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News
from the Field
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000 and earlier
March 2004: Intro
to Entrepreneurship (© The
Boston Globe)
March 2004: Former
Pittsburgher helps nonprofits stand on their own two feet
(©
Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
February 2004: Nonprofits
Take Entrepreneurial Path (©
Baltimore Sun)
February 2004: Baltimore
Foundations Help Non-Profits Develop Earned Income Ventures
February 2004: Franchise
Chains, Nonprofits Team Up (©
National Public Radio)
January 2004: Greyston
Bakery: Let 'Em Eat Cake (©
CBS News)
December 2003: Nonprofit
group adds Field Inst., MCG Jazz (©
Pittsburgh Business
Times)
November 2003: Expanding
the Charity Franchise: Nonprofit groups are running businesses
to achieve social goals - and make money (©
The Chronicle of
Philanthropy, requires registration)
November 2003: Nonprofit
Contest Asks Arts Orgs to Think Big
September 2003: Nonprofits
eye new revenue ideas as gifts, grants dwindle (©
Boston Business Journal)
July 2003: New
Report Finds Diversifying Revenue Works for Nonprofits
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the report
June 2003: Online
Social Enterprise Database Grows with National Partnership
June 2003: Nonprofits
Forced to Think of Creative Ways to Make Money (©Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette)
June 2003: Alcoa
Foundation Announces International Social Venture/Enterprise
Initiative
May 2003: Winners
Selected in the First National Business Plan Competition for
Nonprofit Organizations
May 2003: Profits
for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
April 2003: Social
Enterprise Takes Root (©Philanthropy
Journal)
March 2003: NYU
Stern School of Business Launches Course in "Social
Entrepreneurship" Taught by Bill Shore
(NYU Stern School of Business Press Release)
February 2003: Study
Shows Start-ups Have High Rate of Success
January 2003: National
Online Database of Social Enterprises Launched
January 2003: Charities
Start Businesses, See Benefits (©Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review)
November 2002: Alcoa
Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Progress in Communities
Worldwide; Announces International Social Venture Initiative
October 2002:
Charity
Bank ready to open (©Society Guardian)
Fall 2002:
Nonprofit
Enterprise: Right for You? (©The Nonprofit Quarterly)
August 2002:
Business Ventures Go
Beyond the Bottom Line (©Chronicle of
Philanthropy)
May 2002:
New Report
Examines Nonprofits Operating Commercial Businesses (©Philanthropy News
Online)
May 2002: Leaders
for Business & Society Launch New Partnership on Nonprofit
Ventures and First-Ever Business Plan Competition
May 2002: Nonprofit
Life'sWork Rehabilitating Itself: Agency Tries New Ways to
Help Disabled and At-risk Youth Find Employment (©Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette)
April 2002: Community Wealth
Ventures, in partnership with The Fannie Mae Foundation and
the the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, begins a second
round of Paving
Pathways to Sustainability.
February 2002: Nonprofit
Groups Reach for Profits on the Side (©The
New York Times)
March 2002: A
Taste of Success: Nonprofit Group Buys Ice Cream Shop to Help
D.C. Youths (©Washington Post)
February 2002: Prichard
Committee Launches New Consulting Unit
February 2002:
Yale
School of Management Receives $4.5 Million to Launch Nonprofit
Business Plan Competition (©Philanthropy News
Digest)
February 2002: Community Wealth
Ventures is pleased to announce the launch of its first ever survey
on revenue generation in the social sector.
January 2002: Venture Philanthropy
Partners releases Venture
Philanthropy 2002: Advancing Nonprofit Performance Through
High-Engagement Grantmaking.
October 2001: Community Wealth
Ventures, The Fannie Mae Foundation, and Venture Philanthropy
Partners host a forum to
discuss the impact of the September 11th events on DC area
nonprofits. More than 250 individuals from 200 area
nonprofits attended.
June 2001: Brady Campaign and Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence Building an Alliance
with Million Mom March.
May 2001: When
Nonprofits Conduct Exempt Activities as Taxable Enterprises
(©The Urban Institute)
October 2000: Community Wealth
Ventures, with funding support from The Fannie Mae Foundation
and the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, launches a pilot
group consulting project, Paving
Pathways to Sustainability.
June 2000:
Charity for
Profit: How the New Social Entrepreneurs are Creating Good by
Creating Wealth
(©National Journal)
June 2000: When
Nonprofits Go After Profits (©Business
Week -- may require free registration)
December 1999:
Profit with Honor
(©Washington Post Magazine)
July 1999: Doing
Well by Doing Good (©LA Times)
June 1999: Charities'
Big Challenge: Surviving for the Long Haul
(©Chronicle of Philanthropy)
March 1996: Charities
Change Roles By Turning a Profit (©USA
Today)
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