Michael Barnes
Michael Barnes is founder and CEO of Awakened Innovations, Inc. Awakened Innovations helps nonprofits to save time and money by connecting them with high-quality, vetted, service providers. Previously, Michael has been a business coach; Director of Lab Operations at, Assurex Health (a genetic testing laboratory); and built the Cincinnati Biobank and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Michael’s overarching passion is to help others succeed and fulfill their mission in life.
Currently, there are about 1.5 million 501c3 organizations in the United States with thousands more being created all the time. There are 8,000-20,000 in the Cincinnati, OH area alone.
These nonprofits are started by people with a passion for a...
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Outcomes
So, I’ve talked about the fact that nonprofits need to innovate and then talked a little about what innovation is. What would be the outcome from innovation in the nonprofit, or for-purpose space?
EDITOR’S NOTE: SEE PART 2 BELOW⤵︎
https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/a-roadmap-to-solving-todays-biggest-challenges-part-2/
One first...
In my last piece, I made the point that nonprofits need to innovate to find better solutions for the problems they are addressing.
EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE PART 1 BELOW ⤵︎
https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/a-roadmap-to-solving-todays-biggest-challenges-part-1/
So, what does innovation really mean?
I told a friend the other...
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