Why do so many nonprofits have financial difficulties? It is not only because of the scarcity of funds, but also because of some constant challenges they face. A social initiative …
The following checklist will help you to adapt the criteria to your own organization’s situation. Try to consider the following points. How can a selected financial method be assessed in …
The purpose of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises is to solve a social problem, not to make a profit. But without financial means, they cannot operate either. Unlike business corporations, …
What is the stage of social innovation in your organization? Do you want to sketch an idea for a new social innovation? This week, we have taken a closer look …
What are the phases of social innovation and how can they be managed? Managing social innovation means dealing with risk and uncertainty. Instead of managing innovation itself, you have to …
There is an ongoing debate: if and to what extent innovation can be managed. A social innovation model is not a recipe for developing or creating more innovation. Instead, the …
Social innovation is based on collaboration. But how can this work in practice? In this video, we present an example from the city of Basel where a new approach to …
What is the state of research on social innovation today? Professor Jürgen Howaldt from the TU Dortmund in Dortmund (Germany) comments on the current state of social innovation research and …
Social innovations are social both in their ends and in their means. This definition entails the key dimensions of social innovations: responding to social needs, organized through collaboration, and creating …
When people think of innovation, they usually think of technological innovation. Even more specifically, they think about product or service invention. But not every innovation has to be completely new …
As Dennis Young argued, nonprofits can be seen as one kind of social enterprise and there are many other forms. So chances are high, that your organization might benefit from …
How can you implement ideas of the social enterprise in a nonprofit? This video presents three different strategies for how nonprofits can use the social enterprise concept for their own …
The term social enterprise (SE) has quickly picked up momentum as these organizations have taken on a critical role to address current pressing societal challenges. Nevertheless, there are varying perspectives …
Usually, the financial sources of nonprofits are separated into three groups: state subsidies, private donations, and own revenues (Bowman, 2011). The three groups differ especially in terms of logic of …