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Enterprising Efforts, Calgary Foundation, Spur Fall 2014
Enterprising efforts ‘Profit’ isn't a dirty word when it helps charities accomplish their social goals. Page 17-21.
Focusing on the “how to”: emergent philanthropy debate must evolve
As a small and relatively new private foundation, we were intrigued by Kania, Kramer & Russell’s discussion of an emergent philanthropy framework. While our initial debates focused on the ‘newness’ and the key elements highlighted in their article were...
I.M.M.A.A.M.M.M
Instead what we know is that in the best examples of social enterprise – we see organizations first looking to their assets -What can we leverage? What are we really great at? Who is in our community? – to build their businesses. They don’t use the lowest common denominator of “How much can we charge our beneficiaries for this service?”