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The Nonprofit Innovation Advantage: Purpose

IdeaScale

This is actually a key advantage that nonprofits have when it comes to innovation. Employees, donors, and recipients of a nonprofit’s services see the true and profound value of helping a nonprofit succeed in its mission, which can positively impact innovation in three ways: Motivating participants to share their ideas.

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Crowdsourcing vs. Traditional Granting: Which Method Most Benefits Social Entrepreneurs

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In the past, nonprofits and other organizations would fund social enterprises by asking for a written proposal—but combining mentorship and crowdsourcing creates new opportunities and community solutions. Open innovation can be organized into a more inclusive granting mechanism.

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How an Entrepreneur Empowered Foster Kids During the Pandemic

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Wonderkey started as a nonprofit organization focused on delivering hardware (tech) to foster and recently emancipated youth during COVID. The real launching point was when we heard from one of our co-founders that she crowdsourced a phone that had video on it for her foster son’s mother so they could facetime. What is WonderKey?

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Creating an Innovative Culture for Your Nonprofit Organization

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Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders consider innovation to be mandatory, yet of those, only 40 percent think their organization is ready for innovation. Here’s how nonprofits can build an innovation strategy that carries them from strength to strength. Finding paying customers for your nonprofit. Nuts-and-Bolts Best Practices.

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Values & Communication for Nonprofits

IdeaScale

Today we continue our discussion of the opportunities presented for innovation in the nonprofit sector, by looking at two other ways to influence innovation capabilities. Communicating effectively is essential for organizations as they seek to promote unity among all parties involved in the nonprofit.

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Webinar to Highlight Best Practices from NASA’s Internal Crowdsourcing Journey

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Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. Internal crowdsourcing corrals problems, ideas, and solutions at your place of work or in your industry in one central location. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing? Internal crowdsourcing fosters the exchange of ideas among employees. PDT, Thursday, Sept.

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13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing

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As the largest privately-funded nonprofit in the world, United Way creates solutions that build stronger communities. Here, in their own words, the United Way shares their thirteen things to know about crowdsourcing for other United Ways and nonprofits using crowdsourcing for the first time. But they don’t do it alone.