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Third ThursdaysThird Thursdays is a monthly dinner series for people in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors interested in Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) community issues and service opportunities. |
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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. May 17, 2007May the Force be with You: Strategic Innovations for NonprofitsThursday, May 17, 2007 What? Should more of my charitable donation pay Unicef’s managers rather than help the starving children? Preposterous! Or is it? Sometimes innovation is not about reinventing the wheel but about using existing knowledge in one area and applying it to another when appropriate. In recent years, best finance, marketing and operational practices traditionally used by large corporations, venture capitalists, and management consultants have gradually seeped into the mainstream of nonprofit leadership. At the forefront of this shift are venture philanthropy funds, earned income organizations, nonprofit consulting firms and other innovative social enterprises that promise to deliver on their missions to not just improve our society, but to do so truly more effectively. But are these Nonprofit 2.0 firms a real solution or just another fad? How do they hope to measure the elusive notion of “Social Return on Investment”? For some answers, come join us for this month’s Third Thursdays panel discussion to get a flavor of what some current nonprofit practitioners and recent business school graduates are doing to take social innovation to the next level!
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