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Where Nonprofits Discuss Earned Income

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About the npEnterprise Forum

In this forum, we discuss practical steps nonprofits can take to earn income from selling products and services.  

Common topics include:

  • The risks and rewards of earned income activities
  • How to assess whether your organization is "ready" to pursue earned income strategies
  • What are the options for generating earned income (e.g., in-house activities, for-profit subsidiaries, free-standing ventures, corporate partnerships, etc)
  • How to identify potential earned income opportunities suitable to your organization
  • How to do market and feasibility research to evaluate an earned income opportunity
  • How to prepare a strong business plan
  • How to secure funding for your opportunity
  • How to integrate business planning and earned income strategies into the daily management of your organization

The npEnterprise Forum is hosted on the Yahoo! Groups website, located at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/npEnterprise/

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The npEnterprise Forum discusses practical steps nonprofits can take to enhance their organizational capacity, mission impact, and financial sustainability, through the development of income-generating business activities. This list is owned and moderated by Rolfe Larson Associates (www.RolfeLarson.com). We reserve the right to select messages for distribution to the list, and to publish archived messages with proper attribution in other venues. More information about this listserv is available at www.npEnterprise.net, including how to subscribe and unsubscribe. The npEnterprise Forum has been designated by the Social Enterprise Alliance (www.se-alliance.org), a membership organization, as its official listserv. Permission to redistribute message(s) contained in this email is granted provided you include this paragraph.

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