Publisher's Synopsis
"Bringing together the best experts in the business, Generating andSustaining Nonprofit Earned Income offers up critical advice andinsights to help even the most experienced social entrepreneursimprove upon enterprise performance; A critical addition to anypractitioner resource library."
-Jed Emerson, lecturer in business, Stanford BusinessSchool and senior fellow, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,David and Lucile Packard Foundation
"We live in a world that begs for the creation of new models ofeconomic justice and opportunities. This book provides valuableinformation to support the efforts of nonprofit entrepreneurs tosucceed in creating and operating ventures that are bothsustainable and replicable while meeting economic and societalneeds. Go for it!"
-Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders, Ben& Jerry's
"Nonprofit ventures have few of the traditional supports thatare available to other types of organizations. Straddling thefor-profit and nonprofit cultures, they inhabit a world notofficially recognized, where roadmaps do not exist. Life on thethin strip between one land and another is always a precariousexistence, full of trials and tribulations, but also charged withopportunity. This book provides the best thinking to helpnonprofits capitalize on that opportunity."
-Bill Shore, chairman, Community Wealth Ventures
In collaboration with the Yale School of Management-The GoldmanSachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, thiscomprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating areliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofitorganizations' dependence on traditional sources of funding. Editedby renowned scholar and consultant Sharon Oster and CynthiaMassarsky and Samantha Beinhacker, deputy directors of ThePartnership on Nonprofit Ventures, Generating and SustainingNonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful EnterpriseStrategies will teach readers sound business planningstrategies that can significantly benefit their organization'sinternal capacity and financial health.
