Nonprofit Technology and Social Enterprise Reports and Studies
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The following resources are mostly portable document format (PDF) files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free at http://www.adobe.com/. Adobe also offers a PDF-to-HTML conversion tool, available at http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html, which allows you to read PDFs as HTML; the tool is entirely Web-based and requires no download.
report @ http://www.compasspoint.org/enonprofit/
"The eNonprofit: A Guide to ASPs, Internet Services, and Online Software"
guide, co-authored by Michael Stein and John Kenyon and published by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, to software tools made available by application service providers, or ASPs
white paper @ http://www.wbcsd.ch/projects/wssd/business-case.pdf
"The Business Case for Sustainable Development"
white paper, brought out by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, on why sustainable development makes good business sense
report @ http://www.techrocks.org/pubs/InternetSocialEnterprise.pdf
"After the Bubble" report put out by the Flatiron Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies, an excellent analysis of how nonprofits can--or cannot--use the Internet as a revenue-producing tool
report @ http://www.independentsector.org/PDFs/WiredWillingReady.pdf
"Wired, Willing, and Ready: Nonprofit Human Services Organizations' Adoption of Technology"
report prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Independent Sector and Cisco Systems
December 2001
workbook @ http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/challenge/index.html
"Meeting the Collaboration Challenge: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses" is available from the Peter F. Drucker Foundation Web site as a PDF, which you can download, or as HTML, for your online-reading pleasure. Designed to complement The Collaboration Challenge by James Austin, the goal of the workbook is to aid nonprofits in pursuing their mission through strategic alliances with businesses.
white paper @ http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,c_issue_brief^d_2128,00.html
"A Vision of E-Learning for America's Workforce"
report from the Commission on Technology and Adult Learning (a joint initiative of the National Governor's Association and the American Society for Training and Development) that focuses on e-learning for adults in the workplace and makes recommendations on how the nation's governors and CEOs can encourage e-learning and maximize its benefits for workers and productivity
June 2001
online publication @ http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/listserv/elearning/PDFs/5416f2.pdf
"Managing Change: The Art of Balancing"
by Jeanie Daniel Duck in the Harvard Business Review
November 2001
white paper @ http://www.surdna.org/documents/morefinal.pdf
"More Than Bit Players: How Information Technology Will Change the Ways Nonprofits and Foundations Work and Thrive in the Information Age"
report to the Surdna Foundation by Andrew Blau
May 2001
online publication @ http://www.independentsector.org/PDFs/factfind4.pdf
"The Impact of Information Technology on Civil Society" Facts and Findings, Vol. 3, No. 2
from the Independent Sector
summer 2001
primer @ http://www.isoph.com/pdfs/e-learning_primer.pdf
"E-learning Primer"
from Isoph
spring 2001
diagram @ http://www.allianceonline.org/universe.pdf
The Universe of Nonprofit Management and Governance Capacity-builders
from The Alliance for Nonprofit Management
April 2001
report @ http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org/report2001.html
A survey from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation reveals an increasing number of MBA programs recognize the relevance of social and environmental stewardship.
sourcebook@ http://www.northlandinst.org/sourcebook.cfm
The Social Enterprise Sourcebook profiles 14 nonprofits engaged in social enterprise, or the use of earned income ventures to support mission, and catalogs their challenges and successes. These case studies provide examples of social enterprise from which other nonprofits can learn and borrow. The 104-page sourcebook is available for free as a PDF.