NESsT in the Press

 

 

A selection of articles by/about NESsT appearing in the press from 1997 to present:

Members of the press are encouraged to contact Lee Davis,  NESsT Co-Founder and CEO, for more information about NESsT at: ldavis@nesst.org; Tel: +(1 209) 988-9604.

 

2008 >2007 > 2006 > 2005 > 2004 > 2003 > 2002 >

2001 > 2000 > 1999-

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2008

Gedaref Digital City Oreganization 's Ahmed Eisa Chairman, hands over a souvenier to NESsT's Loic Comolli during the 4th EATLF November 8-9 2007 in Kampala Uganda Photo Esther Nasikye

 

 

Malcolm Hayday

“There have been a number of false dawns but borrowing money is now forming a strategic part of the way the third sector organises its funding. The last thing that lenders like Charity Bank should be doing, however, is encouraging organisations that should not be borrowing to borrow.”

Malcolm Hayday, chief executive of Charity Bank

From "We're part of the mainstream", January 2008

2007

"Today, telecentres offer advanced and sophisticated products and services to sustain their activities and to better respond to the needs of their constituencies."

From "NESsT Leads Discussion on Social Enterprise for Telecentres", October 23, 2007.

 

“We are the beneficiaries

of broad-based market support for our leading electronic bond trading platform, and it is gratifying to support charities whose mission is to improve the lives of young people in the emerging markets."

From "MarketAxess Announces Fourth Annual Charity Trading Day: Trading Revenues to Benefit Emerging Market Charities," September 24, 2007.

 

"Partnering with NESsT, CroNGO organized a series of trainings/hands-on workshops on self-financing for 14 Croatian NGOs."

From The CroNGO Program: Legacy for the Future, a publication of USAID and the Academy for Educational Development (AED).

"We at CAF are keen to support engaged giving and social enterprise in emerging markets and provide

core funding for NESsT."

From "An Introduction to Philanthropy," in the Charities Aid Foundation's July 2007 newsletter.

 

"Seminar participants were able to see how venture philanthropy works in practice: OGI, a nonprofit organization, presented its business plan to offer financial management consulting services to nonprofit organizations in the Osijek region to a jury of mock investors."

 

From "Self-financing Activities and Social Enterprise," in News and Views (magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia), March 2007.

 

"Salesforce provides the platform for NESsT's growth globally. As we open our new office in Lima, for example, Salesforce is the lifeline between NESsT and our consortium of partners throughout Peru and internationally. "

From "NESsT Seeds Sustainable Social Enterprises with Support from Salesforce.com Foundation 1/1/1 Model ," January 2007.

 

2006

"While few would disagree that Mr. Buffett's donation ... is a magnificent act of charity, reporters covering the story seemed so filled with awe and admiration that they failed to ask important questions about the implications of this enormous transfer of philanthropic funds."

NESsT Board member Bruce Sievers in his article, “Questions Reporters Should Have Asked About the Buffett Donation,” Alliance Magazine, September 2006, pp 22-23.

 

'"The expansion and growth of social enterprises across Croatia represents an exciting opportunity to address the needs of particularly marginalized groups and communities in the country. When given the financial and business development support they need, social enterprises can help ensure the financial sustainability of local CSOs while also contributing to local economic development, providing employment/job training opportunities to those in need."

From "Creating Economic and Social Benefits: The Emergence of a Social Enterprise Sector in Croatia," by NESsT's Eva Varga, in News & Views (Magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia), Issue No. 5; 21 September 2006, pp 24-25.

 

 

"With the help of NESsT, P-Centrum created a "feasibility study and a business plan, and garnered additional financial and technical assistance to expand its woodworking shop, identify new markets for its products, and find new sources of funding for its addiction recovery program."

Czech nonprofit and NESsT portfolio member P-Centrum uses a woodworking shop to help recovering drug addicts gain job skills and earn income. The Stanford Social Innovation Review explores the history and accomplishments of their social enteprise.

From "Carving out a Niche: A Czech social enterprise uses woodworking to help drug addicts," by Will Tizard, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2006 (pp. 64-65).

Chilean government agency, the Foundation for Agrarian Reforma, recognizes the work of NESsT portfolio member RUF Cunco, a rural CSOS that has hired local indigenous women to help produce a line of natural beauty creams.

"First Line of Mapuche Beauty Creams Launched," from www.fia.cl (Santiago, Chile: June 28th, 2006). In Spanish only.

 

NESsT named a finalist in this year's Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards!

