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William Foster: Bringing Nonprofits to Scale

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Partner:: UpStart Bay Area
Location:: The Foundation Center
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.18.11
Speaker:: William Foster
Tags:: nonprofit

Summary: This program features William Foster, Bridgespan Group Senior Partner and incoming Executive Director of the Jacobson Family Foundation.

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William Foster

William Foster is a partner in the Boston office of Bridgespan, a consultancy that brings leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and foundations. He works with direct service organizations and philanthropic foundations on expansion strategy, reorganization efforts, and advocacy initiatives. His clients have been education reform, youth services, community health, and aging-related organizations, including major national affiliate-based networks.

Foster is also deeply involved in the firm's knowledge development, where much of his work focuses on issues related to funding and capital flows in the nonprofit sector. He is the co-author of the Harvard Business Review article, "Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?" and the recent Stanford Social Innovation Review article, "How Nonprofits Get Really Big."

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01 hr 28 min 47 sec

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01.: Introduction

06 min 45 sec

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02.: No Easy Secret to Successfully Scale Up

04 min 34 sec

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03.: Scaling Is More Important Than Ever

08 min 31 sec

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04.: What Makes Non-Profit Work Difficult

09 min 15 sec

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05.: Why Funding Is Hard

07 min 38 sec

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06.: Lessons for Nonprofits: Less Is More

03 min 43 sec

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07.: Take Strategy Seriously

03 min 46 sec

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08.: Create and Keep Standards

02 min 04 sec

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09.: Lessons for Donors: Be Grantee Oriented

01 min 38 sec

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10.: Less Is More for Funders, Too

00 min 46 sec

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11.: Patience

05 min 53 sec

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12.: How to Avoid Being Changed by Funders' Requirements

04 min 10 sec

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13.: Getting Donors Excited About Incremental Change

02 min 44 sec

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14.: Risk Aversion

05 min 23 sec

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15.: Dysfunctional Relationship Between Funders and Grantees

01 min 10 sec

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16.: Field Testing Before Scaling Up

02 min 11 sec

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17.: Growing Too Fast

03 min 02 sec

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18.: The Role of Boards

04 min 00 sec

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19.: Evaluation

03 min 42 sec

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20.: Increasing Influence without More Money

03 min 45 sec

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21.: Opportunities with Digital Tools

04 min 06 sec

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Nonprofit Work: Strong Passions Obstruct Good Strategy

02 min 48 sec

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Jacobson Family Foundation executive director William Foster explains the conundrum of lofty goals in nonprofit and philanthropic organizations being at odds with effective strategies that can be brought to scale.
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01 hr 28 min 47 sec

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