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Five Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation

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I put the word profit in quotes because New York-based Housing Works, which manages to do everything I just described, is technically a charity operation. In 2009, the company expanded to Brooklyn. Innovation business model innovation kaplan nonprofit' But it acts an awful lot like a business. And a very successful one at that.

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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

.” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. In 2009, Walmart was one of several companies that provided seed funding to start The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), jointly run by the University of Arkansas and Arizona State University.