Companies to the Rescue
Companies to the Rescue The CEP Blog This is the fifth in a series of six blog posts. In my last several posts, I have described what I regard as worrisome trends: the way many (inside and outside the nonprofit sector) push for a "blurring of boundaries" between sectors, disparage the term "nonprofit," and equate "business thinking" with "effectiveness." But, many go further still, arguing – or at least strongly implying – not just that nonprofits could benefit from an infusion of "business thinking" but that, in fact, nonprofits are increasingly irrelevant because it is companies that will solve our most vexing social problems. To this growing chorus, the private sector is now where the action is. Forbes asks in an apparently serious headline in its November 30, 2011 issue that might as well come from The Onion , "Can Venture Capital Save the World?" Leslie R. Crutchfield, John V. Kan...