The awards, sponsored by the Fast Company magazine, honor civil sector organizations that use corporate/business practices to fight social problems. The contest seeks to find the 25 best CSOs that are changing the world. The third annual competition involves a rigorous application/interview process and focuses on the most successful "using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems."

 

"NESsT helped us professionalize our

enterprise ideas in order to make them happen."

Jorge Reyes of NESsT Venture Fund portfolio organization Agrupación de Ingenieros Forestales por el Bosque Nativo of Valdivia, Chile. With the support of Deutsche Bank, NESsT awarded Ingenieros Forestales with a Venture Planning Grant on January 10th for the development of a business plan for their enterprise idea, the sale of certified firewood in a community of Southern Chile surrounded by endangered forests.

"Deutsche Bank Awards Prize: Certified Firewood Project Wins," El Diario Austral De Valdivia (Valdivia, Chile: January 17, 2006). In Spanish only.

 

2005

"On 13 October, NESsT presented its third 'Golden Egg Award' for excellence in international venture philanthropy to Brian Wardrop of DBG Eastern Europe, a CEE-focused private equity firm with offices in Budapest, Bucharest, Prague and Warsaw. The award recognizes Wardrop's leadership as one of the most active advisers, donors and volunteers to the NESsT Venture Fund in Central Europe."

"Third NESsT Golden Egg Award,” Alliance Magazine (London: Allavida, December 2005), Page 4.

 

"There is growing interest in venture philanthropy within the international business community, because it gives donors an opportunity to be personally invovled with their selected charitable causes. " 

NESsT staff member Eva Varga in, "Venture Philanthropy in Central & Eastern Europe: Only the Beginning," by Martin Kolmhofer, Finance New Europe, December 13, 2005.

 

"We try to get additional financing for the entrepreneurial activities of NGOs by offering businesspeople who wish to aid the civil sector a new, carefully targeted way of being philanthropic – an approach dubbed ‘venture philanthropy’ – which is very similar to for-profit venture capital investing.”

Eva Varga, NESsT Enterprise Development Manager, in

"Hatching Eggs: An NGO Helps Other NGOs Find Profitmaking Avenues to Fund Their Activities," by Judit Zegnál in Budapest Business Journal (Budapest: November 17 2005). Read online or in PDF format.

 

"Lee Davis, Co-Founder of NESsT, is one of venture philanthropy's most vocal critics of this emphasis on growth, 'a lot of effective nonprofits can be destroyed by trying to scale them,' he says, arguing that only a fraction of charities would benefit from significant expansion."

From "Nothing Ventured," by Dalia Fahmy, Worth Magazine, November 2005 (pp 110-113).

 

The new international initiative, telecentre.org, will invest in strengthening the capacity of tens of thousands of community-based telecentres around the world. Sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Microsoft Corporation, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), telecentre.org will also invest in "the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT) and TakingITGlobal (TIG), two global organizations that will play a key role in providing support services to telecentre networks."

From "Launch of telecentre.org to Strengthen the Global Telecentre Movement," www.telecentre.org, (November 17 2005)

 

"Entre los proyectos financiados (por NESsT) hay iniciativas ambientales, ciudadanas, de derechos humanos, de salud mental, de aprendizaje de niños y artísticas. El aporte de NESsT se mueve entre los US$4 mil y US$10 mil anuales por organización."

"NESsT Supports Twenty Groups in Chile : Nonprofits Create Enterprises to Become Sustainable," El Diario Financiero (Santiago: October 3 2005). ("NESsT apoya a una veintena en Chile: Fundaciones sin fines de lucro crean empresas para hacerse sustentables") In Spanish only.

 

"Muchos donantes están cansados de financiar proyectos. Con este modelo se apoya a organizaciones sociales sin experiencia y nuestro rol es minimizar el riesgo, capacitarlas, ver su plan de negocios y también las expectativas que tienen."

Nicole Etchart in "Finalists in the Social Entreprenuer of the Year Competion: The New Heroes," by Marcela Escobar Q. in El Mercurio, Revista El Sabado (Santiago: October 1 2005), pages 28-32. ("Finalistas del concurso emprendedor social del año: Los nuevos héroes") In Spanish only.

 

"The promise and potential of venture philanthropy in Europe may still be in its nascent stage and only time will tell how effectively it will be applied. However, while the US venture philanthropy "industry" may have experience and financial advantage, its younger European sister has already invested far more in defining a compelling rationale/vision for venture philanthropy."

