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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management.

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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money. These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

The center’s director, Brian Bartholomeusz, told her that technology like hers was exactly the kind of technology he was trying to transfer out of the lab, and he encouraged her to apply for a grant. All of our early funding came from either nonprofit or government sources.”

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Types of Consultants - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

Recently, the terms “functional” and “focused” have been used to refer to servicing a specific system, function or process, for example, marketing systems, financial systems or information technology. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Types of Consulting Can Overlap. Crisis Management. Facilitation.

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FinTech Is Weaving Charitable Giving into Everyday Transactions

Harvard Business

Technology that provides accessibility to giving can now be embedded into everyday experiences, like commerce, and this makes it possible for nonprofits to affordably accept donations of any size and for everyone to participate in philanthropy at the levels they can give. In 2015, more than $10.5

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Several attendees wanted to form a more permanent working group; so they established a nonprofit organization called the Agile Alliance to support the movement. Most members of the original group, joined by a number of new adherents, reconvened later in the year to discuss ways to disseminate agile principles.

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How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality

Harvard Business

Sixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.