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Read about the journeys of some interesting innovations in the Kent Year of Innovation Stories of Change book.
If you have any difficulty accessing this document, please contact innovation@kent.gov.uk for an alternative.
For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost provider” or “the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe and understand the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives, to their detriment, are not as explicit about their funding models and have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.
When a person says that a company is a “low-cost provider” or a “fast follower,” the main outlines of how that company operates are pretty clear. Similarly, stating that a company is using “the razor and the razor blade” model describes a type of ongoing customer relationship that applies far beyond shaving products.
The value of such shorthand is that it allows business leaders to articulate quickly and clearly how they will succeed in the marketplace, and it allows investors to quiz executives more easily about how they intend to make money. This back-and-forth increases the odds that businesses will succeed, investors will make money, and everyone will learn more from their experiences.
The nonprofit world rarely engages in equally clear and succinct conversations about an organization’s long- term funding strategy. That is because the different types of funding that fuel nonprofits have never been clearly defined.3 More than a poverty of language, this represents—and results in—a poverty of understanding and clear thinking.
Through our research, we have identified 10 nonprofit models that are commonly used by the largest nonprofits in the United States. (See “Funding Models” on page 37.) Our intent is not to prescribe a single approach for a given nonprofit to pursue. Instead, we hope to help nonprofit leaders articulate more clearly the models that they believe could support the growth of their organizations, and use that insight to examine the potential and constraints associated with those models.
10 nonpforit funding biz-models: various strategic approches towards operational sustainability. This links really well to the harvard business review (HBR) practical table that outlined: strategy, business model, tactics, values. I have put a floating bubble on the page with the link to the HBR document. Donwloadable as A PDF.
This is the article from marketing week which i photocopied for Eliz & Bunny. Check it out. Read it between the lines and see how documentaries could help your charities ;-) eliz and I were having brain storm regarding documenting angels, and this showed up ;-)
'Young people and their information needs in the
context of the information society'
Strasbourg, 1st October 2007
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
BETWEEN ERYICA AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Colloquy
Council of Europe/ERYICA
"The future of youth information in Europe"
26-27 November 2007
European Youth Centre Budapest
'Young people and their information needs in the
context of the information society'
Document prepared for: Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe /European Agency for
Youth Information and Counselling 'Colloquy on youth information' - Budapest, November 2007
Author: Neil Selwyn, London Knowledge Lab, UK [n.selwyn@ioe.ac.uk]