Funding the Mission: Why Fundraising Isn't a Funding Strategy

William Landes Foster, Partner, The Bridgespan Group

Foster will address some widely held misconceptions about successful nonprofit funding strategies, including that diversification of funding sources guarantees sustainability or that the government is a poor source of funding. Working from new research conducted by The Bridgespan Group and published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Foster will discuss three parameters that can help board members and executive directors define nonprofit funding models — the source of funds, the types of decision makers, and motivations of decision makers.

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