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HBS Working Knowledge
October 27, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits Nonprofit boards and executives are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly evolving rules, and changing opportunities for finding resources.   |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2004
Allison H. Fine |
Blending the Bottom Line Nonprofits and grantmakers must meet each other halfway to move toward outcomes-focused approaches to collaboration. |
AFP eWire
April 25, 2005 |
Youth Nonprofits Experience Significant Growing Pains According to a recent study, youth-serving nonprofits endure significant challenges when trying to grow their organizations. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 1, 2010 |
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting The most difficult task for socially responsible companies is how to report the value of their work to a diverse group of stakeholders. Here's a starting place. |
AFP eWire
May 31, 2004 |
IRS to Examine Nonprofit Executive Pay The director of exempt organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that the agency plans to take a close look at how much top executives at nonprofit organizations are being paid. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004 |
For Nonprofits, "It's a How Crisis" Professor and author Paul Light says the biggest problem is underinvestment in infrastructure, which leads to more inefficiency at nonprofits. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 15, 2008
Roger Thompson |
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise Social enterprise as an entity is primarily in the business of creating social value, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. |
Searcher
February 2004
Hazel Cameron |
The Nonprofit Phenomenon Internet resources for nonprofit organizations |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 14, 2005
Manda Salls |
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands Coca-Cola, move over. Many of the world's best-known brands belong to nonprofits, but the brand management issues these organizations face can be quite different. |
AFP eWire
November 20, 2006 |
Accountability, Impact Build Trust in Nonprofits for Wealthy Donors Providing evidence of what their contributions have accomplished and abiding by high levels of accountability are the two critical ways that nonprofits can build trust, especially for wealthy donors, according to a new survey. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 29, 2005
Manda Salls |
How Organizations Create Social Value A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2005
Gerald R. Solomon |
The New Conversation for Capacity Building Looking beyond institutionalized definitions can help the nonprofit sector reshape its approach to capacity building. |
Entrepreneur
September 2004
Chris Penttila |
Heart of Gold Nonprofits are reaping the rewards of starting for-profit ventures. Baltimore's Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity, for example, expects its new venture to generate an additional $100,000 in revenue during its first full year of operation. |
CRM
February 2010
Jessica Tsai |
Helping Hands The nonprofit sector needs CRM more than it knows, but its relationships are with donors, members, or activists - and technology is rarely a cause worth fighting for. Will the low cost of on-demand solutions finally allow nonprofits to embrace CRM? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Lee Draper |
Where the Money is: Tapping Overlooked Sources of Support for Nonprofits Where will the funding come from to enable nonprofits to serve more people? How can nonprofits find the capital to reorganize for greater efficiency and economies of scale or to invest in new ways to address growing social needs? |
CRM
August 12, 2015
Gabe Cooper |
Why Nonprofits Deserve CRM Innovation With charitable giving exceeding $298 billion in the U.S. alone, it's time that software companies gave nonprofits the attention they deserve by creating technology that truly serves their needs. |
AFP eWire
August 9, 2011 |
What is Your Funding Strategy? Find out how your organization fits into these models so you can better articulate your funding strategy to funders and constituents. |
AFP eWire
September 1, 2009 |
The Vicious Cycle of Low Overhead Nonprofit leaders say it's time to break the cycle of unrealistic expectations for overhead spending. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 26, 2004
Manda Salls |
The Next Ten Years of Social Enterprise Harvard Business School hears suggestions on how to direct the efforts of its Social Enterprise Initiative over the next ten years. |
CRM
February 2010
Jessica Tsai |
The Lowest Cost of All Why the nonprofit sector should embrace social media and viral marketing. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
David A. Twibell |
Helping Nonprofits Profit Small and midsize nonprofit organizations can be great clients for financial advisors, but understanding their unique needs is critical to success. |
AFP eWire
November 3, 2008 |
Website Features User Feedback on U.S. Charities A new website called GreatNonprofits allows donors to post reviews and ratings of charities. Charities, in turn, are able to customize their page and ask for donations. |
AFP eWire
June 19, 2012 |
Websites, Email Newsletters Still Important to Smartphone-Wielding Young People Technology is changing rapidly, but there is good news for nonprofits and fundraisers trying to keep up. For one, websites and email are by no means obsolete, a recent survey of young people indicates. |
AFP eWire
July 14, 2009 |
New Report Measures Nonprofit Brands A new study found that several leading nonprofits may not be sufficiently leveraging their brand to further increase their revenue. |
AFP eWire
July 28, 2008 |
Overhead Costs Too Low, You Say? Watch Your Mouth! An analysis by The Bridgespan Group argues that strategic and proper investments in fundraising overhead are necessary for growth and sustainability. |
Job Journal
November 7, 2004
Julia Hollister |