Lee Davis and Nicole Etchart, NESsT Co-Founders & CEOs, "The Quiet Revolution: Engaged Philanthropy Comes of Age in Europe," in Philanthropy in Europe (Château Lassalle, France: No. 22, September 2005).

 

"In the private equity industry in Central Europe we face many of the same challenges with the companies that we invest in as NESsT faces with the social enterprises that they support."

An interview with Brian Wardrop, Partner with DGB Eastern Europe and winner of the 2005 NESsT International Venture Philanthropy Award, in "From Venture Capital to Venture Philanthropy- Interview with Brian Wardrop," Alliance Extra, November, 2005.

 

"Venture philanthropy may have started out from a position of strength in the United States - a high profile and early impetus were supplied by 'new philanthropists' during the boom years of the 1990s - but it is in Europe that its momentum is now greater and perhaps more lasting."

A story comparing venture philanthropy in the US and Europe, based on an article by NESsT Co-Founder & CEO Lee Davis, in "European Venture Philanthropy Further Ahead Than its US Counterpart?" in EVPA News, newsletter of the European Venture Philanthropy Association, Issue 4, Autumn 2005.

 

"The 'NESsT Golden Egg Award' will be presented at the Forum to a member of the CEE   private equity/venture capital industry who is a role model for giving back to the communities/region in which our industry invests.The 9th Annual CEE Private Equity Forum is the ultimate meeting place for private equity professionals to share their views, techniques and discuss the latest transactions."

The 2005 NESsT International Venture Philanthropy Award (NESsT Golden Egg Award) was presented on 13 October at the 9th Annual Central & Eastern European Private Equity Forum in London. Click here to read the event agenda or the award press release.

 

"The next step is what Etchart calls 'engaged philanthropy,' focused not on absorbing short-term needs . . . but on helping organizations create effective, permanent change. 'That's what it takes, especially for social problems,' she says. 'It's complex and there are many levels. The way philanthropy has been framed, unfortunately, relies on quick results.'"


Nicole Etchart, NESsT Co-Founder & CEO, in "Giving for Beginners" by Greg Browne in Latin Trade Magazine (Miami: January 2005). Click here to read this article in both English and Spanish versions.

 

2004

Lee Davis & Nicole Etchart, "Risky Business: The Impacts of Merging Market and Mission" in Global Connections (London: Resource Alliance, 2004).

 

"NESsT has taught me that there can be a lot of overlap between the for-profit & non-profit worlds -- that there are lots of opportunities to have a rewarding career, and there are many avenues through which one can work for social change.”

Profile of Jayne Morgan, NESsT Finance & Operations Director, in "Enterprising Alum Works for Social Change," by Brendan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Magazine (St. Louis, Missouri: Fall 2004). See also "Jayne Morgan Works for Social Change."

 

"If we push organizations to grow, the balance can be thrown off . . . Sometimes small really is beautiful."

Lee Davis, NESsT Co-Founder & CEO, at the Venture Philanthropy Summit as quoted in "Supporters Say Venture Philanthropy Still Thrives, Even if Reach Is Limited" by  Ben Gose, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Washington, DC: October 14, 2004).

 

"Why can't non-profits also capture part of the market, to build assets and become players for social ends?"

Nicole Etchart, NESsT Co-Founder & CEO, in "Going Better on Good Causes" by Maria O'Brien, Wall Street Editor for LatinFinance Magazine No. 160, IMF Special Issue (September 2004), pages 57-59.

 

"The extension of the NESsT Venture Fund from Central Europe to Latin America was initially possible because of the common challenges facing CSO-run social enterprises in both regions. Alliance September 2004The creation of a proven methodology and appropriate tools allowed this replication to happen fairly smoothly. However, it was only by investing in entrance research, systematizing lessons learned, and adapting to the unique local circumstances that we were able to successfully replicate the model."

Nicole Etchart, NESsT Co-Founder & CEO, in "Unique and universal: Adapting the NESsT Venture Fund model,"

Alliance Magazine (London: Allavida, September 2004), Page 21. Read online or in PDF format.

 

Business at Oxford"NESsT is one of the most energetic and innovative organisations operating in the field known as 'venture philanthropy', whereby philanthropists 'invest' in non-profits almost as if they were start-up enterprises."

"NESsT: Incubating Social Enterprise," Business at Oxford (Oxford University, Said Business School, Issue 5; Summer 2004). Pages 8-9.

 

"Risky Business is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on social enterprise. In fact,

if you only read one book on this increasingly important subject, make it this one."

