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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Yet over time, perpetual naming gifts for facilities may prove detrimental to future generations.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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The Five Nonprofit Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2016

NonProfit Hub

Social media. Social media strategies. Corporate culture. Social Good Tech Week. Social Good Tech Week ’s official date is yet to be determined, but it will be held in the spring of next year in San Francisco. Follow Social Good Tech Week on Twitter. Like Social Good Tech Week on Facebook. Innovation.

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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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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

Transactional behavior in anthropology Across human cultures, whenever a relationship becomes transactional – or “strictly contingent” – giving stops. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 28 (2), 164-184; Küchler, L., Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Policy Press. 2020, September).

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How Kamala Harris Aces the 9 Leadership Power Tools (Even if She Doesn’t Know It)

Fundraising Leadership

I think being biracial also has the benefit of enabling her to live and work comfortably across many cultures. This understanding motivates her authentically to advocate for policies promoting equity, justice, and a future that reflects her values and the aspirations of the communities she represents. #2