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New Profit Chief Executive Partner Diana McLain Smith Releases Groundbreaking Book on Relationships Among Leaders
10/12/2011
Diana McLain Smith, chief executive partner at New Profit Inc., has just released The Elephant in the Room, a groundbreaking book that reveals how relationships shape the fate of leaders and their organizations.
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TAGS: Education, New Profit
New Profit Inc. Announces Eliza Greenberg will Join as Partner
New Profit Inc. | NewProfit.com
01/06/2011
Read New Profit's press release about our newest hire.
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Grant Seeker Did Not Get Special Treatment
Vanessa Kirsch | The Chronicle of Philanthropy
09/19/2010
Vanessa Kirsch, New Profit's President and Founder, describes her hope that the inaugural class of Social Innovation Fund intermediary organizations and their subsequent subgrantees will help to show how the Social Innovation Fund can be a catalyst for changing the lives of millions of children and families across the country.
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TAGS: Current Investments, New Profit, Social Innovation
New Profit Selected as Social Innovation Fund Intermediary
New Profit Inc. | NewProfit.com
07/22/2010
Read New Profit's official press release about receiving a Social Innovation Fund intermediary grant.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Innovation
Video: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Richard White | The Chronicle of Philanthropy
06/11/2010
Dan Heath, co-author of the bestselling business book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, and Brett Jenks, the chief executive of Rare, an environmental charity in Arlington, Va., offer some ideas on how can nonprofits group can alter their operations, strategy, or mission.
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TAGS: Current Investments, Gathering of Leaders, New Profit
Governor announces social innovation compact
Jonathan Palumbo | Mass.gov
04/16/2010
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a Social Innovation Compact with representatives of the social innovation community, committing to expand the existing reach of innovative organizations into the state's communities.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Innovation
Investing in Social Entrepreneurs
MICHAEL S. FISCHER | Wealth Manager
04/28/2009
In this Wealth Manager article, New Profit is featured for its belief that social entrepreneurship and invention are the solutions to our country’s most entrenched social problems.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation
How Many Billionaires Does It Take to Fix a School System?
Paul Tough | New York Times Magazine
03/09/2008
Paul Tough interviews Vanessa Kirsch, President and Founder of New Profit, and others about educational philanthropy and their approaches to giving money away.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Entrepreneurship
Doing Due Diligence On Your Donations
Rachel Emma Silverman | Sally Beatty | The Wall Street Journal
12/20/2007
As charitable giving by Americans nears $300 billion annually, this article explores why donors are increasingly seeking after organizations like New Profit to increase the impact their dollars are having.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy
Now the Good News...
Keith Hammonds | Fast Company
12/01/2007
This article recognizes New Profit among a set of diverse experiments that are attempting to bring new capital and capital-market dynamics to the realm of social good.
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TAGS: Capital, New Profit
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? (Part III)
Bill George | Business Week
10/22/2007
In this article, Vanessa Kirsch, President and Founder of New Profit, is recognized as an emerging leader with a different set of experiences, expectations, and rules.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Entrepreneurship
The Business of Philanthropy
Jack Andrew | The Financial Times
07/05/2007
This piece explores how New Profit has become part of a growing group of intermediaries helping wealthy people find purpose and make a difference through their philanthropy.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy
Disruptive Innovation for Social Change
Clayton M.Christensen | Heiner Baumann, et al. | Harvard Business Review
12/01/2006
In this article Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School and Heiner Baumann, formerly of New Profit, make the case for using the principles of disruptive innovation to identify and support organizations that have the best chance of creating new solutions to social challenges.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Innovation
Schooling Corporate Giants on Recruiting
Patricia Sellers | Fortune
11/27/2006
This piece explores how Teach For America, a New Profit past investment, built a mighty recruiting machine that corporations angle to partner with to recruit top talent who are committed to community service.
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TAGS: New Profit, Past Investments
The New Engines of Reform
David Gergen | U.S. News & World Report
02/20/2006
In this article David Gergen highlights Vanessa Kirsch, President and Founder of New Profit, and other social entrepreneurs who are reforming the way social change happens in America.
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TAGS: New Profit, Social Entrepreneurship
Three Keys to a Successful Social Enterprise
Bill Shore | Compass Magazine
10/01/2005
This article explores how new philanthropic models like New Profit, are helping nonprofits move toward innovation by selecting investments on the basis of performance measures.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy
The Growth Capital Market in the U.S.
Heiner Baumann | Alliance Magazine
03/01/2005
In this article, Heiner Baumann, formerly of New Profit, explores why the developing growth capital market for social entrepreneurs does not adequately meet their needs.
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TAGS: Capital, New Profit
Supporters Say Venture Philanthropy Still Thrives, Even if Reach is Limited
Ben Gose | The Chronicle of Philanthropy
10/14/2004
In this article Ben Gose argues that venture-philanthropy is taking a "toe-hold" in the grant-making community, in part because of organizations like New Profit.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy
A Revolution Was Ventured, But What Did It Gain?
Ben Gose | The Chronicle of Philanthropy
08/21/2003
The article charts the late 1990s development of "venture philanthropy" through to the development of organizations like New Profit.
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TAGS: New Profit, Philanthropy
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