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The New Year holiday has always been my favorite. I enjoy the self-reflection that resolutions invite even when I’ve fallen short…

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Happy New Year!

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Perspective, new points of view, and frameworks I’ve never encountered are some of the more exciting things about conferences for me. Today was no exception to that. Every paper panel was full of interesting approaches to research and bringing new perspective to what might seem, to some, well explored territory. Toby Egan presented a paper […]

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ISTR Day 1: Innovation Perspectives

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A nonprofit’s intellectual property assets require governance oversight and thoughtful management as part of the board’s fiduciary duty.

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Nonprofit Assets: Beyond the Balance Sheet

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I’m excited to have my first guest blog published! A paper I presented at ARNOVA last November got the attention of the folks at Drexel University LeBow College of Business. My hearty thanks to Dr. Patricia Harrison, Patricia Connolly, and Alyssa Abbott at The Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Center for featuring Assets Beyond the […]

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Guest Blog News

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WPC is please to announce that Governance Teams, Fiduciary Duty, and Intellectual Property, the paper presented at International Society for Third Sector Research 2018 conference has been accepted as a Working Paper. The paper underwent a peer review process and is available as part of the ISTR Working Papers XI series. All of the papers […]

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Accepted for Publication!

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Today was a mash-up of topics. However, at least one paper in each session I attended ended up touching on how the past, sometimes irrationally, sometimes inaccurately, informs our present decisions and impacts our future outcomes. Anyone who knew me in grad school knew that I was obsessed with the concept of perpetuity, dead hand, […]

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ISTR Day 3: How Past is Prelude

Today I was drawn to sessions that were more theoretical or adjacent to my own areas of interest and practice. The first session was a panel discussion on the creation of markets for public goods, or the marketization of the nonprofit sector. There were a lot of really great questions about what is a market […]

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ISTR Day 2: Connecting Ideas

I leave in 48 hours and the to-do list to prep and pack isn’t getting any smaller! However, I’m so excited for this opportunity to speak and learn from my peers at ISTR in Amsterdam that I can barely sit still! (The deadlines imposed by international travel may just be the key to consistent motivation […]

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Countdown to ISTR

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It’s been a busy few months and I’m back on the blog with some very exciting news! My forthcoming paper, Governance Teams, Fiduciary Duty, and Intellectual Property Management, has been accepted for presentation at ISTR‘s 2018 Conference in Amsterdam. It’s an honor, as a practitioner, to present alongside so many researchers and thought leaders that […]

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All Aboard for Amsterdam!

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On February 28, 2017, PayPal, Inc. and PayPal Giving Fund were named as defendants in a class action lawsuit. The main headline the lawsuit generated is that donors who made gifts to charities and nonprofits through the PayPal Giving Fund (PPGF) had their gifts re-directed to other organizations without their consent. The complaint contains much […]

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PayPal Giving Fund: Good Intentions Don’t Ensure Good Outcomes

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