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Making Change the New Norm
It occurred to me in two conversations I had this morning that small change can create large change, but how exactly does that happen? My first conversation was a phone call with George Overholser,...
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A Revolution in Nonprofit Finance: An Interview with Clara Miller
Last month we kicked off a new, monthly Social Velocity blog interview series where I interview leading thinkers and doers in the social innovation space. Our inaugural interview was with Kevin Jones...
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A Radical Spin on Capital Campaigns: An Interview with George Overholser, Part 1
In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we are talking with George Overholser, Founder and Managing Director of NFF Capital Partners, a division of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. George is a...
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A Radical Spin on Capital Campaigns: An Interview with George Overholser, Part 2
As promised, today we are bringing you Part 2 of our interview with George Overholser from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. You can read Part 1 here. Nell: You have argued before that to transform the...
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Can’t Small Nonprofits Raise Capital Too?
In our two part interview with George Overholser of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, George made an argument that gave me and some of my readers pause. He argued that only the largest nonprofits can really...
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The Awkwardness of it All: SoCap and the Nonprofit World
I’ll give a full rundown of my Day 1 experience at SoCap in a later post, but first I have to admit my excited anticipation of this year’s Social Capital Markets conference encountered some...
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Financing Not Fundraising: Find Money for Building Capacity
Part 6 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, demonstrates the critical importance of money for building nonprofit capacity and describes how to find it. There must be a recognition in...
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A Place for Government in Social Innovation?: An Interview with Laura Tomasko
In this month’s Social Velocity interview we are talking with Laura Tomasko. While she shares her millennial generation’s passion for social innovation, she sees a real opportunity, that many dismiss,...
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A Case Study in Raising Money to Grow On
Last fall I wrote a blog post arguing that small nonprofits need access to philanthropic equity (money to build their organizations) just as much as larger, more sophisticated nonprofits do. My post...
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