Fundraising
Ephemeral Perpetuity? Transforming Endowments Into Annuities
Funders who insist that organizations build endowments dilute those organizations’ efforts to raise annual operating funds.
Tag: Organizational Sustainability
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Fundraising
The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success
The Non Nonprofit outlines how strategies used by leading companies can also be utilized by nonprofits.
Nonprofit Management
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
Nonprofit Management
The Trajectories of Organizations in Growth and Decline
An organization that attempts to do too much, too fast will almost certainly decline as quickly as it grows.
Board Governance
A Holiday Gift for Your Board: A Refreshed Dashboard
Refresh your dashboard to better inform your board's decisions.
Socially Responsible Business
Connecting Heart to Head
Leaders of Alcoa and PUMA, two forward-looking multibillion-dollar global companies, describe a framework for sustainable growth.
Foundations
To Spend Out, or Not To Spend Out? What Every Foundation Should Ask Itself
An analysis of the perspectives and value of the debate of whether foundations should spend out.
Podcast
Global Issues
The Future of the Healthcare Sector
Migliori emphasizes the need for change in the healthcare system in order for it to become more sustainable.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurs Must Achieve Not Survive
The sector needs to shift the definition of success from organizations that survive to organizations that actually achieve their missions.
Podcast
Social Innovations
Leveraging Business Assets in Nonprofit
Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite, argues that nonprofit organizations have a lot to learn from the business practices of the private sector if they wish to maximize their impact.