Survivor
Subtitle: the brave new world of ePhilanthropy
By: James E. Austin
Contributors: Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Social enterprise series -- no. 23; Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 02-066; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- no. 23; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 02-066
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Description: The Internet is revolutionizing the philanthropic world. A revolution entails significant, structural, and irreversible change. Since the late 1990s over 300 new Internet enterprises were born focused exclusively on generating donations, mobilizing volunteers, supplying information, and providing technical services to nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit sector was seen as an untapped frontier, and a new Internet industry was created, populated mostly with dot coms but also dot orgs. The euphoria of the explosive birth has now given way to the cold realities of the shakeout stage. Revolutions cause fatalities and cast forth the challenge of how to survive.