Pablo Eisenberg, who Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, has described as "one of the most influential and outspoken voices in philanthropy," sent an email response to my posting of Bill Schambra’s email on Friday. If you’ve missed the Egger vs. Eisenberg debate, you can catch up via my review of the debate. […]
Category Archives: Social Entrepreneurship
Egger vs. Eisenberg
August 17, 2007 – 11:16 am
Why is the Egger vs. Eisenberg debating drawing so much interest? Bill Schambra emailed me his thoughts, which I share with you below. As you read it, recall discussions we’ve had here about “nonprofit vs. for-profit”, “new philanthropy”, “renaming the nonprofit sector”, and “venture philanthropy” and you can see how the Egger vs. Eisenberg debate […]
Nonprofit Name Debate
August 7, 2007 – 8:45 am
After I wrote about Claire Gaudiani’s Chronicle of Philanthropy article calling for the renaming of the nonprofit section (with Social-Profit Organization as the new term), the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give & Take blog featured the discussion: Prompted by an opinion article in The Chronicle, readers of Tactical Philanthropy are debating whether the term “nonprofit” needs […]
Social Enterprises
August 3, 2007 – 9:05 am
Eli Stefanski, executive director of the Maine Women’s Fund, responds to my post about getting rid of the term nonprofit: The re-defining of the sector seems to be in the air… again… I just received an email from an old colleague at Ashoka; in it, her tagline read: "Ashoka is a citizen sector organization (CSO), […]
Innovatorz
July 29, 2007 – 9:20 am
You may have noticed the big step up of quality in the last Podcast. We have Innovatorz to thank for that. Innovatorz is a micro television and radio network that follows the ongoing stories of social innovators. These are among the most exciting and inspiring stories in the world. We strive to make online storytelling […]
Blended Value Marketing
July 16, 2007 – 7:32 am
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Nonprofits vs. For Profits
June 28, 2007 – 4:00 am
I’m on vacation this week. This post originally appeared on March 3, 2007. I wrote this well before the Some Nonprofits Just Suck debate exploded. The fact that this post has been so widely read and a debate on the subject recently raged for two weeks shows that as a community, we have some important […]
