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Merging Wisely

With the economy in turmoil, funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to merge. Yet mergers are not always the right path for nonprofits in financial distress. For a healthier nonprofit sector, funders should consider a wider variety of partnership ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2010)

How & Why to Make the Shift from Dialogue to Collaboration with NGOs

This article discusses the need for and ways in which sustainable businesses and social enterprises can work to effectively partner with nonprofit organizations. Author Jeff Erikson contends that "moving from exchanging to collaborating requires ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2012)

TEMASOL: Providing Energy Access to Remote Rural Households in Morocco

In Morocco, despite the government’s efforts to expand its grid-based coverage, about 9% of the rural population could not be cost-effectively connected. Given that Morocco enjoys 3,000 hours of sun per year, solar energy was therefore thought to be a ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Discovering High Value Food Commodities for BOP Farmers Living in Tropical and Arid Lands

Booker T. Whatley (1987) showed small farmers in the United States how they could make a great deal of money and lower risk by growing “High Value Food Commodities” on “Pick-Your-Own” farms. In this paper I provide some ideas on how high value food ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Urbanscape New Challenges Newer Solutions: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 18

In this issue of Beyond Profit we look at some key challenges that cities and their residents face, and potential solutions. In her cover story, Nisha Kumar Kulkarni addresses the problem of food security and the relatively new model of urban agriculture. ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

The Partnering Toolbook

The Partnering Toolbook builds on the experience of those who have been at the forefront of innovative partnerships and offers a concise overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering that helps advance the goal of an organization. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2003)

Government and Social Innovation: Current State and Local Models

This article offers an analysis of other models that have developed over the past several years, especially in the three years since the founding of Louisiana’s Office of Social Entrepreneurship. At all levels of government, these new frameworks for ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2010)

Venture Capital for Social Enterprise: SCP's Approach to the Social Capital Market

We started Social Capital Partner in September 2001 to fill a gap in the voluntary and CED sectors. After a year of research we had come to the conclusion that this "market" required a new type of funding organization that was designed expressly ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Training and Production Facility Nr. 1: Creating Jobs and Opportunities for the Hearing- Impaired

Turkmenistan’s post-Soviet transition to a market economy has had a considerable impact on its social protection system. One of the most noticeable absences in policies regarding disabilities is the lack of incentives to help integrate people with physical ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Waste Concern : A Decentralized Community-based composting through public-private-community partnership

The perilous waste management situation in densely populated Dhaka city with about 12 million people motivated Iftekhar and Maqsood, two young and dynamic urban planners, to form a research-based non-governmental organization (NGO) in the field of waste ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Voronezh Oblast – Banking the Unbanked in Remote Areas of the Russian Federation

The Voronezh Oblast State Fund for Small Business Support (hereafter referred to as ‘the Fund’) in cooperation with a multitude of partners started to provide microfinance services and mobile banking for micro-and small businesses in 2009 in the remote ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Marap: Reforestation and the Creation of Sustainable Jobs in Impoverished Rural Communities

This case study describes a project by Marap GmbH that aimed to meet global demand for its products, while also creating sustainable jobs in impoverished rural communities and protect the environment in an emerging market Uzbekistan. Austria-based Marap is ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Industrijski Otpad: Turning Waste into Opportunity

This case study describes how one married couple started a self-sustainable enterprise despite unfavorable conditions in a country still recovering from civil war. Located in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the business, Industrijski Otpad Ltd1 is based ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Q&A Best Bits: Working in Collaboration and Consortia (A Round up of Our Experts Advice on How Consortia Can Deliver Better Services and Ways You Can Support Collaboration in Your Social Enterprise)

Penny Fell: Head of new business at the Social Investment Business. SIB provides finance, knowledge and expertise to the third sector. Have a framework in place and make sure all partners are fully on board: I have witnessed a number of big charities form ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2010)

Forging Through Adversity: The Blacksmiths of North Darfur and Practical Action

The blacksmiths of El-Fashir are among the most socially excluded castes in Darfur. Only a few generations ago they were still congregating at the outskirts of towns and villages, practicing their trade in an isolated, subsistence manner. In addition to ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Before You Say “I Do”: Why nonprofits should be wary of merging

With the best of intentions, many funders and other commentators encourage nonprofits to merge, arguing that their integration will help reduce duplication of services, difficulties going to scale, and competition for scarce funding. All too often, ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2007)

Community Revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom

The flow of ideas between the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) includes approaches to housing policy, as the public sectors in both countries have turned toward the private sector to help provide affordable housing and support redevelopment ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Sharpening The Cutting Edge: Corporate Action for a Strong, Low-Carbon Economy

This report assesses how companies have fared in addressing the "cutting-edge issues" identified in a previous report published in 2004, A Climate of Innovation . The experiences of corporate partners illustrate important progress and ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Vietnam: Wheels of Change

In Vietnam, a country with one of the highest percentages of wheelchair riders in the world, a partnership between an American designer and a Vietnamese wheelchair factory is making a difference. FRONTLINE/World correspondent Majorie McAfee travels to see ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2009)

Becoming Strategic: The Evolution of the Flinn Foundation (Lessons from the Field)

In 2002, Arizona’s Flinn Foundation began implementing a strategy that focused on boosting its state’s bioscience economy and relied heavily on building collaborative partnerships. Since that time, Arizona has had dramatic increases in jobs, research ...

(case/model, text, 2009)