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MANAGEMENT INFO NEWS/RESOURCES
january 2004
Community-Enabled Innovation - How Companies Learn from Engagement
Innovation drives business success, and community engagement can help drive innovation. The result of over two years work and international engagement on the so-called 'business case' for Corporate Responsibility this report shows how companies can structure their Corporate Responsibility practices to inform business development if these practices are genuinely to add value to company performance. Bringing together both strategic insight and practical guidance, this is a valuable report for both senior executives, innovation practitioners, corporate responsibility managers and the community partners with whom they work.
http://www.accountability.org.uk/uploadstore/cms/docs/AA%20ITP%20(exec).pdf
Knowledge Management Comes to Philanthropy
This McKinsey Quarterly article discusses the fact that dwindling endowments and increasing public scrutiny place philanthropic foundations under pressure to do more with less. Such pressure has an upside, however: it highlights the fact that the true cornerstone of effective philanthropy is a foundation's knowledge, not its money.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?ar=1310&L2=33&srid=69
Unlocking the Hidden Wealth of Organisations: the development and communication of intangible assets
On 3 December 2003, a major Cass Business School report on thought leadership in the management of intangibles was launched. The report summarises the latest thinking on intangibles, examines four approaches being adopted in practice, and sets out a series of key messages. The report draws on eight original case studies of good practice in the UK private and public sectors, Austria, Italy, Sweden and the US.
http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/media/stories/resources/
Cass_UnlockingHiddenWealthofOrgnanisations.pdf
Creative Arts Marketing
This publication gives a comprehensive overview of all aspects of marketing in the arts sector with coverage of current knowledge and best practice about marketing and advertising through new media, the impact of Relationship Marketing techniques, case studies, updated data on the sector.
Action Packet for European Foundations to promote Johns Hopkins Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts
The John Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies has developed an information package on the Handbook specially designed for foundations in Europe. The package contains background materials on the Handbook, the information it will generate, and an Action Packet which offers materials that interested foundations could use to help promote the implementation of the Handbook in their respective countries. The Action Packet includes a sample letter to national statistical authorities, contact information, and an estimate of the costs of carrying out an initial feasibility process and a subsequent full implementation of the "satellite account" on non-profit institutions that the Handbook recommends. The Center for Civil Society has formed a Civil Society Information Network, or CiviNet, consisting of a small secretariat and a network of affiliates to move the implementation process forward. This network is actively working to encourage adoption of the Handbook and to assemble and publish the resulting data. CiviNet has generated partial support for this implementation effort from the Ford Foundation. To date, six countries - Australia, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Italy and the US - are now working to implement the Handbook or some version of it.
http://www.efc.be/content/alert.asp?contentid=547
Report on Fundraising in Ireland
A report published by the Ireland Funds, Fostering Fundraising in Ireland, shows that the capacity to give in Ireland has grown exponentially. For instance, there are now an estimated two hundred and fifty millionaires in Ireland while company profits have grown substantially. The report shows the sector in Ireland, North and South, represents almost two point five billion Euros in activity. So it would seem that the sector has the capacity and prestige to attract private support and that the private sector, both individuals and corporate bodies, has more than the capacity to respond.
The report can be downloaded from:
http://www.irlfunds.org/news/ffund/download.html
2003 Nonprofit Times Top 100
This special report on America's largest nonprofits, available in PDF format, features the following articles:
- Posted Modest Growth In 2002
- Who's Counting? Apparently Very Few
- Layoffs At NPT 100 Groups Becoming More Frequent
- Shifting Risk Is Preserving Some Nonprofit Portfolios
- What Box?
- Special Events Still A Go-To Fundraising Vehicle
- Organizations Managing With Rainy Day Funds
