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By J. Gregory Dees Greg Dees offers practical advice for nonprofit leaders about how to identify innovative opportunities, manage the tensions inherent to the innovation process, and build an innovative, adaptive organization. Chapter 7 in Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for …

By J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson and Peter Economy A hands-on resource that shows nonprofits how to adopt entrepreneurial behaviors and techniques The rising spirit of social entrepreneurship has created all kinds of new opportunities for nonprofit organizations. But at …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson In December 2000, New Schools Venture Fund was debating the role it should play in helping one of its for-profit investees, LearnNow, attract new capital. A $20 million venture philanthropy fund, New …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Supplements the (A) case. Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business Publishing, Prod # SI7B-PDF-ENG, 2001 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam;jsessionid=795080605C6D2E8437D77DEF2B4151CE?R=SI7B-PDF-ENG&conversationId=772906

By Gregory J Dees and Karen Jacobson Provides a framework for thinking systematically about innovations in philanthropy. To be successful and sustainable, innovative approaches to philanthropy need to create value for donors and recipients, as well as for society. Three …

By Gregory J Dees and Beth Battle Anderson It’s August 2000, and Maitri AIDS Hospice in San Francisco is reevaluating its approach to fundraising. In recent years, Maitri has been relying increasingly on government, corporate, and foundation grants. Yet Don …

By Gregory J. Dees In May, 2000 Hudi Podolsky assumed the position of executive director of CES and needed to act quickly. CES was an early educational reform organization dedicated to widespread implementation of certain fundamental educational principles in primary …

By Gregory J. Dees and Everett Harper In February 1999, the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust (ABFT) was preparing to expand its operations outside Cape Town, South Africa. However, their plans were challenged by a strike at the Community Bakery, a …

By J. Gregory Dees, Shirley Brice Heath and Laura Smyth Artists for Humanity (AFH) is a nonprofit that hires 30 to 40 teenagers each year for after-school work and training in the arts and entrepreneurship. The young artists, working in …

By James L. Heskett, J. Gregory Dees and Jaan Elias Having founded what they called a “venture philanthropy” operated like a hybrid between a venture capital fund and a philanthropy, New Profit’s organizers are confronted with two issues: 1) the role …