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Is Diversification of Revenue Good for Nonprofit Financial Health?
There’s no substitute for understanding the ins and outs of an issue and then smartly applying them to your own situation.
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Diversification Reconsidered: The Risks and Rewards of Revenue Concentration
Peter Frumkin and Elizabeth Keating take another look at the wisdom of diversifying one’s revenue mix.
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How Nonprofits Get Really Big (2024 Update)
This pair of articles make the argument that if you are after sheer size, revenue concentration may be the way to go.
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Beyond Donations: Isomorphism and Revenue Mix in Nonprofit Startups
Fascinating work on “field isomorphism,” or why fields tend to use the funding streams their peers use as central sources.
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The Accumulation of Nonprofit Profits: A Dynamic Analysis
Many nonprofits seek secondary sources to add to unrestricted net assets and reserves even when the dollars don’t justify the effort.
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Nonprofit Revenue Strategy and Downside Risk: Applying Portfolio Theory and Extreme Value Theory
It is best to incorporate portfolio diversification that seeks a negative correlation between sources to avoid simultaneous losses.