ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

So what I’ve seen happen has been around Valley of the Sun United Way ’s "ending homeless” objective, and we've focused around chronically homeless. So, by focusing collectively around the chronically homeless we’ve made some wonderful strides. Most of us know the pitfalls to this kind of collaboration.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Additionally, pursuing impact investments may short a nonprofit’s focus to creating a more business-like model that might not necessarily work for the benefit of its target population (Ategeka, 2016). These organizations were VisionSpring, Code.org, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, and the Mental Health Center of Denver.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The nonprofit sector has the ability to achieve significant social change through collaboration across sectors. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Many leaders are working towards collaboration; however, “larger cultural contexts remain firmly anchored to the myth of the heroic individual leader” (Senge, et. Understanding how a nonprofit leader can catalyze and guide systemic development to foster collaboration may lead to creating effective change on a greater scale.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2022

Rockefeller’s and Carnegie’s philanthropy continues to remain the main model for funding nonprofits, yet with increasing diversity (over the next two decades minorities will comprise more than half the population) these models based on white dominant norms will become increasingly irrelevant.

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