Nonprofits Ideal for Careers with Care Nonprofit work might be a way of breaking new ground. Because you may be the only one in your department, you often have autonomy. And you can learn to be a jack-of-all-trades. |
AFP eWire
February 5, 2013
Karen Reiner |
Reel Impact: How Fundraisers Can Successfully Use Video Don't be intimated by video. If used correctly, it's a versatile tool that drives emotion, reinforces your messaging and increases the opportunity for people to open their wallets. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Katherine Noyes |
Nonprofits Need Metrics Too We spoke with Doug Barker, vice president and CIO for The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Va., about the importance of valuation and metrics for nonprofit organizations... |
Job Journal
November 23, 2008
Shelly Cryer |
A New Day in the Nonprofit Sector The dynamic, evolving, and rapidly expanding nonprofit sector offers abundant career opportunities -- and plenty of jobs providing a livable salary. |
AFP eWire
September 10, 2007 |
Fundraising No Longer Confined to Development Positions More and more nonprofits are asking non-development staffers to get involved in the fundraising process. |
CFO
January 10, 2007
Joseph McCafferty |
Misgivings Recent studies raise an uncharitable question: Is nonprofit accounting off track? |
AFP eWire
March 27, 2006 |
Nonprofit Executives Burning Out, Planning to Leave Jobs A survey of almost 2,000 nonprofit executives found that 75 percent are planning on leaving their jobs within five years, while another 10 percent are already in the process of switching job. |
AFP eWire
January 10, 2012 |
Key Trends for the Nonprofit Sector in 2012 The biggest impact on the nonprofit sector in 2012 will be the maturation of social media and mobile giving, a greater role for peer-to-peer engagement, and a move toward donors dictating the terms of interactions. |
CRM
May 28, 2014 |
Salesforce.com Foundation Unveils Salesforce1 for Nonprofits New solutions offer tools for program management, community engagement, marketing communications, and fundraising. |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2013 |
Attention Small Nonprofits -- Donor Screening Services Are More Tangible Than You Think Even the smallest nonprofit can benefit from the resources available to the larger nonprofits, if they create a set of reasonable goals and expectations. |
Inc.
May 1, 2002
Donna Fenn |
Shaking the Foundations Sanjay Chopra is an astute donor. The founder of two technology companies recently joined 59 other fledgling philanthropists to give $50,000 to KidsVoice, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that provides legal services to children in juvenile court... |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2005
Wing et al. |
Paying for Not Paying for Overhead Many nonprofits are sacrificing organizational infrastructure needs to tell foundations what they want to hear about overhead costs. |
AFP eWire
January 26, 2004 |
Fundraising Costs Project Conducts Case Studies An ongoing study to evaluate nonprofit fundraising and administrative costs is expected to release new findings in 2004. |
AFP eWire
November 24, 2009 |
Most Nonprofits Experimenting With Social Media, But Struggle to Measure Value for Organization While seen as a good way to communicate with broad audiences and mobilize volunteer support, nonprofit executives are skeptical about social media's ability to reach donors, media and policy makers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
Carla Tishler |
The Growth of the Social Enterprise To branch or affiliate? Different organizational structures have different strategic implications for nonprofit expansion, say Harvard's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson. |
AFP eWire
June 25, 2007 |
Pyrrhic Fundraising While it "takes money to make money," nonprofits actually lose money -- at least in the short term -- when they try to raise funds through direct marketing. |
AFP eWire
August 14, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (August 14, 2013) Is your nonprofit resonating with millennials?... How to get donors to give month after month... Helping the Poor Is No Longer a Priority for Today's Nonprofits... |
AFP eWire
March 16, 2009 |
Nonprofits Pinched in Changing Economic Landscape A new report reveals some of the challenges faced by the nonprofit sector as a result of the economy and provides public policy recommendations to help spur nonprofit recovery. |
AFP eWire
November 3, 2008 |
Members Share Insights on Nonprofit CEO Salaries Readers think nonprofit CEOs are not paid too much. |
AFP eWire
July 31, 2012
Andrea McManus |
Nonprofits play crucial role in public policy decisions The most powerful aspect of lobbying by nonprofits is their ability to inspire individual Canadians to action by participating in our public policy and government processes. |
AFP eWire
June 7, 2004 |
U.S. Nonprofit Employment Rate Increasing Faster Than Business, Government Employees at nonprofits now represent 9.5 percent -- 12.5 million individuals -- of all employees in the United States. The total number of employees working in the nonprofit sector has doubled in the last 25 years. |
Job Journal
November 30, 2008 |
First Steps on a Nonprofit Career Path Inside insights on how to be in the right place at the right cause. |
AFP eWire
August 20, 2007 |
Most Nonprofit Boards Not Diverse or Involved in Fundraising Just 29 percent of boards were described as "very active" in fundraising, while 35 percent were ranked as "not at all active." |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Amy Feldman |
Philanthropy: Rethinking How to Give A growing movement to review and rate charities on their real world results may give donors a better idea where they can do the most good |
AFP eWire
September 8, 2008 |
Recruit and Retain Quality Nonprofit Employees Organizations hoping to hire quality employees need to sell prospects on the big picture - focusing on rewards that come in other forms than a big paycheck, according to a recent roundtable of nonprofit recruiters, workforce experts and nonprofit practitioners. |
