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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: What it Takes to Start a Nonprofit Organization

The Charity CFO

The overall theme between starting any form of business, for profit or nonprofits, is the motivation inside of someone and why exactly they want to do it. Social Enterprise & Tradeoffs This is a buzzword that you need to know. Start with the deep considerations and learning from others’ experiences. Stick with it!

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Not Invented, But Scaled Here

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems. Obstacles related to operational infrastructure and access can be costly to solve, derailing a social enterprise’s scaling ambitions.

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2 Email Templates to Soft Launch Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Campaign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Explain your motivation. Email #1: Introduce the Campaign. Provide all of the details.

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6 Generations of Giving: Who Gives the Most and How They Prefer to Give

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations. Online giving is their forte, with crowdfunding platforms and social media serving as powerful tools to raise awareness and funds.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

One example is an arts program that is based on the well-established concept that arts participation relieves stress, boosts academic success, and provides healing through self-expression and socioemotional learning. About seven years ago, UCC launched Living Arts , which is open to youth of any culture or race, ages 14 to 24.

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How (Not) to Scale a Nonprofit

Stanford Social Innovation Review

I started Esperanza with the same three key ingredients as any social entrepreneur: a personal motivation to solve a tough problem where government and markets had failed, an entrepreneurial vision for how to do it, and a base from which to pursue my vision. Today, I keep in touch with many Esperanza graduates.

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Millennials on a Mission: Idealism, Impact, Innovation

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

During this year’s Millennial Impact Forum (also known as MCON), thousands of leaders in philanthropy, social enterprise, and technology joined together for two days of inspiration from our next generation of leaders. Jamie will be sharing her insight on philanthropy and trends in giving, as well as updates from the field.