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Elect Your Local Arts Manager!

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Government, Arts Management, Arts Manager, Donors, Arts, For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, Non Profit Leadership, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

It has struck me recently that people who ascend to high government positions -- as mayors, governors or even presidents -- could do worse than to learn from arts leaders and other not-for-profit executives about creating loyal families of supporters.

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If You Think Making Money Is Hard, Try a Nonprofit

Marty Zwilling | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: For-Profit, Challenges, Business, Entrepreneur, Startups Nonprofit, Startups Business, Entrepreneur Startups, Nonprofit, Profit Startups Business, Small Business News
Marty Zwilling

A common misconception I often hear in the start-up world is that nonprofits are easy and safe, since they don't have to pay taxes, and they don't have to make a profit for their shareholders. Exactly the opposite is true.

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Can Going Beyond Profit Make Us Happier?

Somik Raha | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Wisdom, Real Profit, Apple, Profit, Money, For Profit, Business, Wall Street, Non for Profit, Business News
Somik Raha

Money is necessary, but to think that the reason I am in business is to make my lenders happy isn't right. My definition of business is service: focus on it and compensation will follow.

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

There's An App For That: Going To College Via Smartphone

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: App, Itunes, College, University of Phoenix, Degrees, Online, For-Profit, Technology, Uofp, Phoenixmobile, Learning, College News

Mobile devices now offer yet another option for a generation adept at distraction -- behold, going to college by smartphone. Earlier this week, the...

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An Increasingly Important Debate: Microfinance as a Non-Profit or Possible IPO?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Ipo, Check Cashing, Microfinance, For Profit, Alex Counts, Grameen, Sks, Payday Loans, Vikram Akula, Investors, Business News
Vivian Norris

Nonprofit Microlending is based on trust. For profit lending is not. This is a huge difference, and it's possible the latter could turn into a repeat of the villager loan shark mode

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Musings on Start Ups and Entrepreneurship

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sven Goran Eriksson, Promigrant.org, Tom Krause, Colin Powell, CrossLeft.Org, Non-Profit, Frederick Smith, Mahatma Gandhi, Failure, Latism, Chris Rabb, Success, Institute for Progressive Christianity, For Profit, Kety Esquivel, Progressive Women in Politics, Benjamin Franklin, Home News
Kety Esquivel

My friend Chris Rabb (from AfroNetizen, writer, consultant, speaker, fellow at Demos and visiting researcher at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson ...

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Banning Earmarks

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Earmark Ban, Eric Massa, John McCain, Pentagon, House, Lobbying, Corporation, Budget, Democrat, Mccain, Congress, Democrats, Lobbyist, Republican, Pelosi, Earmarks, Chris Weigant, For Profit, Bidding War, Ethics, Nancy Pelosi, Obey, Norm Dicks, Senate, David Obey, Massa, Earmark, Politics News
Chris Weigant

It's more fun to watch Massa's implosion on nationwide television, but we shouldn't allow this to distract us from what could shape up this year as a contest between Democrats and Republicans over who can denounce earmarks the loudest.

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Not For-Profit, Not Non-Profit, But Somewhere In Between

Halle Tecco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Enterprise, Non-Profits, For-Profit, B-Corporation, Impact News
Halle Tecco

B Corp is allowing entrepreneurs like this to transcend the bifurcation of how we used to classify organizations, and find a comfortable structure somewhere in between.

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Start-Up Capital for For-Profit Social Entrepreneurs, Part 2: A Resource Guide

Rachael Chong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nonprofit, Social Enterprise, For-Profit, Socially Responsible Investing, Social Venture, Social Entrepreneurship, Start-Up Capital, Start-Ups, Impact News
Rachael Chong

For the second part of my series on start-up capital for social entrepreneurs, I've created a list of investors, incubators, networks and other resources that support start-up social ventures in the U.S.

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Focus on Results

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Girl Scouts, Focus, Peter Drucker, Foundation, Non-Profits, For-Profit, Frances Hesselbein, Mentality, Results, Healthy Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Here are a few suggestions for those looking to make their institution more focused on results.

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Jim Luce Returns (In Part) to Corporate America

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Togo, Elite Group International, Funding Non-Profits, Orphans, Non-Profits, Philanthropic Initiatives, Lucetec, Philanthropy, Ngo, Luce Foundation, Messan Minyanou, For Profit, Corporate America, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Orphans International Worldwide, International NGO, Egi, World News
Jim Luce

I am excited today about the non-profit Orphans International now having the opportunity to attract the professionals it needs to move forward as I step aside.

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