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What Business Execs Don't Know - but Should - About Nonprofits

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Title: Editing What Business Execs Don't Know - but Should - About Nonprofits
Author: Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento
Type: Article
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Date: Summer 2006
Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector -- as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations. In this article, 11 executives who have played leadership roles in both for-profits and nonprofits reveal the critical differences between the two, and suggest ways that business and nonprofit leaders can use this information to create a more effective social sector.

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