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March Newsletter: Empty Abundance

By Tim McCarthy

February 28, 2013

After twenty years of thinking about it, I’m finally writing my first book. And this time, I’m serious. I’ve secured a professional coach/editor and outlined the strategy and even the...
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The Advantage
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The Advantage

By Patrick Lencioni

February 28, 2013

Editor’s comment: The soft side of business is the most difficult for most people, including me. And yet, the two most successful companies I’ve been involved in demonstrated exactly what...
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Case History: Habitat Builds Out Its Vision

By Tim McCarthy

February 28, 2013

Editor’s note: The most interesting part of this article, also from SSIR’s 10th anniversary issue, is that a non-profit as huge as Habitat for Humanity is doing something new while...
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Article of the Month: Standing with the Poor

By Tim McCarthy

February 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: If you notice, all of this month’s reference material comes from the 10th anniversary issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (www.ssireview.org) from whom I have learned a...
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January Case History: “Big Society Capital Marks a Paradigm Shift” by Ronald Cohen

By Tim McCarthy

January 3, 2013

Editor’s Note: The founding chair of Big Society Capital explains how the UK’s social investment bank will harness entrepreneurship and capital to solve societal problems. Case Study:
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January Article: “Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success” by Jason DeParle

By Tim McCarthy

January 3, 2013

Editor’s Note: The story of three friends from Galveston, Texas, seems less a tribute to upward mobility than a study of obstacles in an age of economic inequality. Each showed...
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December Blog “Personal Empowerment” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2012

John Wooden, the legendary coach of UCLA basketball, told his players on the first day of practice each year: “you can either discipline yourself, or someone else will.” This thought...
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December Case History: SoMoLend Wins Finovate’s “Best of Show” Award

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2012

Editor’s Note: In the video below you will see Candace Klein, founder and CEO of both Bad Girl Ventures and SoMoLend, make the winning pitch for SoMoLend at Finovate, a...
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December Article: “Charity’s Role in America, and Its Limits” by Eduardo Porter

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2012

Editor’s Note: A sobering fact from the article I wanted to highlight: “A small portion of philanthropic efforts are aimed at helping those who most need it. A study by...
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December Quote: Charles Lubbock

November 29, 2012

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." Charles Lubbock
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I Wish You Love
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I Wish You Love

By Charles Trenet, Alan Fernie, Cory Band

November 29, 2012

Editor’s Note: Probably one of the most oft-covered songs in history, this was originally a French ballad, by the same name, written in 1942. This version is my favorite, covered...
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October Blog: “Finding a Need” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 1, 2012

After forty years of work, I have developed one primary talent: Marketing. From Marketing 101 in college through my jobs in politics, advertising and entrepreneurship I’ve learned that the first...
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September Quote: John E. Jones

September 5, 2012

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated." John E. Jones
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Night

By Elie Wiesel

September 5, 2012

Editor’s Note: It’s hard to be reminded of the Holocaust, especially when I think I was born only seven years after it ended. It’s not like so many things–ancient history....
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August Newsletter “Are We There Yet?” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

August 2, 2012

I’ve written before about my favorite leadership book “On Becoming a Leader” by John Bennis because his primary point in the book is that we are always “becoming” leaders. The...
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August Case History: “Curbing Mission Creep” By Kim Jonker & William F. Meehan III

By Tim McCarthy

August 2, 2012

Editor’s Note: Our foundation continuously seeks to narrow its focus, keeping a constant diligence to avoid the natural tendency towards “mission creep.” This case study demonstrates the benefit of being...
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August Article: “Should We Consider a PRI?” by Christa Velasquez and Francie Brody

By Tim McCarthy

August 2, 2012

Editor’s Note: I recently began researching PRIs, or Program Related Investments, to gain an understanding of how they create leverage and whether it makes sense for our foundation in some...
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August Quote: Steve Jobs

August 2, 2012

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple....
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The Non Nonprofit

By Steve Rothschild

August 2, 2012

Editor’s Note: Steve Rothschild, former executive vice president of General Mills and founder of Twin Cities RISE!, a nonprofit that works to advance anti-poverty programs, offers a useful case study...
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July Newsletter: “Like Marriage, Business Takes Work” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

July 1, 2012

My experience says there are several reasons that business partnerships are like marriages: 1.  When you stop talking, the partnership dies – even if it appears to be alive Some...
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July Case History:

By Tim McCarthy

July 1, 2012

Editor’s Note: Our foundation supported development of two functional CDFIs in Cleveland over the last two years. We have also recently been approved to formalize our microenterprise work in our...
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