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SPEN's first report, Managing Through Challenges, [
PDF 520KB] profiles the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, California, and national nonprofit sectors and discusses critical management issues facing the sector.
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KQED-FM 88.5 (NPR),
All Things Considered (1:04 minutes, RealPlayer® format) Denise Gammal, managing director of the Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits, interviewed on role of non-profit groups in Bay Area economy.
Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits (SPEN): Objectives
SPEN will:
- Create new knowledge about the social sector that will inform nonprofit leaders, funders, and policy makers;
- Support curriculum development for use in teaching MBA and executive education courses; and
- Engage social sector leaders in meaningful discussion to share and expand the knowledge created by the project.
Professor Powell teaches a course on nonprofit organizations for both Stanford MBA and School of Education students in which students write papers on specific projects related to SPEN. As findings emerge, SPEN will convene seminars, focus groups, and conferences to share results and encourage discussion among sector stakeholders. The opportunity to share experiences and contribute to new knowledge provides an incentive for organizations to participate and serves the broader research and teaching mission of the Center for Social Innovation.
