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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Innovating for Dramatically Greater Scale and Social Impact [VIDEO]

Top Nonprofits

But, if you step back and you look at the bigger societal problem, like say you’re working on, early childhood education or hunger or poverty, look back at the bigger picture. In 2007, we were serving only a few people and then it keeps getting better and better. Maybe you’re just working community. Here’s our impact.

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Virtual Worlds: The future or a fad?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think the title should have been more aptly "Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better ROI for Fundraising Than Second Life in 2007!" In a strange coincidence, I received an email from Jackie Marsh, a UK-based researcher looking at social media and early childhood, telling me about her blog, Digital Beginnings. (We

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An Interview with Jessica Rauch about The Generation Project: Passionate about Teaching Young People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in General Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education. I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We're telling people to, of course, bring sweaters, because it's San Francisco, but we're also telling them to bring their own refillable plastic bottles and we're going to give them Hetch Hetchy 2007, that's San Francisco water. We're tired of hearing people overcoming their horrible childhood, because it's too much.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

And yet in 2004, I listened to an exhibit manager vent about the challenge of creating an early childhood development exhibition in his science center. and New Models for Engagement," In Hand to Hand, Winter 2007, Volume 21, Number 4. Shrek is an unimaginable construct in the world of 1970s family cinema. I don't want a plastic tree.

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Cause Marketing or Cause Me To Puke Marketing? Interview with Scott Henderson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Twitter found that out in 2007.)

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