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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

In a field that is known for the lack of capacity building and infrastructure funding, nonprofits must be strategic in how they allocate time, treasure, and talent. The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members).

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#BBCON 2016| What’s in It for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

Being Part of a Funder’s Portfolio: Perspectives on the Public and Private Funding Landscape: Come learn from Dr. Kathryn Mathew, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main provider of federal support within the United States for museums and libraries.

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Why investing in leadership development is a wise strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

Assuming this challenge persists and more funding for capacity-building does not become available, organizations need to build leadership development into day-to-day practices. Adam has worked as a program director and program coordinator for The Foundation for Tomorrow and Support for International Change, respectively.

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Philanthropy needs to change, but what can be done in fundraising for equity now?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Select socially responsible investments.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

It's pretty amazing what these folks have created, like Dan Newman, the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org , a non-partisan non-profit that illuminates the connection between money and politics (you can read my interview with him here ). I'm the Founder and Executive Director of the Freecycle Network.