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NONPROFIT SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Affnetz

Government and foundation funding remove the room for risk, whereas business success almost requires innovation and change. Benefits of Operating Social Enterprise Financial contribution to Nonprofit’s programs. This is a false and even dangerous assumption. Nonprofits are set up to minimize risk. For-profits are the opposite.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. Sharing data needs more than technical infrastructure; it also requires social and legal infrastructure.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. The problem is that both the political left and right in the last 35 years have enacted policies that prevent the next generation from building mutualist enterprises. The right only promotes competitive market solutions to solve for human needs.

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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges. Research reveals how inter-organizational collaborations for social impact often run into structural or governance issues like power asymmetries or a focus on the wrong metric of success.

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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is well understood that the potential to leverage impact is huge; for example, while government procurement and supply chain purchases represent the biggest marketplaces in the world —for goods and services that SMEs could supply—SMEs are often locked out of those marketplaces.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year , the federal government historically the second-largest funder of nonprofits in the United States, after income from program feesordered a blanket federal funding freeze, putting over $300 billion in annual funding for nonprofits at risk. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken.

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Solutions to stop Plastic Pollution [People, Tech, Organizations, Governments]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

People, Tech, Organizations, Governments]. Governments, Organizations, and millions of people are stepping up. How Governments are taking action to Reduce Plastic Pollution. The Social Enterprise turning Plastic Waste into Currency. Governments, Social Enterprises, NGOs, and Consumers.