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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Either we rely on grant and donor funding, or must continually justify to investors and the public that our entrepreneurship is relevant to solving some of the most pressing issues of our time. Let’s bring together entrepreneurs with promising solutions, give them a few million dollars, and encourage them to work collaboratively.

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Exploring Alternatives to College and Unleashing Online Business Ideas for Teens

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These alternatives empower them to pursue their passions, gain practical skills, and embrace entrepreneurship at a young age. While traditional education often emphasized memorizing facts and knowledge retention, there is now a greater emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity.

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Billion Dollar CEO, Founder: Liz Elting on Dreaming, Mentoring, Giving and Winning

Fundraising Leadership

At 8 years old, she, her parents and sister moved to Portugal as her father was in marketing and advertising and opened a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise there. “We're lucky to get to hear exactly how she built a successful company—and how that gave her the freedom to become a philanthropist.“ when she was seven months old.

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

It might have clever advertising. Personality and altruism in the dictator game: Relationship to giving to kin, collaborators, competitors, and neutrals. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In nature, giving outside the family without any reciprocity is deadly. It’s an unnatural act. We’re not partners!”

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lindsay Nichols

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

I found out more details of my speaking gig at the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship in late June. On this particular day I had a call with our new partner about how we might cross-promote our collaboration. I had to approve the design of a new business card. I learned more about our social media conversations.