The Secret to Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference

Event

Over the past five years, Kathleen Kelly Janus has traveled the country visiting the founders, leadership teams, and funders of dozens social entrepreneurs, both newcomers and veterans in the field, including the leaders of Teach for America, City Year, DonorsChoose and charity:water.

Her new book, Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference, features her findings from that study, detailing best practices for testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collectively and storytelling with purpose.

Come learn from her in conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America and author of The Chessboard and the Web and Cecilia Munoz, Vice President at New America and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council about how nonprofits tackle the path to scale.

This event is invite only. Please email events@newamerica.org with your name, affiliation, and title to request an invitation. 

Copies of Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference will be available for purchase by credit card or check.  

Agenda:

5:00pm - 5:30 pm: Reception and book release
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Panel Discussion 

Anne-Marie Slaughter@SlaughterAM
President and CEO, New America

Cecilia Munoz​, @cecmunoz
Vice President or Policy and Technology and Director of New America's National Network, New America

Kathleen Kelly Janus, @kkellyjanus
Author, Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference
Lecturer, Stanford University 
Co-founder, Spark

6:30pm - 7:00pm: Book Signing with Kathleen Kelly Janus