Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 18, 2012

That’s what Robin Dixon did, when she learned that the Facebook IPO would happen. Robin got Firelight ready, and that preparation paid off. Guest Post by Robin Dixon of Firelight Foundation. A few months ago, our Board of Directors identified a unique press opportunity related to the Facebook IPO.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By January 2023, the growing team was ready to apply to the Start.coop business accelerator and were accepted. Etsy’s previous CEO, Chad Dickerson , said in a stockholder meeting at the time of the IPO in 2015 that the reason for Etsy’s remarkable user growth was due to makers promoting their own shops.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, we followed a team of founders who were committed to supporting “cottage” food entrepreneurs—mostly women of color who had excellent cooking skills but lacked business skills and ready access to fresh ingredients and licensed kitchens. While some ACCEL ventures “went viral,” GREEN ventures grew “like an oak tree.”.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

11 So, then, what can we do to ready our organizations and communities to embrace the full work of reparations? The Brooklyn Community Foundation, on its end, was established in 2009 with over $70 million in assets from a private foundation that had been created by the Independence Community Bank as part of its IPO in 1998.

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