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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 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 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 Gregory Dees The move by non-profit organizations to raise additional funds by allowing corporate partners the commercial use of their name or reputation would likely result in the corruption of the social mission of the nonprofit organization. Several options …

By Gregory J Dees and Jaan Elias A comparison of nonprofit and for-profit business organizations at a time when business is considered the model of efficiency and innovation provides significant insights into the norms that characterize these institutions, their functions …