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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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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Within the arena of startup incubators, however, Benetech’s social enterprise business model and Benetech Labs’ approach are unique. The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. Let me explain how this is so.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

My TechSoup Global colleague Lewis Haidt was at the conference as well and penned Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy , which provides a good primer on what it is and how a nonprofit-centric sharing economy can benefit all of us. Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! )

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Nonprofit CRM: Comparing the Top Solutions for Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

We’ve written a comprehensive guide to Raiser’s Edge NXT that covers the key features of the solution and which organizations are most likely to benefit from using it. Salesforce has been a well-known provider of enterprise-sized for-profit CRM software for decades. Blackbaud CRM. Salesforce’s Nonprofit Success Pack.

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Nonprofits: The Legal Requirements of Starting Your Own

ASU Lodestar Center

their expansion has grown at twice the rate of for-profit organizations. New classes of businesses known as Benefit Corporations were established to serve just this purpose. Is your organization looking to only benefit a targeted, geographical region? Currently there are over one million nonprofit organizations in the U.S.;

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

By using tools that are owned by everyone, you know you aren't building your work in a way that depends on or benefits any one corporation or institution, but building your work in a way that benefits everyone. . So what should non-profit tech folks be doing to prepare for the opportunities of "the future"? .