Knowledge Items
Handbook of Marketing and Society
Handbook of Marketing and Society presents the first comprehensive, in-depth examination of scholarly research on how marketing effects the welfare of society. Drawing on the talents of an outstanding team of contributors, the editors have assembled key reviews, analyses, and perspectives on a broad range of research topics including deceptive advertising, warning labels, trademark infringement, […]
Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
By J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson and Peter Economy A hands-on resource that shows nonprofits how to adopt entrepreneurial behaviors and techniques The rising spirit of social entrepreneurship has created all kinds of new opportunities for nonprofit organizations. But at the same time, many are discovering more than their share of challenges as well. This […]
Mastering the Art of Innovation
By J. Gregory Dees Greg Dees offers practical advice for nonprofit leaders about how to identify innovative opportunities, manage the tensions inherent to the innovation process, and build an innovative, adaptive organization. Chapter 7 in Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs, edited by J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson and Peter Economy John Wiley & […]
New Schools Venture Fund (B)
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Supplements the (A) case. Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business Publishing, Prod # SI7B-PDF-ENG, 2001 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam;jsessionid=795080605C6D2E8437D77DEF2B4151CE?R=SI7B-PDF-ENG&conversationId=772906
New Schools Venture Fund (A)
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson In December 2000, New Schools Venture Fund was debating the role it should play in helping one of its for-profit investees, LearnNow, attract new capital. A $20 million venture philanthropy fund, New Schools invested in for-profit and nonprofit education ventures that targeted a vulnerability in the K-12 […]
Triangle Community Foundation
In February 2000, Triangle Community Foundation (TCF) director of Philanthropic Services Tony Pipa presented the foundation’s new mission statement and its internal ramifications to the staff. It had been over two years since TCF’s board had mandated that donors, not nonprofit organizations, were the foundation’s primary customers. Executive Director Shannon St. John, Pipa, and other […]
Coalition of Essential Schools
By Gregory J. Dees In May, 2000 Hudi Podolsky assumed the position of executive director of CES and needed to act quickly. CES was an early educational reform organization dedicated to widespread implementation of certain fundamental educational principles in primary and secondary schools in the United States. The main problem was that traditional sources of […]
Artists for Humanity
By J. Gregory Dees, Shirley Brice Heath and Laura Smyth Artists for Humanity (AFH) is a nonprofit that hires 30 to 40 teenagers each year for after-school work and training in the arts and entrepreneurship. The young artists, working in six different studios, make and sell the art they produce. AFH was started in 1990 […]
New Profit, Inc
By James L. Heskett, J. Gregory Dees and Jaan Elias Having founded what they called a “venture philanthropy” operated like a hybrid between a venture capital fund and a philanthropy, New Profit’s organizers are confronted with two issues: 1) the role that “investors” would be asked to play in the organization, and 2) the way in […]
The Amy Biehl Foundation Trust
In February 1999, the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust (ABFT) was preparing to expand its operations outside Cape Town, South Africa. However, their plans were challenged by a strike at the Community Bakery, a mission-driven revenue generating enterprise connected to ABFT, and financial irregularities at one of their newest programs, the Parent Teacher Pupil Program. Both […]