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Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy

February 28, 2007

The title says it all in David La Piana and Michaela Hayes’ Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy. Whether they recognize it or not, these authors write, nonprofit organizations compete with one another for clients, staff, funds and media attention despite the collaborative and often anti-competitive ethos that pervades nonprofit culture. The [...]

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Foundationspeak… A book review

June 25, 2006

If you’ve had just about all the foundation speak you can handle, point your browser to three PDFs available here. The first, When words Fail: How the public interest becomes neither public nor interesting is actually the last in the series and we think the best. We particularly enjoyed author Tony Proscio’s comparison of the [...]

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Gifts of the Muse

April 13, 2006

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the debate about the benefits of the artsGifts of the Muse argues that beyond the instrumental benefits of the arts—on individual cognitive development, on attitudes or behaviors that improve school performance, on physical health, on community economic development— people are drawn to the arts for their intrinsic benefits, the sense [...]

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