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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

For the nonprofit sector, the GFC wreaked havoc on donations and budgets. According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 Many nonprofits were caught off guard by the GFC’s impact on charitable giving.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. As part of a. Why the difference?

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations.

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2013 NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Lauren-Glenn Davitian

NTEN

Each year, we honor an individual who has been instrumental in shaping the field of nonprofit technology, and paved the way for the rest of us. We thought it only fitting that we share a video to document her impact over the years: Past Lifetime Achievement Winners: 2012: Rob Stuart , Evolve Strategies. 2008: Vince Stehle.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

"The first phase of this database of nonprofit collaboration models (currently consisting of the 176 nominations deemed eligible for The Collaboration Prize in 2008) contains the information submitted by each nominator in response to specific questions about the nominated collaboration.

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Art and Aging: Tim Carpenter of EngAGE

Have Fun - Do Good

I believe that new models of aging and senior life will emerge from this wave, and can't wait to see what is created, which is why I loved stumbling upon The New York Times article, For Healthy Aging, A Late Act in the Footlights. The NOHO Senior Arts Colony and the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony will open in 2012.

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