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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. And funders need to lead the way by establishing and investing in common infrastructures and hubs for collaboration.

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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For many, SME growth is seen as more of an enabling environment or an SME financing problem, not something philanthropy for philanthropy to address. There is a clear argument that this could be a for-profit social enterprise model, with revenue generated through transactions. Not philanthropy’s problem.

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Merging and Acquisitions as a Strategic Tool for Nonprofit Growth

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Not all mergers require such significant investment, but since nonprofits cant bank profits for future investmentand social enterprises often struggle to maintain margins that would support rapid growththis leaves us primarily dependent on fundraising campaigns and specific investable moments as vehicles for scaling.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When enough mutualist networks and organizations are active, you may even wind up with an ecosysteman abundance of shared resources, experience, social capital, and financing, both centralized and grassroots, all sustaining projects serving a wide variety of community needs. million children.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. The company has pledged to procure five percent of its spend from social enterprises and companies led by underrepresented founders by 2025. Consider SAP’s 2020 5 & 5 by 25 announcement.

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Scaling a Nonprofit: Lessons from Southside Blooms’ Rapid Growth

The Charity CFO

Funding Mix and Donor Relations Southside Blooms’ current funding mix is approximately: 45% earned revenue from their social enterprise 55% philanthropic support Interestingly, Blackwell found that as their business side grew stronger, it became easier to secure larger philanthropic grants. Get the free guide!

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders. Our mission is to challenge systemic barriers in finance and lead a shift to a community-driven framework for equitable capital. EFOD stands for “equitable food-oriented development.”

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