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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. www.enteef.com.

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

NonProfit Hub

An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. 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.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals. And each of us explained it a little differently.

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