PREMIUM CONTENT | This examination of some of the practical considerations and tradeoffs of fiscal sponsorship introduces a new partnership between NPQ and NVSQ to produce articles that are a research-to-practice bridge (and vice versa).
PREMIUM CONTENT | What differentiates nonprofit from for-profit entrepreneurship? This article not only explores the differences in risk and uncertainly in nonprofit entrepreneurship, but it also explains why nonprofit entrepreneurs and their funders are unwise to trap themselves falsely in a for-profit framework.
It is difficult to identify exactly when an organization has come into existence. A general rule is that a nonprofit is born the moment it has been officially registered by the IRS, but this article argues that “the emergence of a new nonprofit organization is better understood as a process rather than a discrete event or state. Specifically, reducing nonprofit birth to the act of registration is to simplify and ignore critical aspects of the organizing process.”
PREMIUM CONTENT | The U.S. social sector insists on raising up the “bold individual” as the hero of entrepreneurial endeavor—yet, as the authors write, “the uncertainty of our world requires the many to envision solutions.” In the long run, the entrepreneurship of a collective rather than a single individual may have a better chance of producing sustainable and relevant impact.
PREMIUM CONTENT | Nonprofit boards are famously prone to acting in ways that suggest unseen forces. This intriguing, useful, and classic article takes on the pesky but powerful poltergeists in your boardroom.
There is a lot of hype around hybrid organizations and that can obfuscate how simply they can be understood and worked with and soberly evaluated for use. This article will help practitioners look critically at the underlying ideas.
Several insights into the world of nonprofit governance have emerged in recent years, yet much remains to be explored. This article discusses five areas for future inquiry.
We are apt to praise the entrepreneurial spirit, but entrepreneurship is not automatically tied to success—a fact that has not stopped proponents from prescribing it as a cure-all for our sector’s woes, and which may have blinded some to the very real challenges that await those eager to put the concept into practice. Until the value of social entrepreneurship has been empirically assessed and established, it would be wise to proceed with care.
