http://www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org/blog/2008/03/06/the-essence-of-being-nonprofit/ Nonprofits Assistance Fund shares thoughts and insights on nonprofit management and finance Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org/blog/2008/03/06/the-essence-of-being-nonprofit/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Dave Gagne Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:12:02 +0000 http://www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org/blog/?p=71#comment-10 I highly recommend the short (36 pages) "Good to Great and the Social Sectors" by business writer Jim Collins, who authored the widely read "Built to Last" and "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't.") Collins looks at the nonprofit sector compared to the business sector, and suggests how to apply the "business model" to a very different social sector, the nonprofit sector. He makes very clear how that business model must be changed and adapted to the nonprofit sector. Dave I highly recommend the short (36 pages) “Good to Great and the Social Sectors” by business writer Jim Collins, who authored the widely read “Built to Last” and “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t.”) Collins looks at the nonprofit sector compared to the business sector, and suggests how to apply the “business model” to a very different social sector, the nonprofit sector. He makes very clear how that business model must be changed and adapted to the nonprofit sector. Dave

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