Lisa M. Cannon book review of Risky Business: The Impacts of Merging Mission and Market by Lee Davis, Nicole Etchart, Maria Cecilia Jara and Brian Milder of NESsT

(NESsT: Santiago, 2004) in Alliance Magazine Vol 9, No 2 (London: Allavida, June 2004), Page 47.

Read book review in PDF format.

To purchase a copy of Risky Business, click here.

 

Book Cover "The far more urgent challenge (certainly in the context of a book dedicated to systemic change) is, as Borstein also notes, to identify new financing sources and strategies beyond simply philanthropy to enable social entrepreneurs to scale up their activities to more significant levels."

Lee Davis, book review of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein (Oxford University Press) in Alliance Magazine Vol 9, No 2 (London: Allavida, June 2004), Page 46. Read book review in PDF format.

Lee Davis and Nicole Etchart, "Supporting Nonprofit Enterprise in Emerging Markets," Chapter 12 in Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, April 2004). Compiled by the Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures.

"Promoting self-financing among social organizations in Chile" (Promuevan autofinanciamiento de organizaciones sociales en Chile) on Canal Solidario at Terra.cl (April 2004). Spanish only

"Nicole Etchart and I, who started NESsT seven years ago, saw as real limitations in the social capital market and we really wanted to show how you could develop new tools and new strategies for growing and supporting and developing social enterprises."

Lee Davis, "Interviews on the Edge," an interview from the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University (Skoll Foundation: SocialEdge, March 2004).

Listen to the interview: Download (mp3) or Stream (m3u)

 

Alliance March 2004
"It's time to place greater value on 'infrastructure' in the nonprofit sector and on those 'invisible' infrastructure-building organizations that work to build it. These organizations need to be recognized as an essential part of building a healthy and sustainable nonprofit sector, and this means being willing to pay for their services."

Lee Davis and Nicole Etchart in "The Era of Nonprofit Infrastructure Entitlement is Over: Towards a self-sustaining infrastructure," Alliance Extra, March 2004 (London: Alliance Magazine).

Lee Davis on "Next-Generation Philanthropy," Episode 5 of "The San Franciscans: A Local Philanthropy Focus" on Access San Francisco (Access SF) Cable Channel 29.

"Budte pripravení: hodnotenie pripravenosti na samofinancovanie" Efekt c.2 2004 (Bratislava: slovenske neziskove servisne centrum - Slovak nonprofit service center, February 2004). (Click here to read the English translation: ("Get ready, get set: Assessing Readiness").

 

"Current Books on Civil Society:

A Review of the NESsT Legal Guide Series," in The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law (IJNL), a quarterly publication by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). Volume 6, Issue 2 (January 2004).

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2003

Magyar Rádió Peto András of Hungarian Radio / Radio Petofi interviews NESsT Enterprise Development Associate Eva Várga (Budapest: Hungarian Radio / Radio Petofi, December 1, 2003). (Click here to listen to the original interview in Hungarian). (Click here to read an English translation of the original Hungarian transcript of the interview).

Nicole Etchart, "Rol de las ONGs," Educando para la responsabilidad social: la universidad en su función docente, (Santiago: Proyecto Construye Pais, December 2003).

 

"Korytnacka a zajac: udrzatelnost kontra zavislost" EFEKT, Issue 3 (Bratislava: slovenske neziskove servisne centrum - Slovak nonprofit service center, November 2003).

(Slovak only)

Todd Schenk, "Non-profits till their own gardens: As donations dry up in Central and Eastern Europe, non-profit groups need to ask how they can serve their communities," The Bulletin, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Szentendre: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Summer 2003).

 

Net Impact's logo Member Success Story: Joanna Messing, Enterprise Development Director, NESsT (San Francisco: Net Impact: New Leaders for Better Business, 2003).

"Venture Philanthropy Embraces Key Strategies of Venture Capitalists," Knowledge@Wharton (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, May 2003).

 

“NESsT’s not about charity…It’s into business plans, management skills, long-term strategy, business ethics and efficiency. It’s into running a tight ship.”

Koranyi, Balazs, "Central Europe's Non-Profits Cope With Funding Vacuum," Dow Jones Newswires (February 13, 2003).

Antonio Itriago, Regional Editor for Latin America with IJCSL Staff, "Book Notes: NESsT Legal Series: Guides for CSO Self-Financing in Chile and Colombia," International Journal of Civil Society Law, Volume 1-1 (2003) p. 93.

Lee Davis, "NESsT Launches Legal Guides for Social Enterprises in Emerging Democracies," Social Economy and Law (Brussels: European Foundation Centre, Winter 2002-2003), p53.

