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How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational. While nonprofits can’t control donor behavior, they can optimize their appeal by demonstrating competence, value, and transparency at every level. For nonprofits looking to maximize their outreach potential, exemplary governance is the answer.

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The Colors Co-op Experiment: Learning the Right Lessons from Our Failure

NonProfit Quarterly

While ROC has always been a nonprofit organization, its signature restaurant, Colors, was an LLC, created as a co-op and run by former Windows on the World workers. This bleak labor market made it hard for Windows on the World’s survivors to find new employment. The payroll was reduced to one individual, an events manager.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We will share our experience, and those of our peers, to argue that this funding ecosystem needs to be reimagined to truly support social entrepreneurs and collectively address the global problems they are tackling. The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. The Investment Mirage.

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How to Earn Income (and Autonomy) for Your Nonprofit

Getting Attention

That’s what I hear from most nonprofit organizations intent on doing things the way they’ve always done them — relying on money from funders (private and government) and individual donors to sustain them. We use the generous gifts and grants we receive to deliver programs, services and products to our community.

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Cause Camp 2020 Speaker Lineup

NonProfit Hub

They will be covering topics from across the nonprofit sector including diversity, stewardship, donor experience and self-care. Digital Storytelling Expert, J Campbell Social Marketing. She was recently named one of the top 25 Nonprofit IT Influencers to Follow in 2019 by BizTech Magazine. Julia Campbell. Lynne Wester.

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What will happen in philanthropy this year?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

This is the first in what will be a independent annual industry analysis for philanthropy and social investing. Lucy describes how 2010 will be another tough year for nonprofits - but likely a growth year for alternatively structured organizations that pursue the common good - like L3cs and B Corporations.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

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