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Making Change the New Norm

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It occurred to me in two conversations I had this morning that small change can create large change, but how exactly does that happen? My first conversation was a phone call with George Overholser, from the Nonprofit Finance Fund and a leading thinker around new kinds of capital for nonprofit organizations.  I was getting some […]

The Critical Alignment Discussion

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I’m back from Spring break, which came right as the flurry of discussion about my blog post The Critical Alignment of Mission, Money and Competence was winding down.  I really appreciate the great comments and discussion from Sean Stannard-Stockton (of the Tactical Philanthropy blog), Nathaniel Whittemore (of Change.org’s Social Entrepreneurship blog), Kjerstin Erickson (founder of […]

Adding Equity to the Nonprofit Balance Sheet

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Expanding on the argument for equity holders in the nonprofit sector, there has been a call for restructuring nonprofit accounting standards (FASB) to introduce equity capital.  The idea, proposed by Sean Stannard-Stockton, from Tactical Philanthropy, and George Overholser of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, is that we make a distinction in nonprofit accounting between revenue used […]