The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

They tackle everything from local environmental efforts to major global humanitarian causes. This is where a business plan steps in, a pivotal element that spells the difference between a fleeting endeavor and an enduring legacy. A business plan isn’t just paperwork; it’s the cornerstone holding everything together.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . They treat it like a for-profit business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

People take the ideas and start to do things with the idea – this phase is crucial in a new paradigm. Each story enters a Sense Making System (a web service and software provided by Cognitive Edge, a global network of practitioners dedicated to helping create meaning and sense in complex situations). Then comes isolated action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen set forth the “Innovator’s Dilemma” which states that companies that have accomplished great change are reluctant to adopt the next disruptive innovation because of its impact on the existing successful business. And that’s what we did with Bookshare! The first was the ebook.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We weren’t on Tumblr and already had our small staff pretty busy. Our initial strategy had three phases: Pre-MCON engagement: Promote upcoming conference – speakers, topics, locality. Share research data and analysis. MCON 2014. , Intriguing? A little intimidating? Today, we’re at nearly 9,800 and growing daily.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Problem: AnnieCannons employs only three full-time staff members in their fight against human trafficking, which means it needs to be as efficient as possible in managing its contacts and business processes. However, AnnieCannons is also like a business, which is where data and process management gets a little more complicated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. But there is an up front investment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Analysis from the CIA and State Department was summarily dismissed when it did not help the Administration make the case for war. I say this because war is a serious business. troop pull-outs, but a time-frame for such a phased withdrawal. I say all this not to score cheap political points.

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