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Move, Stay, or Pivot? Uncertain Times Make Career Choices Different For Many

Fundraising Leadership

While some fields suffered sudden layoffs, that stretch of time also enveloped many with a positive sense of possibility for entrepreneurship rallies and pivots into daring careers. But it is remarkably different from the Great Resignation sparked by COVID-19. Most all these moves are completely unexpected.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Liptrap “While Dorff admits he is ‘inspired’ by the social-entrepreneurship movement, he has no illusions about the benefit corporation. Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. Dorff, reviewed by J.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Given endemic market failure, the federal government must adjust to this reality. Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society. Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions?

Ethics 122
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Solving the ‘Founder’s Syndrome’ Problem in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

I came from a, a military background, so I’m an army veteran and, um, had a small business of my own, a small construction consulting firm long time ago, uh, when dinosaurs were long in the earth. It’s governed by a board of director and you, you run it. I’m responsible for everything ultimately. Tosha Anderson: Yeah.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. These economic enablers were then expanded into other dimensions. That reply created a desirable and feasible entry point.

Health 118