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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. We decided early on to incorporate NeedsList as a for-profit, purpose-driven company. We bought into the notion that a for-profit company was the way to scale and achieve impact. We weren’t alone. ” Investors interrogated our decision. .”

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

It might have clever advertising. Footnotes: [1] In experiments, giving to family members always exceeds giving to non-family members. Personality and altruism in the dictator game: Relationship to giving to kin, collaborators, competitors, and neutrals. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.