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ArchivesWelcome to the Third Thursdays Archive. We've included information about our past programs and encourage you to include comments about related resources that others may find useful. If you have any questions about our past programs, please email us at ! If you'd like to follow the comments for a specific program, try subscribing to the RSS feeds. Simply copy the "RSS feed for comments on this post" link into your favorite blogging software. July 15, 2004Starting up: Launching Non-profit Initiatives
We first considered a topic on “Start-up Nonprofits” because most of the established Asian American non-profit organizations started when the civil rights movement and Third World strikes generated a strong need to create organizations that served the community. This need overrided most founders’ concerns that they weren’t equipped to run the organization, couldn’t find funding, or how it might affect their futures. We wanted to tell story of how starting up a non-profit today differed, as we see nonprofits merging, applying for the same funding, and working hard to find and retain good staff. While researching start-up non-profits, we found some start-ups but not nearly as many as expected. Instead, we learned that there were many different types of non-profit initiatives, including projects started by other non-profits or foundations, all-volunteer organizations, collaborative projects, and 501c3 organizations. This month, we feature non-profit initiatives and how they grew from an idea to their current form.
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Here’s an article about the People’s Grocery from a March 2005 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/03/09/gree.DTL
Comment by gavin — March 9, 2005 @ 10:19 am
Here’s the program notes for this month’s event: Program.
Comment by will — June 8, 2005 @ 4:02 pm