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Author Archives: Paul Penley
Nonprofit performance evaluation: financial management (part 2 of 6)
High-performing non-profits must understand how to manage their money. Charities cannot promise great things to supporters and run out of resources along the way. A delicate balance of maintaining healthy reserves, minimizing debt and sticking to a budget is required. … Continue reading
Nonprofit performance evaluation: Leadership (part 1 of 6)
Where do you start when evaluating the health of a non-profit organization? Incessant headlines about dishonest educational programs, irresponsible board governance, misleading cancer charities and corrupt first responder foundations remind us that a little assessment can go a long way. … Continue reading
Social-profit enterprises: stop debating and get them going
The wall between non-profit and for-profit organizations is crumbling in the US legal structure with the recent creations of B-Corps, L3Cs, and now FlexC’s. In actual practice, the social sector moved beyond the value of such distinctions long ago. I … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged Business, Charity law, Peer learning, Praxis, Social entrepreneurship
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Giving poorly can be worse than not giving at all
What if your donation to fight human trafficking paid the salary of a human trafficker? What if your donation to support widowed law enforcement families went to a felon’s bank account? What if your child sponsorship monthly donation and letters … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged Accountability, Best practice, Charity analysis, Due diligence, Impact measurement
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Modern proverbs for giving – from the Philanthropy Roundtable Annual Meeting
‘Even if grants don’t fully succeed, we only fail if we don’t learn.’ This adage from Jeff Raikes (Director of the Gates Foundation) is one of many exchanged at the 2011 Philanthropy Roundtable Annual Meeting. Since I had an opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged education, overheads, Philanthropy Roundtable, Proverbs, Social entrepreneurship, Strategic giving
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