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One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings
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The Reluctant Social Entrepreneur
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleKathy Giusti never had any desire to be an entrepreneur, especially not one in the nonprofit sector. She was on the fast track at a huge corporation-and... -
Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central... -
Nonprofit Sector's $100 Billion Opportunity
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleImagine what an extra $100 billion a year could do for philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions. According to a new study, the nonprofit sector... -
Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNonprofits are putting hard numbers on the value of their brands, many of which consumers trust highly. Such organizations are hoping brand valuation... -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs U.S. nonprofits take on an increasing share of society's work, they face mounting pressure from stakeholders - donors, boards, employees - to show... -
How Nonprofits Can Encourage Donors to Give More
Nonprofit organizations Digital ArticleThree research-backed strategies. -
Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDuring the past two decades, the number of charitable foundations in the United States has doubled while the value of their assets has increased more... -
Disaster Relief, Inc.
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhen disaster strikes, many corporations respond generously. After the 2004 tsunami, for instance, U.S. firms alone contributed more than half of a billion... -
How Companies Can Partner with Nonprofits
Global Business Digital ArticleDone well, these partnerships can boost growth, shareholder value, and societal impact. -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
EBay's Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen eBay's IPO in September 1998 made Omidyar wealthier than he'd ever imagined, he and his fiancee, Pam (now his wife), decided to create a nonprofit... -
Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost nonprofits make program decisions based on a mission rather than a strategy. They rally under the banner of a particular cause. And because their... -
Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
How Philanthropists Can Diversify Their Grantmaking Portfolios
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt's about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk. -
What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThis form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it's relatively common in Europe. -
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleA guide for social entrepreneurs
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Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused... -
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Do you-as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business-know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions... -
Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2010, the beating of a 30-year-old bonded laborer-his punishment for staying home sick from work-in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan... -
Cancer Health Alliance of Metropolitan Chicago: Working Together to Achieve Mutual Goals
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how four independent, community-based nonmedical centers that offered professional services and programs to cancer patients on a voluntary non-fee... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward... -
ArthaKranti: Need for Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the situation faced by a Trust named ArthaKranti. ArthaKranti (meaning economic revolution) was formed in 2005 to offer an unconventional... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children... -
Cycle for Survival (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Update on Cycle for Survival's 2012, 2013, and 2014 events. Kotkins and Cycle for Survival continued the event's strong growth, and underwent the first... -
Lyric Opera of Chicago: Setting the Scene to Grow Ticket Sales
Management Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2022, the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Lyric), a major opera company, is facing a deepening challenge. Lyric has seen ticket sales decrease,... -
Nate Chooses a Business Entity
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case follows Nate Jamison as he determines which business entity to form for his growing City Moving Company (City Moving) in Washington, DC. From... -
Escudo Rojo: A Salvation Army Initiative and Its Economic Growth Options
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case analyzes a successful economic initiative (Red Shield), whose profits help support a legendary religious institution (The Salvation Army) while... -
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on... -
Steve Mariotti and NFTE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization... -
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making... -
Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to... -
Sy Friedland and JF&CS
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Radically innovative thinker Sy Friedland was a decade or more ahead of the trends when he took the reins of Boston's venerable Jewish Children & Family... -
In the Shadow of the City
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa,... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case KE1110 This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state...
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Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused... -
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Do you-as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business-know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions... -
Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2010, the beating of a 30-year-old bonded laborer-his punishment for staying home sick from work-in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan... -
Cancer Health Alliance of Metropolitan Chicago: Working Together to Achieve Mutual Goals
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how four independent, community-based nonmedical centers that offered professional services and programs to cancer patients on a voluntary non-fee... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward... -
ArthaKranti: Need for Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the situation faced by a Trust named ArthaKranti. ArthaKranti (meaning economic revolution) was formed in 2005 to offer an unconventional... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children... -
Cycle for Survival (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Update on Cycle for Survival's 2012, 2013, and 2014 events. Kotkins and Cycle for Survival continued the event's strong growth, and underwent the first...