It's time to invest in non-profits with impact: Michael Smith at TEDxMidAtlantic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- Michael Smith is the Director of the United States government's Social Innovation Fund, a key White House initiative and program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The SIF mobilizes private and public resources to grow community-based nonprofits with evidence of impact. Previously, Michael served as Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation, where he led social innovation strategy, including investments, programs and partnerships.
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He is suggesting that nonprofits perform like for profit corporations. However, nonprofits are restrained by social pressure to limit overhead to below 20%, to not pay employee market value, to have a volunteer board of directors. If we want nonprofits to perform like successful for profits businesses we have to remove the restrictions limiting their performance.
Agreed. His argument is not nuanced enough and simply blames non profits without looking at the context or environment.
A very enlightened perspective on the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. I am in total agreement that these nonprofits should be accountable to the community... having a truly impact . What is on paper is not the reality that we need, especially from larger nonprofits that have the resources to manipulate the policymakers and large donors. What's needed is a longitudinal study on examining those nonprofits which are government sponsored and possibly redistributing key resources to smaller organizations that are making a profound difference in our communities through their labor of love, often without pay or little pay, if at all.
This is one reason I’m starting my own 501(c)3 to launch a street outreach in West Virginia like I saw while I was homeless in Oakland. I’m planning on looking into your fund, I could really use the help. But yea, I found out quick no existing nonprofits want to help launch an idea that has been proven to work. I do have that sense of urgency, I’m working on all my down time to get this off the ground. Thank you for posting this, it helps to hear it from other people that it’s a much needed change.
Why don't they want to help launch an idea that has been proven to work?
This was a very interesting TEDx talk that makes a point to try help non-profits.
Great talk. worth watching....
I agree with going after the winners. I have been involved with nonprofits, as a staff member and volunteer, and have found the people sitting in positions of leadership can actually hinder an organization. There are boards who want to micromanage but won't put in the work of governance or make an annual donation. Directors who want funding but won't step out of their office to greet a donor or check on employee morale, etc. People seem more committed to keeping the doors open (for a job), than the actual mission. At the same time, funders need to be aware that asking nonprofits to always have some new or innovative program is an unrealistic expectation that sends solid nonprofits into "mission creep". I think funders can help by walking nonprofits through evaluation/capacity building and by freeing up more funds for "general operations" so agencies can do their core work well instead of a half dozen "fluff" projects on a mediocre scale.
I am so drained when it comes to videos like this because I have the knowledge, the program written down on paper but I don't have the three people required to start a nonprofit here where I live.
That is great, please do this
1. Choose competent person you think can do the best you and objectives of your organization expect from aperson
2. Organization take time, money and energy to make it realistic to community
3. Double your efforts for it and hire consultant for technical areas
I also have organization on paper while am still study and no resources available for implementation of some short projects ?
I appreciate your advise and tips towards my ideas
If you can’t get 3 people together you’ll have a hard time raising thousands of dollars every year. Perhaps focus on your networking skills first? My tip is to connect with big existing groups first, like schools, colleges, businesses etc.
If you can't find 3 board members to start, don't start a non profit because that's the easy part of running a non profit. From an international non profit executive director with 80+ staff
Where are you, iam starting mine in my country Kenya
Results not always are measured in freaking $s. Imagine if Wikipedia was not out there; people were citing their cousin's Instagram quotes in their logical arguments!!!!
sorry Sir, you are not Dr.King and I have to disagree. There are so many valuable, important NPOs out there, small ones, that help instead of wasting time on administrative work, collect data, enter data, analyse data just because some people are data obsesses. They just HELP others and it´s unfair that you tell people to stop supporting them but to invest their donation in some large orgs with expensive people and big overhead costs.
You know ... Red Cross ...doesn't most of the money given go to overhead ???? Isn't their executive pay high?????
I have a good non profit idea in kenya
Why do people quote Dr. King like they think that they are actually saying something ??? I wonder how much are they paying him at the non profit where he works ??? and I'm sure a lot of the people he knows makes high salaries in those large non profits ...
Dude you make 1,000,000,+ a year for ameri corps " nonprofit" lol 😂. Seems like you getting a big profit. No wonder you telling everyone to invest you are just trying to get more investors so you make more money.