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	<description>Supporting &#38; Sustaining Social Enterprise</description>
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		<title>More Questions than Answers Yet on Benefit Corporation Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We work with a mix of social enterprises from our base in Maryland, which just happens to be the first state in the union to have passed legislation creating Benefit Corporation status, and we’ve got a lot of practical questions, &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/more-questions-than-answers-yet-on-benefit-corporation-law/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=131&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Mentor&#8217;s Nonprofit Sector Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 12:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been two weeks since the Social Enterprise Summit/World Forum conference in San Francisco. I am still following up on contacts, good and crazy ideas, and only now looking through scores of handwritten notes for highlights. Where I imagine &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/not-your-mentors-nonprofit-sector-conference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=80&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Joke: Foundations That Abuse Their Superpower, Convening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Rosenman’s new report Caring to Change reminded me of my own scattered but at times impassioned critique of foundation practice. No matter how honorable the program officers, the inherent power difference between funders and nonprofits must be openly acknowledged &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/test-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=55&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations: Innovation, Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among interviewees and participant advisors to the project that resulted in the report Caring to Change, many see foundations as embodying double standards for innovation and risk. With all the trendy and appealing chatter about “innovation” and game-changing, scalable solutions &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/foundations-innovation-really/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=64&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caring Enough to Change Philanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a new report on bettering philanthropy, Caring to Change: Foundations for the Common Good, the result of a project developed by Mark Rosenman in collaboration with the Aspen Institute&#8217;s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. A &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/caring-enough-to-change-philanthropy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=77&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to New Executive Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Executive Director Following a Founder, If this were easy, it would be easy. The job of serving as the first Executive Director after a founder&#8211;in any situation, in any organization, in any economy&#8211;is probably the hardest job in the &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/open-letter-to-new-executive-directors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=61&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Enterprise is Foxy</title>
		<link>http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/social-enterprise-is-foxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about &#8220;social enterprise&#8221; often tends to emphasize business innovation or the franchise business-flavored nonprofit model (overly simplified: a relatively straightforward program scaled fast and all over, with big startup investment from government or tech money) over any other nonprofit &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/social-enterprise-is-foxy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=70&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humble and Flexible Philanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Sean Stannard-Stockton, @tactphil, invited folks to offer a word to describe good philanthropy, along with a sentence defining it and a paragraph to further explain. He received lots of thoughtful and passionate entries, with which he reated a &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/humble-and-flexible-philanthropy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=68&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Employee All That Great?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Useful framework, not fluffy. Jim Collins explains how you&#8217;ll know when you&#8217;ve got a solid employee. Discovered via Behance &#8211; 99% solution. He suggests six attributes: 1. Shares core values 2. Understands that she doesn&#8217;t have a job, she has &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/is-your-employee-all-that-great/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=85&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Zooming Who?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International library, civil society, philanthropy pro Carol Erickson writes a thoughtful piece on the long-standing, under-acknowledged problem in philanthropy she calls the &#8220;donor deception dance.&#8221; This same problem happens here, among U.S. funders and U.S. grantees. Just last night, I &#8230; <a href="http://changemattersinfo.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/whos-zooming-who/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=changemattersinfo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15176146&amp;post=83&amp;subd=changemattersinfo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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