Vincent Cassar

Webaholic & Social Entrepreuneur 
« Back to blog

Excellent post about Kiva and the profit aspect of nonprofits

Here's an excellent post by Bethany Coates & Garth Saloner  from the Stanford Social Innovation School of Business on the profit aspect of nonprofits and Kiva as a case study. Good read!

Kiva, the first online peer-to-peer microcredit marketplace, is one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in history. But its nonprofit status was not inevitable. Here’s why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.

Read more >> http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_profit_in_nonprofit/

Loading mentions Retweet

Comments (0)

Leave a comment...

 
To leave a comment on this posterous, please login by clicking one of the following.
Posterous-login     twitter