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2002

Lee Davis & Nicole Etchart, "Venture Philanthropy: Black Sheep in Wolves Clothing," Proposiciones Issue 34 (Santiago: Ediciones SUR, November 2002) (spanish only)

Alberto Roa, "International Organization Promotes Self-Financing of Civil Society in Chile." Opus Gay (Santiago: MOVILH, November 2002).

"NESsT Venture Fund Launched in Chile," Alliance Magazine Vol.7, No.4 (London: Allavida, November 2002), page 12-13.

 David Yanovich, "The Best of Both Worlds: The concept of venture philanthropy is proving to be one of the most efficient means of financing non-profit organizations." PODER (Miami: Revista PODER, October 2002), pages 46-48. 

Lee Davis & Nicole Etchart, "Venture Philanthropy: Panacea or Snake Oil?" Micro-Enterprise Americas, Special section on Social Investment in Latin America (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2002), pages 59-61.

"Leading Philanthropy into the 21st Century," in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Matters, Edition 21 (Brisbane, Australia: Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, October 2002), page 2.

 Rebecca Turner, "Values for Money," BOSS Magazine Vol 3 (Sydney: Australian Financial Review, August 2002)


Julie McCrossin, "Venture Philanthropy: An interview with Lee Davis of NESsT," on "Life Matters" (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National, July 18, 2002).

Lee Davis & Nicole Etchart, "From Dot-com to Dot-org: Seattle Venture Capital Lawyers Shift to Venture Philanthropy in Latin America," in Social Entrepreneurs Magazine (Seattle: Social Entrepreneurs of Washington (SEW), June 2002). www.socialenterprisemagazine.org.

 


Lee Davis & Nicole Etchart, guest editors: 'Venture philanthropy - the future of philanthropy or misguided hubris?' Special feature on venture philanthropy in Alliance: Building Resources for the Community Worldwide, Vol. 7, No. 2 (London: Allavida, June 2002), pages 21-40.

Download this special issue of Alliance Magazine (Vol 7 No 2, June 2002) on venture philanthropy to review other articles written by NESsT staff, board members and donors, including:

  • Nicole Etchart & Lee Davis, "Venture Philanthropy: Prophets for non-profits?" (pages 21-24)
  • Bruce Sievers, "Non-profits in ventureland." (pages 25-27)
  • "The Venture Capitalist: From investment to donation," an interview with Zoltan Toth, Advent International (page 32)
  • Tamas Scsaurszki, CS Mott Foundation, "The 'Traditional' Grantmaker': Three reasons for supporting NESsT." (page 33)
  • "Venture philanthropy around the world: NESsT Venture Fund" (p34-35)
  • Juan Pablo Iribarne, "Can venture philanthropy work in Argentina?" (page 36)

Dušan Dvorák, “Filantropie a peníze” (Prague, ICN, March 28, 2002) (Czech only)

"Europe Discusses Venture Philanthropy," Philanthropy in Europe, Issue No. 9 (Paris: January 2002) p13.

NESsT (International Profiles) in Venture Philanthropy 2002: Advancing Nonprofit Performance Through High-Engagement Grantmaking, prepared by Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. for Venture Philanthropy Partners, Inc. (Reston, Virginia, Venture Philanthropy Partners, Inc., 2002). pp 156-159.

"Profits for Nonprofits: Lee Davis, Class of '88" Connecticut College Magazine Vol. 11, No. 1 (New London: Connecticut College, Winter 2002), pages 74-75. 

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2001

"Venture Philanthropy Brings 'Social Returns'," The Wall Street Journal (Paris: The Wall Street Journal, European Edition, December 28, 2001).

 "Finding the Holy Grail in Budapest?" Alliance Magazine: Building Resources for the Community Worldwide, Vol. 6, No. 4 (London: Allavida, Dec 2001), page 2.

"Profits for Nonprofits: NESsT Hatches a Nonprofit Capital Market," FastCompany.com "Fast 50 Social Entrepreneurs," (www.fastcompany.com/fast50, November 2001).

"The Double Bottom Line: Social and Financial Returns," Innovations for Microenterprise Development, IV Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise (Santo Domingo: Inter-American Development Bank, November 2001). 

"The International Venture Philanthropy Forum," Honorable Tom Lantos of California, US House of Representatives in Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress of the United States of America, First Session (Washington, DC: October 2, 2001)

"Nonprofit to Help Fund Organizations," SeaChange: The Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Marketplace for Social Change (San Francisco: SeaChange, 2001).

