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Teaching inner-city kids business skills to build their confidence and aspirations.
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Sticking Together
A California mayor’s challenge leads to an innovative resource-pooling strategy.
The Sound of No Music
Like many nonprofits, the Oakland Symphony failed to understand the distinction between mission and strategy.
Common Bonds
Two Chicago nonprofit job training programs find strength and stability in a merger.
Need to Know
Guerrilla marketing surveys power Urban Peak.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
For Love or Lucre
A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
A New Type of Hybrid
Social entrepreneurs have taken the hybrid model to a new level, crafting it into a single structure that can operate as both a for-profit and a nonprofit.