A well-designed, user-friendly website can help you engage new members, raise money, and communicate with decision-makers. But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Nowadays, however, you don’t need [...]
Around election time, politicians like to talk-the-talk about the importance of small businesses to economic vitality. Often overlooked in the rhetoric is the contribution of new non-profit organizations to regional economies. Non-profits have the same ability to attract outside capital through donations and grant awards, increase employment, and produce a ripple effect of economic activity [...]
Social entrepreneurs who want to start a new venture quickly confront an important question: What type of legal structure should I create? Should I start a traditional nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between? This is not a simple question to answer, and it is in some ways becoming more difficult with the proliferation of [...]
am convinced that skill at fundraising and governance alone do not an excellent board member make. Nor do such skills alone ensure that a nonprofit organization maintains a durable, deep connection to the wider community it serves. A third skill—I call it civic reach—distinguishes a great board member from a merely adequate one, a world-class [...]
Few events move the heart and pocketbook like a natural disaster. After the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, millions of dollars began flowing to two local nonprofits on the front lines of disaster relief: Mercy Corps and Medical Teams International. But what exactly happens to the donations? How much goes to relief, how much to [...]
Talk about competition for attention: There are 1.5 million registered nonprofit groups in the U.S. Beyond the well-known names like the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society, the struggle to stand out is enormous. That’s where Jumo comes in, said Chris Hughes, Jumo’s founder and executive director and a cofounder of Facebook. The [...]
The Associated Press is expanding its project to distribute content from nonprofit news organizations to newspapers through delivery technology that will make it easier for newspapers to find and use the material. Newspapers, for the first time, will be able to request that feeds of nonprofit materials be delivered directly into their content management systems [...]
A recent New York Times article dove into the idea of organically creating the next Silicon Valley. Its author, Steven Davidoff, reviewed the different ingredients public and private sectors are adding to their entrepreneurial ecosystems and touched on a growing consensus that government does, and should, have a role in entrepreneurship. In illustrating this, Davidoff [...]