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- Where are we now? The new next era nonprofit
- I spent the other afternoon sitting around a large table chatting with professionals from across the sector about leadership, and the competencies that an effective leader will need in 2025. As we were chatting about today’s realities – and the social, political, technical and economic factors affecting nonprofits – it struck me that we’ve been here […]
Read More - Wanted: Greater Nonprofit Impact
- Reinventing the Nonprofit Sector – A Corona POV Series We enjoy reading stories of significant impact achieved by change makers. Books such as Forces for Good by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant and Rippling by Beverly Schwartz inspire us to ask, “What if?” We get excited when we read the stories and wonder if their stories could be our […]
Read More - Hello revolution. I knew you’d call.
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently shared 5 trends that will change the way nonprofits work in 2013. Their list nicely illustrates Corona’s own list of macro disrupters and sector transformers. As the Chronicle reports, more and more people are engaging with their nonprofits through mobile devices and crowd-sourced funding opportunities, as well as aligning their […]
Read More - MythTrouncers Episode 3: Research is only useful for making tactical decisions.
- Myth: Research is only appropriate and useful for testing products or campaigns so that we can make good tactical decisions. If you were to make this comment in front of our company’s principals, they’d likely collide with one another in a mad dash to reach their soapbox – and rightfully so. While we do carry […]
Read More - In good company
- The January/February edition of the Harvard Business Review is dedicated to business model reinvention. Great minds think alike. Team Corona released its Synergistic Business ModelTM framework for nonprofits in fall 2010. Like the smart folks at the HBR, Corona had observed that business models, like strategy, need to be revised and even reinvented to ensure […]
Read More - Corona presents at Colorado Nonprofit Association Fall Conference
- The word “business model” is no longer taboo! It is time to redefine this concept for nonprofits. Corona Insights will be presenting a workshop at the Colorado Nonprofit Association 2010 Fall Conference and Exhibition entitled “Redefining Your Business Model.” This workshop, led by Karla Raines, will be the public debut of Corona Insights’ proprietary new […]
Read More - Hold for the revolution
- Reinventing the Nonprofit Sector – A Corona POV Series In this blog series, we presented 4 sector transformers and macro disruptors that have been shaping the nonprofit sector in recent years. Each of these examples is evolutionary in the near-term – and will be revolutionary over time. I remain convinced that now is the most dynamic […]
Read More - The new era of commonalities
- This summer, the Stanford Social Innovation Review released an article entitled “In Search of the Hybrid Ideal” by Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee, John Walker, and Cheryl Dorsey. In the article, the authors identify four challenges for nonprofits that seek to combine aspects of a classic charitable organization with features of a commercial enterprise. While limitations to legal structure and financial markets create roadblocks, […]
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