"Financing Civil Society in Central Europe; NESsT: Applying a Venture Philanthropy Approach," Business Hungary, Vol. XV/03 (Budapest: American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, Sept 2001).

"A Venture for Those Who Want Their Money to do a Good Turn," The Budapest Sun (Business) (Budapest: The Budapest Sun, Sept 20-26, 2001), page 7.

"REC Helps NGO Help Themselves," The Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, July 2001).

"The Rise of New Philanthropy in the Old World: Venture Philanthropy in Europe," Philanthropy in Europe, Issue No. 6 (Paris: April 2001) pages 10-11.

"Venture Philanthropy: The Black Sheep in Wolves Clothing," Changemakers.net (Arlington, VA: Ashoka, 2001)

 

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2000

"Sustaining Social Change: An Analysis of Self-Financing Among Local Civil Society Organizations," Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Projects & Findings (Washington, DC: Aspen Institute).

"The International Venture Philanthropy Forum: Exploring New Investment Models for the Non-Profit Sector," Social Economy and Law (Brussels: European Foundation Centre, Autumn 2000).

"Foundation Nudges Local Non-Profits to be More Business-Like," Budapest Business Journal (Budapest: BBJ, Oct 23-29, 2000).

"Books: Profits for Nonprofits," Alliance Magazine: Building Resources for the Community Worldwide, Vol. 5, No. 3 (London: Charities Aid Foundation).

"New Venture Fund to Provide Capital for NGO Enterprises," Alliance Magazine: Building Resources for the Community Worldwide, Vol. 5, No. 3 (London: Charities Aid Foundation).

"NGO Financing Help," The Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, June 2000).

"Sustainable NGO Financing," Charity Know How Annual Review 1998/99 (London: Charity Know How, 1999).

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1999

"The NGO Venture Forum: Profits for Nonprofits," CIVICUS World (Washington, DC: CIVICUS, Mar-Apr 1999), page 18.

"The NGO Venture Forum: International Gathering Examines the Possibilities of Merging Mission and Market," Social Economy and Law, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Brussels: European Foundation Centre, Spring 1999), page 39.

"Keeping 'Green Line' in the Black," in NGO Financing, The Bulletin (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe), page 11.

"Profits for Non-profits: The NGO Venture Forum," The Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe), page 11.

"Sustainability through Self-Financing: Lessons from Central Europe," Give & Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia (Washington, DC: ISAR, Summer 1999), page 17.

"Diversifying the Non-Profit Capital Market in Central Europe," Social Economy and Law, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Brussels: European Foundation Centre, Autumn 1999), page 39.

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1998

"Self-Financing Strategies for Georgia's NGOs: Challenges and Perspectives," Horizonti Magazine (Georgia: Horizonti Foundation, Summer 1998).

"The NESsT Approach: Sustaining Social Change through Self-Financing," Grassroots Development, Vol 21, No. 2  (Washington, DC: Inter-American Foundation, 1998), page 52.

"Financing Ourselves: CSOs as Entrepreneurs," CIVICUS World (Washington, DC: CIVICUS, Jul-Aug 1998), pages 1-4.

"Nonprofit Business," Public Policy & International Affairs, Johns Hopkins Magazine Vol 50, No. 3 (Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins SAIS, June 1998), page 41.

"NGO-Business Hybrids," CIVICUS World (Washington, DC: CIVICUS, May-Jun 1998), page 15-16.

"Students Attend Nonprofit Sustainable Financing Workshop," Social Change and Development News Vol. 9, No. 1 (Washington, DC: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Spring 1998).

"Self-Financing to Avoid the 'Tyranny' of Donors," Insight Vol. 2, No. 3 (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Winter 1998).

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1997

"Making Money: Strategies for Earning Income," CIVICUS World (Washington, DC: CIVICUS, Oct-Nov 1997), page 1.

"The NGO Entrepreneur: Nonprofit in Purpose, For-Profit in Approach," Surviving Together, Vol. 15, Issue 3 (Washington, DC: ISAR, Fall 1997).

"Sustainable Financing for Nonprofit Organizations," Revista 3, No. 3 (Bucharest: Civil Society Development Foundation, June 1997).

"Sink or Swim: The Struggle for Sustainable NGO Financing," The Bulletin (Budapest: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Spring 1997).

"Out of the Crisis Workshop Seeks New Directions," Social Change and Development News Vol. 9, No. 1 (Washington, DC: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Spring 1997).

 



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