Organization
What is nonprofit about nonprofits?
Nonprofits can’t be without profits [positive net income] or they go out of business. So, what does ‘nonprofit’ mean? I have struggled to answer this question on many occasions. Well, I’ve finally come up with an explanation that works for me. If I invest in a for-profit business, I do it in hopes of making [...]
Do you know the answers?
You are a nonprofit entrepreneur, a social entrepreneur or a volunteer leader. Can you answer these questions* about your organization, your enterprise, your board, your committee, your program or your project? • What are you building? • Why does this [organization, enterprise, board, committee, program or project] exist? • What results will you measure? • [...]
Nonprofit is more challenging to set up
The last post I said, …I like to ask budding nonprofit and social entrepreneurs to convince me they can’t fulfill their vision and mission in an LLC or an L3C. Whoa is that a heresy? I ask because I think a nonprofit corporation is much harder to build than a for-profit. This caused Kathy Alice [...]
Calm before the storm (of activity)
Nonprofit entrepreneurs need to take advantage of the period of calm before they start an organization. They can use it to set up a solid framework that they can build on for success before they spend a lot of money and time developing an organization. But before that, I like to ask budding nonprofit and [...]
One Page Promise
I now have a new framework for my course Nonprofit Organization and Operation: A Hands-on; How-to Approach. I had the subjects I wanted to cover in the course but I wasn’t happy with the original framework. The framework is the One Page Business Plan for Nonprofits. This book, software and web service was created by [...]
Support for new ideas
photo credit: smemon87 Discovery is wonderful. I have recently discovered how many people have some of the same ideas as I have. And I have a few strongly held ideas. Nonprofits are businesses. It is a positive sum game for nonprofit entrepreneurs, nonprofits volunteers and nonprofit staff to collaborate with others in nonprofits. Nonprofits are [...]
Nonprofit Organization and Operation: A Hands-on, How-to Approach
I will lead two of these workshops. Each of these workshops meets once a week for four weeks. Inver Hills Community College Inver Grove Heights, MN beginning September 28, 2010 Minneapolis Community and Technical College Minneapolis, MN beginning September 29, 2010 Nonprofit Organization and Operation: A Hands-on, How-to Approach is designed for nonprofit entrepreneurs and [...]
