A frequent question in the arena of social enterprise is what legal structure to be: for-profit, non-profit or hybrid? The question is sufficiently confusing that Criterion Ventures has been successfully touring the country for over a year hosting day-long “Structure Lab”s to give folks some tools sort out the issues. I took one and found [...]
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ForProfit v NonProfit Fundraising
Posted in Capital Thoughts, Nonprofit Practice on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
To grant or invest? (part 1)
Posted in Capital Thoughts, Nonprofit Practice on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the difference between an investment and a grant? The obvious difference is that one is to make money and the other is to make change. What happens in social impact investing where the goal is to do both? That question has been on my mind lately as I look at a couple potential social [...]
Noprofit Financial Benchmarks
Posted in Along the Way, Nonprofit Practice on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a board member I’m always interested in what best practices are. We’ve had some discussions on one board that has two issues in my mind: one, how much we should keep in reserves to balance prudent management with not seeming too flush for more funding; two, being thoughtful about balancing perceived high overhead expenses [...]
