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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. National Council of Nonprofits (a national one). Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. How do you sort out the bad guys? I could go on. think tank.

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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. The federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Navajo Indian Nation and Puerto Rico. In essence, it operates to better social welfare in some way.

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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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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

He made a comment on Michael Kaiser's fairly formulaic "great artists lead the nation" post, laying bare the banality of most of the language used to describe and present art experiences to the public. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

Connection Cafe

Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. In the end, it will take a blending of each to establish energy (fundraising) equilibrium, and the recipe could be quite different from one nation (organization) to the next.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. After that he was a freelance journalist, writing for The New York Times , The Nation , Harper's Weekly , Mother Jones , Redbook. among many other publications.