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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Interest in exploring these models has been rising in the United States, but they are much more common in Europe. The traditional method of receiving tax-deductible donations is to file for 501(c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, an application for 501(c)(3) status designed for a religious, charitable, or educational purpose.

Model 53
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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. In the space of two months recently we were able to pull together capacity builders in Southeast Asia and technologists in Eastern Europe to cross traditional borders.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

I always think of the consciousness that must have been possessed by the Masons who laid the foundations of those cathedrals in Europe that took four centuries to build. So we figured that if we did a weekend event, The Green Festival, that would get us to know this green economy movement, build some credibility.

Global 40