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What If Someone Gave You $5 Million (…and then asked for it back)? – Part II
It can be hard to not feel frazzled. As I was saying, there are plenty of people who want to give your organization money. Seriously. Lots of it. There is, of course, a catch: you have to give it...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
The dodo has nothing to do with this blog series. Really. – Image by Daniel Eskridge Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of four of the largest community...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
This picture of a feisty dodo has nothing to do with this blog. – Image by Michael Kutsche Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of four of the largest...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
Dodo’s do not scale well. Luckily, intermediaries do. – Image by rhombitruncated. Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of four of the largest community...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
The Dodo hangs with Alice in Wonderland. LISC, Enterprise, CSH and NFF are not building affordable housing there. Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
Disney’s Dodo: not known for innovative social finance policies. Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of four of the largest community development...
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What do LISC, Enterprise, NFF and CSH Have in Common with the Dodo? Nothing....
All that’s left of the Dodo. Luckily, CSH, NFF, Enterprise and LISC are all still around. Dear reader, as part of a special report for Shelterforce I sat down with the heads of four of the largest...
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Let’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part I of III)
Scrappy, but lovable: the irrepressible arts. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice, juicy case study...
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Let’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part II of III)
Grange halls make badass theater spaces. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice, juicy case study about...
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Let’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part III of III)
Big Car in Indianapolis, IN is a former auto service center. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice,...
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Are You TED Talk Ready? The Importance of Conceptual Capital
It used to just take two. Those days are over. In the callow youth of the nonprofit sector, you needed two kinds of capital: (1) financial capital, because money does, after all, grease the wheels of...
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Social impact investment and the failure of imagination
Do you know what you don’t know? Domestic social impact investment is stuck. Each year a few deals trickle through, but despite the potential and promise, impact investments in the US are rare,...
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The New Dawn of the Nonprofit Merger
Mergers – never easy. It used to be that the idea of one nonprofit taking over another was simply anathema. Nonprofits didn’t, you know, do that to one another. Mergers and acquisitions were the...
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#OMG: Why the #NPO sector is #tech averse
I’d be lion if I said I wasn’t surprised. So I was talking to a friend of mine at a very large nonprofit organization – as in over $100 million in annual revenues. They serve thousands of clients...
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Three Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ideas We Should Do Immediately...
When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better. Dear reader, you know me. I like to talk. When I talk to people I get ideas. Mostly they are other people’s ideas that I simply steal. But...
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On Whiteness
@manabouttownnyc Good solid two feet of snow last week in Brooklyn, Dear Reader, and it’s gotten me thinking about whiteness. I mean, I’ve been thinking about whiteness for some time, but it’s a very...
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