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10 Great Social Innovation Reads: August

September 2, 2011 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Since I was on vacation for a couple of weeks in August and pretty much unplugged, I’m probably not qualified to list the 10 greatest reads in social innovation for the month of August, but I’m still going to give it a shot. As always, please add what I missed to the comments. You can […]

Unlocking Philanthropic Capital: An Interview with Sean Stannard-Stockton

October 28, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we are talking with Sean Stannard-Stockton, one of my favorite people in the social innovation world. Sean is a visionary leading the charge to transform philanthropy. He is CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, a philanthropy advisory firm. He is also the author of the very popular Tactical Philanthropy […]

The Awkwardness of it All: SoCap and the Nonprofit World

October 5, 2010 By Nell Edgington 9 Comments

I’ll give a full rundown of my Day 1 experience at SoCap in a later post, but first I have to admit my excited anticipation of this year’s Social Capital Markets conference encountered some disappointment yesterday as the third annual conference kicked off. The day began with a co-keynote address by Sean Stannard-Stockton, from Tactical […]

Here Comes SoCap

September 29, 2010 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

So it’s my favorite time of year again, well at least in the world of social innovation. The Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco starts Monday. There are a lot of social innovation conferences, in fact you can read a great rundown on many of this Fall’s best. But SoCap is by far my […]

The Future of Financing Impact: An Interview with Kevin Jones

May 21, 2010 By Nell Edgington 5 Comments

I am launching a new regular interview series on the Social Velocity blog that will feature discussions with the leading thinkers and doers in the social innovation space. I will talk with philanthropists, social investors, social entrepreneurs (from the nonprofit and for-profit side) and others leading the way in this new space. What they all […]

The Social Capital Markets Conference 3.0

April 29, 2010 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

I just registered for this year’s Social Capital Markets Conference held in San Francisco in October. It is my favorite conference in the social innovation space for a number of reasons, and I think this year’s conference (the third) may just be even better. The Social Capital Markets Conference brings together social entrepreneurs (both for-profit […]

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 […]

Convergence Can't Be Denied

January 28, 2010 By Nell Edgington 11 Comments

There is a fascinating debate going on in the blogsphere touched off by Michael Edwards, author of  Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World and former director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society program. In essence, the debate is about whether the convergence of the private (business) and the nonprofit sectors is […]

Constraint or Opportunity?

January 12, 2010 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

One of my favorite organizations and a critical player in the creation of a well-capitalized nonprofit sector, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, is seeking feedback.  NFF is a community-development fund that makes millions of dollars in loans to nonprofits and pushes for fundamental improvement in how money is given and used in the sector. Last March […]

Why Do People Give?

November 6, 2009 By Nell Edgington 11 Comments

There is a great discussion going on at the Tactical Philanthropy blog centered around the new book The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan by Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon who argue that philanthropists (big and small) should take a more strategic approach to giving.  The discussion that has followed the […]

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