.  Maybe […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: Sept 2016

October 4, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

A lot of the conversation in September centered around inequality, philanthropy and data. When do data and philanthropy address inequality and when do they actually reinforce it? And if you add to that discussion about whether donors really care about impact; concern about the distracting, addicting influence of social media; and a call for philanthropists to be more supportive of nonprofit […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: Feb 2016

March 8, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

February focused (at least in my mind) on innovations in philanthropy. A new growth capital fund for nonprofits, radical philanthropists, trends in charitable giving, and philanthropy’s role in creating the future. Add to that a bold move by a nonprofit to wrest a lucrative city recycling contract from a for-profit company, research on Millennials’ hopes […]

The Changing Nonprofit Landscape [Podcast]

March 31, 2015 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Earlier this month I participated in a podcast conversation with Joed Lopez of Panvisio as part of their on-going Q2 Podcast series with social sector leaders. We talked about: How broken fundraising is A more effective financing approach Nonprofit fear of money The passion of nonprofit leaders The need to articulate a nonprofit’s message Capacity capital […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: January 2015

February 3, 2015 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

January was a busy month. From more trends and predictions for the new year, to new ways of thinking about scale, to nonprofit performance measures and whether donors really care about them, to a return to farming, and a new giving app, there was lots to read in the world of social change. Below are my picks […]

Is The Nonprofit Sector Really Broken?

January 8, 2015 By Nell Edgington 7 Comments

There was a bit of a dust up in the (social change) Twitterverse yesterday. Ryan Seashore from CodeNow wrote a post on TechCrunch arguing that the majority of nonprofits are “broken,” and should act more like for-profit startups in order to create impact. The post follows a similar line of other arguments over the years (most recently Carrie Rich’s […]

A Monster List of Social Change Books

October 30, 2014 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

It’s Halloween again and that means it’s time for my annual Monster List of Resources (you can see past lists here, here, and here). Today I’m focusing on social change books. I know, books are so over. We have become a society that is about fewer and fewer words, or really, fewer and fewer characters. But there […]

A Summer of Nonprofit and Philanthropic Thought Leaders

May 29, 2014 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, and summer is (almost) upon us, I’m excited to announce that I’m doing something a little different on the blog this summer. In addition to the Social Impact Exchange conference I mentioned earlier, I will be traveling a lot this summer connecting with nonprofit and philanthropic leaders. I’ll […]

The Tricky Work of Scaling Nonprofits

May 8, 2014 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

The idea of “scale,” or growing to a point at which you are solving the underlying social problem, is a tricky one in the nonprofit sector and something that is a growing topic of conversation. Jeff Bradach from The Bridgespan Group launched a new 8-week blog series on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog last month […]

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