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A Good POV | "A Starbucks Moment for Nonprofits?"

In April I wrote and raved about Robert Egger of the DC Central Kitchen, as a social entrepreneur with a vital point of view. Egger just dropped some knowledge and insight about this pivotal, transitional moment in the nonprofit trajectory:

This is where the company [Starbucks] made a brilliant set of decisions that created a model which, if modified, could offer the nonprofit sector a business example which might prove critical to its future economic growth and social vitality.
The full post is a thoughtful and fluid read, and highlights an enthusiastic and hopeful perspective on the opportunities of these turbulent times:
This could be a great moment for the nonprofit sector. If we can see this era of economic duress as an opportunity to attract new employees that can help us sell a new approach to creating a civil society, then this may be the year we finally move from selling the metaphoric empty calories of fast food, to a healthy, whole lifestyle where commerce and justice share equal seats at the table.
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