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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. But it was just my feeling that this was happening.

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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

Early adopters of microfinance wanted to prove that it was a commercially viable product, deserving space in an investor’s portfolio alongside real estate and the stock market. By 2010, they had succeeded. How do these challenges apply to impact investment?

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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. Nonprofit Capacity Building. We take clients into the unknown all the time and we need to foster a direct experience of it ourselves. Read more.].

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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.”. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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