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A Jargon-Free Guide to Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C)

NonProfit Hub

In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. In essence, it operates to better social welfare in some way. Can I start an L3C?

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

Museum 2.0

If you need a good reason to read her blog, sit down for an afternoon with this incredible talk she gave in 2008 at an arts marketing summit and prepare to be blown away. When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good." These ventures offer solid rates of return as well as environmental and/or social benefits, sometimes called blended value.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

Connection Cafe

Early on, my inner tree hugger had to reconcile the millions of trees that it took to get DM campaigns with 5% response rates out the door with the cold reality that it was this sort of marketing that was the lifeline of many organizations’ revenue. It is also the one folks who are used to coal and gas are most comfortable with.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

While businesses have traditionally focused narrowly on generating profits for shareholders, many nonprofits (despite their skills and dedication to their missions) have lacked adequate marketing skills (Billitteri, 2007), often resulting in financial hardship.

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Do You Need a “Communications Manager” or a “Community Manager” at Your Nonprofit?

NTEN

Since around 2008, the Community Manager has become a position in high demand in the business and nonprofit sectors. If you blend the job into one person, you have to make sure that person understands these two parts of the whole, and how they intermingle and influence each other.". Sometimes that works; other times it doesn't.".