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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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Guest Post: Considering a Commons in Collection at the Elsewhere Collaborative

Museum 2.0

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale.

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Cross-Sector Skill Sharing in Action

Connection Cafe

And it can provide valuable external perspective on a nonprofit’s service delivery model or internal processes. Nonprofits should also feel confident in their service model and business processes while being open to new solutions from their volunteer partners. Developing agile project management skills.

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Hackerspaces: DIY Science Centers for Adults

Museum 2.0

Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. It's interesting to think about this in the context of museums like the Museum of Life and Science in North Carolina, which is trying to position itself as a "member-focused institution." The institution IS the members.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

Our guest today came highly recommended from someone I’ve known and trusted for many, many years, Marie Palacios is joining us from beautiful Western North Carolina, as she was saying before. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? Marie, how are you doing? You doing okay?

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We're hoping to revive it with new funding, and have already committed to developing more content with our partner, the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. News flash. TechCrunch.

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