In collaboration with Sankt Gallen University in Switzerland this project looks at how effective strategies of social investment are implemented (a) for the promotion of local entrepreneurship and (b) for the benefit of the poor.

Brief description: The increased presence of hybrid organizations reflects changes in the institutional infrastructure of modern societies and the blurring of the boundaries between the roles of government, business and civil society. Examples of hybrid forms include: corporations that try to reconcile profit optimization with social responsibility; nonprofit organizations that generate commercial revenue to subsidize a public purpose; a government agency no longer relying on tax revenue or an organization created by entrepreneurs that seek to maximize social benefit rather than pecuniary returns. In such hybrids, governance problems arise from the presence of multiple rationales and their underlying value dispositions. The purpose of this project is to explore the relationship between organizational hybridity and governance in a selected number of fields through in-depth case studies.

Brief description: One core challenge for foundation philanthropy is to answer the question: which approaches yield maximum impact given the limited financial resources available to foundations? In other words, how can foundations use philanthropic leverage to add value to outcomes substantially above the relative size of their financial contribution?

 

This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Nonprofit Management and Leadership copyright 2009 (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.).

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Adapting Question Mapping as a Methodology to Help Make Sense of a Community's Collective Wisdom and Shared Futures

by

Erna Gelles and Richard F. Ludeman

 

 

This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Nonprofit Management and Leadership copyright 2009 (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.).

Please do not cite without permission.

 

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Building Stronger Weak Ties among a Diverse Pool of Emergent Nonprofit Leaders of Color