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Fundraising Bright Spots: Strategies and Inspiration from Social Change Organizations Raising Money from Individual Donors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
"Let's find an outside expert who can help." It's a natural impulse in the search for answers to the chronic fundraising challenges facing so many nonprofit organizations. But what if the real answers were already all around us?
Jeanne Bell, Kim Klein
core  

Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

University Spin-off Fundraising: The Impact of Entrepreneurial Capabilities and Social Networks Of Founding Teams during Start-ups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
University spin-offs have increasingly received attention from academia, governments, and policymakers in studying the financing policies, venture capital investment decision making, the roles of venture capitalist in the development of new ...
Huynh, Thanh, Patton, Dean
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Ngos' Contributions to Innovation: Innovation Enablers or Lead Innovators?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) engage with innovation processes. Drawing on a comparative case study of two NGOs working in water sustainability, the paper analyses NGO involvement across seven stages of the innovation process.
Maria Cristina Pietronudo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trustee Fundraising Dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summary of a 2009 BC Library Conference session dedicated to exploring what BC public libraries are doing to fundraise, and how library trustees are ...
Isakov, Andre
core  

When Rare Is Not Small: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Initiatives and Therapy

open access: yesExploration, EarlyView.
In the precision‐medicine era, rare diseases must not be sidelined in translational infrastructure. The Mr. Cai Lei—led “Ice‐Breaking Team” turns an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient community into a sustainable ecosystem, realigning philanthropy, data, and research and development to reshape rare‐disease pipelines and guide precision therapies ...
Yang Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Charitable Giving Report, derived from The Blackbaud Index, includes overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing $12.5 billion in total fundraising from 2013.
Steve MacLaughlin
core   +1 more source

Evaluating Innovation Output of Companies Backed by Corporate, Independent and Syndicated Venture Capital

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Independent Venture Capital (IVC) and Venture Capital Syndicate (VCS) promote innovation among startups. Drawing on a dataset of 4406 venture‐backed deals in North America, spanning 1998–2019, it explores how the configurations of investors and their contextual factors influence ...
Fatima Shuwaikh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance measurement models and their influence on net fundraising of investment funds

open access: yesRevista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2018
This article aims to analyze the relation between third- and fourth-order conditions and risk factors and their adequacy to return, performance, and net fundraising.
Anderson Rocha de J. Fernandes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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