Don’t Get Bigger Unless You Get Better: Lessons From Micro-credit
Microfinance has become the poster child for troubling growth and questionable nonprofit/for-profit cross-overs. Is it the rapid growth or too much emphasis on investor returns or not enough...
View ArticleLearn From Micro-credit Mistakes: Grow Wisely
With the Social Impact Exchange Conference coming soon, I want to keep the focus on scaling well rather than just getting bigger. As I wrote before, the micro-credit industry provides examples of the...
View ArticleA Hand Up Is Better Than A Hand-out
In a recent interview with Women In Development, Dina Powell, president, Goldman Sachs Foundation, discussed the progress and lessons learned from Goldman’s, 10,000 Women Program, a $100 million...
View ArticleScaling Nonprofits: Lessons Learned By A Winner
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a 7-part series on Developing A Growth Business Plan. The series is based on presentations made at the Social Impact Exchange Symposium on Scaling Impact held June 14...
View ArticleMore than One Road Can Take You Where You Want to Go
Vacations are for relaxing and recharging, but what happens when things don’t go as planned? As with business, sometimes you plan for X and Y happens. So it was with my vacation.read more
View ArticleNonprofit Giving Has Changed. Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up?
$23 billion. That’s the decline in giving from 2007 -- the peak giving year -- to 2010.read more
View ArticleEmployee Engagement Is Key to a Winning Workplace
What’s the secret to increasing revenues and increasing your workforce during hard times? Apparently, it’s having a great relationship with your employees.read more
View ArticleHow Sweet It Is! Learning to Grow Your Business
Yes, I’m a nag but I’m also right. Continuing education for entrepreneurs is a good investment of public funds and a must-do for entrepreneurs. If you don’t believe me, meet Amy Deguilio, founder of...
View ArticleHow to Succeed in Business: 5 Lessons from Successful Women
When you start digging, you find out all sorts of interesting things, both good and bad. I’ve been researching the success factors that unite highly successful women entrepreneurs. Along the way, I’ve...
View ArticleWomen, Take a Lesson from Girls Scouts: Start Your Social Media Engines
How do you create more businesses owned by women, especially businesses with revenues in excess of $1 million dollars?read more
View ArticleGen Next on the Nonprofit Board
by Michael DavidsonIn these increasingly difficult times, the need for active and engaged board members is greater than ever. The generation under 40 is a largely untapped resource, nationally...
View ArticleWomen Entrepreneur Faciliatates Peace Here and in the Middle East
by Karin KampIn 2012 when insurgents were unleashing a string of attacks across Iraq, who would have dared take on the task of bringing warring religious factions together in face-to-face talks?read more
View ArticleHow to Make Your Case When Speaking
by Wendy ScharfmanMy father was a tyrannical professor of medicine who seemed to relish humiliating his students – especially while making rounds in the hospital. The residents would hide behind each...
View ArticleHow to Improve Nonprofit Board Meetings
by Michael DavidsonThe Problem For many organizations, board meetings are a problem rather than a solution.read more
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