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Capacity Building in a Down Market

Posted March 5, 2008 4:30 PM by Dylan Miyake

Rosetta Thurman has a great blog post over at the Stanford Social Innovation Review where she's talking about the real risk to non-profits during an economic downturn. The issue, as she correctly points out, is that when funding dries up, staff gets cut back, and organizations that are making a real difference are at risk.

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Why Consider the Balanced Scorecard?

Posted March 4, 2008 3:22 PM by Ted Jackson

The Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that's becoming very popular in the non-profit and government markets. Why? Because the Balanced Scorecard allows mission-driven organizaions to clearly state their strategy and gives them a measurement framework that shows if they are acheiving their strategy.

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Cross-Sector Collaboration

Posted March 2, 2008 3:10 PM by Dylan Miyake

At Ascendant, we're very interested in how organizations in the not-for-profit space can work together to acheive mission results. And we're especially interested in how we can facilitate connections that would not ordinarily be made.

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