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When is a Donation Not a Donation?

The Nonprofit Consultant

When it's a situation where the supporter believes they've a donation, but the nonprofit does not see it that way. Such as, a small nonprofit puts a link to Amazon on their website, because they get a few pennies back from each book sale as part of the "associates" program. Now, I have a little bit of evidence.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants.

Consulting and Organizational Management

John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Crisis Management. Customer Service.

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Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

The organization is people and technologies, which are matched together to produce an outcome, a product or a service. Think of technology in the broadest sense: Technology=Methodology. It is about the steps we take to produce a finished product and we call that series of steps “a process.”. Think about an accounting firm.

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