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Five Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation

LDRLB

millions US nonprofits don’t support themselves through “competing” or creating better products, services, or business models. Historically, the typical nonprofit business model has been based on dependence. Social business is gaining steam. Any nonprofit can reinvent itself and its business model.

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Stop Me Before I “Innovate” Again!

Harvard Business Review

Robert MacDonald , the most creative and opinionated insurance-industry executives I’ve ever met (yes, I know, he doesn’t have tons of competition), likes to say that the art of doing something new is a matter of “reminiscing about the future.” It’s also a spirit, oddly enough, best captured in a famous tribute to the Grateful Dead rock band.