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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online. Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone.

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Research Friday: Government contracting in the new normal

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit Finance Fund’s (NFF) 2013 State of the Sector survey explored a variety of financial and management challenges facing organizations across the country. Particularly in the last several years, in the wake of the financial crisis, organizations have struggled with a variety of challenges related to government support.

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Research Friday: Government contracting part II: Adapting in an era of less

ASU Lodestar Center

Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. As part of a.

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 Silicon Valley’s newly wealthy philanthropists and community based organizations lack information about one another, don’t use the same language or models, and don’t move in the same circles, leading to an empathy gap.

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Research Friday: Transforming the mindset from charitable giving to the social economy

ASU Lodestar Center

Lucy Bernholz, in a report coproduced by Grantcraft , Stanford PACS and the Stanford Social Innovation Review , titled Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint for 2013 (hereafter, “the Blueprint”) challenges readers to think about a new paradigm which looks at all “private resources for public good” (p.2), Like this article?

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NextGen philanthropists and the transfer of intergenerational wealth

ASU Lodestar Center

Will the next generation really create new institutions and models? References: NextGenDonors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy (2013). Like this article? Read Angela Francis and Anjali Deshmukh''s " Research Friday: Government contracting in the new normal.". Will they dive into new funding mechanisms?

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Research Friday: The Real Impact of Collective Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

In Kania and Kramer’s article [1] , they discuss the key elements to successful collective impact. Brian Spicker: What's wonderful about that article is it’s something I think all of us in the social sector have been working on, they just happened to present it elegantly. Like this article? Below is part of the interview.

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