Nonprofit
7/27/12
Changemakers and the Synergistic Business Model
Recently, Karla posted an article on CausePlanet.org introducing that readership to Corona’s Synergistic Business Model™. You can read Karla’s article, “Naming and claiming the nonprofit business model,” on CausePlanet. Denise McMahan, Founder/Publisher of CausePlanet, provided the following commentary on this article and the Synergistic Business Model™ in relation to a new book by Beverly Schwartz […]
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6/20/12
Synergistic Business Model on CausePlanet.org
Karla Raines has been on the forefront of shaping the nonprofit sector’s thinking about business models. Check out her recent article on CausePlanet.org: “Naming and claiming the nonprofit business model.” While we’ve been using and promoting Corona Insights’ Synergistic Business Model™ for quite a while, it was exciting to see it on this widely used and […]
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5/21/12
Corona launches beta of Co-Strategy
Last week, Corona launched the beta version of Co-Strategy, a digital collaboratory designed exclusively for nonprofit agency executives to think and act strategically. We celebrated this milestone with a special breakfast and invited a few dozen nonprofit agency executives to participate in our beta test of the platform. Click here to learn more about Co-Strategy. Stay […]
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3/23/12
CWEE featured on PBS
The Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE) was featured on a recent PBS NewsHour feature, “To Receive Welfare, Should Drug Tests Be Required?” CWEE’s executive director Laurie Harvey, who has been working with single mothers for 30 years, is interviewed in the clip as Colorado is one of the states considering this new measure. […]
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2/27/12
The vortex of anxiety
Anxiety in organizations is like a vortex – a whirling mass with suction capable of drawing into its current everyone that surrounds it. I’ve experienced the vortex firsthand in my strategic consulting work. I’ve learned that the vortex exists when leadership is absent or insufficient. More specifically, I’ve witnessed it swirl, suck and consume the […]
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2/21/12
Inspiring the next era nonprofit association
Inspire – to motivate, to stimulate to action, to bring about, to fill with enlivening or exalting emotion As a consultant, I strive to do more than advise, provide expertise or facilitate decision making. I want to inspire my customers to believe they can do and be more than they are today. Not only do […]
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2/1/12
Foresights Exemplified – Hello, Nonprofit Business Model
As consultants, we have the privileged opportunity to learn from each customer engagement. We also practice at our professions. After all that’s what it means to be a practitioner. Each consulting engagement provides a forum for me to hone my associative thinking skills – an opportunity to make connections across ideas and customers – and […]
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1/30/12
Colorado Symphony: Act 3, Scene 1
Lately I’ve been intrigued by the Harvard Business Review article “Strategy Tools for a Shifting Landscape” by Michael G. Jacobides (January 2010) in which he makes the case for a narrative approach to strategy analysis. Jacobides writes, “In an age when nothing is constant, strategy should be defined by narrative – plots, subplots, and characters.” […]
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1/25/12
Corona in action
What better way to learn about the quality work Corona does than through the experiences of our various customers? Check out our updated Case Studies to see Corona in action. Over the years, Corona has helped a wide array of customers through market research and strategic consulting answer the questions most important to them, and […]
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1/20/12
Next Era Nonprofits: Upcoming SVP Workshop
We’re in an era of profound and broad change for the nonprofit sector. In fact, this may be the most dynamic period the sector has experienced in two decades. Not only are the rules for success being rewritten, we’re thinking anew about what to call the sector, who is in the sector, and what defines […]
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