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Current trends for nonprofits

It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Watch Georg von Schnurbein give it a try.

It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Nevertheless, we give it a try.

This video presents five trends that nonprofits face today. Professionalization, the pressure for legitimacy, hybrid structures, internationalization, and specialization are current or future trends that influence the development of the nonprofit sector.

At the end of the video, Georg von Schnurbein encourages you to think about what trends are most important for your organization, or how your social initiative is an answer to these trends. Please share your thoughts about it in the next step “Evaluating actual trends”.

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