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Related Interest : Preparations Underway for 2008 Nonprofit Congress

The National Council of Nonprofit Associations is currently accepting invitations to participate in this year's second national Nonprofit Congress , to take place just as the presidential and Congressional election campaigns begin in earnest. Over 800 nonprofit leaders are expected at the Congress, which will focus on the priority issues of nonprofit organizational effectiveness, advocacy, and public awareness. NCNA is currently accepting session proposals through mid-January as well as general registration for the...
Related Interest : Nonprofits' Return on Investment Should Include Cost Savings to Society

A new report, the result of a project seeking to answer the question of how to recognize return on investment in nonprofits, calculates that the thousands of nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. area contribute at least $9.6 billion to the area's economy. Beyond Charity: Recognizing Return on Investment, How the Nonprofit Community Impacts Greater Washington (PDF) by the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington notes the specific impact that each of 100 local nonprofits is...
‘Double Bottom Line’ is double bind for many nonprofit social enterprises.

A review has turned up not one entirely self-sustaining nonprofit-based social enterprise, and a report based on the review says the idea of nonprofits running enterprises is deceptively difficult for even the savviest of organizations. This report, The Limits of Social Enterprise: A Field Study & Case Analysis (PDF) , from the Seedco Policy Center finds that a more sober mood has started to permeate the social enterprise field overall as more information about some of the early experiments has begun to...
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