5 Hard Questions Every Nonprofit Should Ask

Note: I’m heading out of the office for the next week and a half, but in my absence I want to offer a couple of blog posts from the Social Velocity archives. The one below appeared on the blog in February 2011.

Solving Urban Food Deserts: An Interview with Dennis Morrow

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Dennis Morrow, the Executive Director of Janus Youth Programs , a multi-service nonprofit agency that works with children, youth, and families in Portland, Oregon and Southwest Washington. Janus Youth caught my eye a few months ago when Village Market , a nonprofit inner city grocery store they launched, turned a year old

Doing Good Work is No Longer Enough
There is an increasing drumbeat in the world of social change that nonprofits must start measuring their work. Thought leaders like Mario Morino with Leap of Reason, Bill Shore’s recent ... Chatting About Social Entrepreneurship
As I announced in an earlier post, yesterday I participated in a Live Chat organized by the Foundation Center about social entrepreneurship. Abby Chroman from Ashoka joined me as a ... New E-Book: Money to Build Your Nonprofit
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve just released a new e-book called Money to Build Your Nonprofit: The Enormous Opportunity of Capacity Capital. Capacity Capital is a fairly new concept in ... How to Convince Your Board You Need a Strategic Plan
It amazes me how board members can sometimes stand in the way of the nonprofit for which they are supposedly the chief supporters.  And the executive director can be incredibly ... Are You a Social Entrepreneur?
I’m excited to report that a week from today, July 26th, I will be participating in a live online chat at the Foundation Center’s Grant Space website, titled “Are You ... The Savvy Nonprofit Business Model: An Interview with Kate Barr
In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Kate Barr, Executive Director of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, whose mission is to foster community development and vitality by building financially ... Raising Money to Grow On: Creating the Fundraising Pitch
In May 2011 I launched an ongoing blog series that profiles Social Velocity’s work with Charlotte Chamber Music, a small performing arts organization that has a big vision, but lacks ... Reinventing the Nonprofit Capital Campaign
Yesterday I wrote a post at the About.com Nonprofit blog about how nonprofits launching a capital campaign should consider a capacity capital campaign instead. You can read the whole post ...
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