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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Bridgespan was birthed out of Bain’s desire to expand its support of nonprofits. In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. BRIDGESPAN HISTORY . Bridgespan is the offspring of none other than consulting industry giant Bain & Company. Group Consulting.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

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How to Manage Resistance in Consulting ? Part 1 of 3: What is.

Consulting and Organizational Management

After all, the way your client’s organization has been operating in the past is because one or more people felt strongly that their organization should be operating that way (even though that way they were operating may have caused their problems and is actually what needs to be changed). Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

For example, say I’m working with a team of people representing a bottling operation in a brewery, and the team has figured out how to redesign the bottling operation to reduce costs, simplify the process, and increase production. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development.

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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.