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Let’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part II of III)
Grange halls make badass theater spaces. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice, juicy case study about...
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Let’s Turn this Old Barn into a Theater! (Part III of III)
Big Car in Indianapolis, IN is a former auto service center. Dear Reader, About a year ago the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCD) working group asked your Man About Town to write a nice,...
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Are You TED Talk Ready? The Importance of Conceptual Capital
It used to just take two. Those days are over. In the callow youth of the nonprofit sector, you needed two kinds of capital: (1) financial capital, because money does, after all, grease the wheels of...
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Social impact investment and the failure of imagination
Do you know what you don’t know? Domestic social impact investment is stuck. Each year a few deals trickle through, but despite the potential and promise, impact investments in the US are rare,...
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The New Dawn of the Nonprofit Merger
Mergers – never easy. It used to be that the idea of one nonprofit taking over another was simply anathema. Nonprofits didn’t, you know, do that to one another. Mergers and acquisitions were the...
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#OMG: Why the #NPO sector is #tech averse
I’d be lion if I said I wasn’t surprised. So I was talking to a friend of mine at a very large nonprofit organization – as in over $100 million in annual revenues. They serve thousands of clients...
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Do good techies make good neighbors?
CSR to the rescue – insert logo here. Everybody knows that if you want to restore integrity to your downtown business corridor or your local industrial park, if you want to create jobs and point your...
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Three Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ideas We Should Do Immediately...
When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better. Dear reader, you know me. I like to talk. When I talk to people I get ideas. Mostly they are other people’s ideas that I simply steal. But...
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On Whiteness
@manabouttownnyc Good solid two feet of snow last week in Brooklyn, Dear Reader, and it’s gotten me thinking about whiteness. I mean, I’ve been thinking about whiteness for some time, but it’s a very...
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Birmingham 1963 performing at Downtown Art 2/19 – 2/27
BIRMINGHAM 1963 is the story of the struggle for civil rights based on oral histories and interviews of those who were there. Performed by an ensemble of young women, ages 14-17, BIRMINGHAM 1963...
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