Walker Philanthropic Consulting

Walker Philanthropic Consulting We help you integrate all of your organizational assets--personnel, intellectual property, and commu

I used to think that and were synonyms. More importantly, now that I know better I have an appreciation for how both...
03/10/2022

I used to think that and were synonyms.

More importantly, now that I know better I have an appreciation for how both frameworks can be applied to .

I wouldn't have gotten there without a commitment to questions others said were unimportant. Curiosity is important. It's the only way we and .

I really had no idea what reading about open innovation might be about, other than I thought it was loosely connected to the ideas of open source.

Today we're digging a little deeper to figure out what philosophy and ethics can teach us about and in to solve so...
03/04/2022

Today we're digging a little deeper to figure out what philosophy and ethics can teach us about and in to solve social challenges.

A philosopher, a legal scholar, an economist, and a computer scientist walk into a bar…

Lean into your . You never know what you'll learn. IBM and Microsoft are nothing like organizations, but learning abo...
02/23/2022

Lean into your . You never know what you'll learn. IBM and Microsoft are nothing like organizations, but learning about their were critical in forming questions that led to my groundbreaking survey on assets in nonprofits.

A firm's intellectual property assets are part of an ecosystem. That ecosystem can be competitive, collaborative, or open. Or, all three at the same time.

When I was still thinking about the niche Walker Philanthropic Consulting would find in the consulting landscape, I wa...
02/11/2022

When I was still thinking about the niche Walker Philanthropic Consulting would find in the consulting landscape, I was researching in .

Encountering the engine of transfer in made it clear that some sub-sectors in the nonprofit sector were already well aware of and optimized for management, if not strategy.

Institutions of higher education, particularly larger schools, have staff, policies, strategy, and resources specifically for the development, management, and transfer of innovation from the researcher(s) to industry.

Before I started my consulting practice, a professor challenged me to understand the difference between (of anything) ...
02/03/2022

Before I started my consulting practice, a professor challenged me to understand the difference between (of anything) and .

One of the characteristics is that entrepreneurs are associated with innovation in a way that other founders are not due to the perceived or of their ideas.

In industry an entrepreneur is someone who innovates.

What have inspired your ? Who told you your were silly? Who told you your were worth pursuing? I've had a lot of ...
02/01/2022

What have inspired your ? Who told you your were silly? Who told you your were worth pursuing? I've had a lot of detractors AND supporters as a curious person. But, I choose to remember the supporters and their belief that is and necessary.

If intellectual property is one output of innovation in industry maybe there were some hints in that literature.

We rarely talk about in . I found myself on a mission to figure out if my experience was just or if there was tha...
01/27/2022

We rarely talk about in .

I found myself on a mission to figure out if my experience was just or if there was that could inform .

How could I have worked for three organizations that made strategic use of their IP and no one researching the sector even mentions it?

There are no dumb questions. Some can even begin to unlock new knowledge.
01/19/2022

There are no dumb questions. Some can even begin to unlock new knowledge.

At least that’s what my parents tell me. It’d be a surprise to no one that knows me that I can keep on something until I’ve satisfied my curiosity.

Not every nonprofit consultant is a generalist. Walker Philanthropic Consulting considers nonprofit organizations to be ...
01/12/2022

Not every nonprofit consultant is a generalist. Walker Philanthropic Consulting considers nonprofit organizations to be knowledge-based organizations that create an enormous amount of intellectual capital and intellectual property in the work of achieving their missions. This is where that focused specialization began.

The beginning to how I started asking questions about intellectual property in the nonprofit sector.

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10/02/2020

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You can browse courses and sign up for a remote class at levelup412.org by October 15th!

I wrote this blog post and then today this news article on one dissolving nonprofit deciding to gift it's intellectual p...
08/03/2020

I wrote this blog post and then today this news article on one dissolving nonprofit deciding to gift it's intellectual property to aligned nonprofit in their community.

https://grbj.com/news/nonprofits/dissolving-antiracism-nonprofit-grants-assets-to-wmcat/

My experience with nonprofit clients has been that most of them did the hard work of building up rainy day funds for the next downturn. But, those recommendations for rainy day funds were not benchmarked against the impact of a global pandemic that would stretch nonprofits in multiple ways...

There is no shortage of articles and opinions circling about that nonprofits are going to take a harder hit than they di...
07/28/2020

There is no shortage of articles and opinions circling about that nonprofits are going to take a harder hit than they did in the aftermath of 2008's financial collapse. My experience with nonprofit clients has been that most of them did the hard work of building up rainy day funds for the next downturn. But, those recommendations for rainy day funds were not benchmarked against the impact of a global pandemic that would stretch nonprofits in multiple ways.

My experience with nonprofit clients has been that most of them did the hard work of building up rainy day funds for the next downturn. But, those recommendations for rainy day funds were not benchmarked against the impact of a global pandemic that would stretch nonprofits in multiple ways...

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