Michelle Walker
What is an Asset?
I had a lot of new questions after analyzing the survey data. I wouldn’t be able to answer them quickly, so I spent some time thinking...
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Michelle Walker
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
Foundations, Grantees, and Intellectual Property Rights
I was a fundraiser for 15 years. The implications of my survey’s findings on who funds, owns, and benefits from intellectual property...
Michelle Walker
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
Q28 & Q29: Nonprofit Staff and Board Recruitment
My pre-survey reading also highlighted the less obvious marketplace opportunity of recruiting and retaining people talent (Bingham and...
Michelle Walker
- Feb 3, 2022
- 2 min
Q26 & 27: Nonprofit Scaling and Growth
My pre-survey reading opened my mind to the number of ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
Michelle Walker
- Feb 1, 2022
- 1 min
Q24 & Q25: Developing Partnerships with Intellectual Property
My pre-survey reading enlightened me to the myriad ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
Michelle Walker
- Jan 28, 2022
- 3 min
Q22 & Q23: Nonprofit Earned Revenue
I was also curious to know if nonprofit organizations were using their intellectual property assets to generate revenues through their...
Michelle Walker
- Jan 11, 2022
- 1 min
Q13 & Q14: Who Makes Strategic IP Decisions
All of the nonprofits were asked who is authorized to make decisions regarding the use of organization’s Intellectual Property on behalf...
Michelle Walker
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
Q11 & Q12: Employee Creations and IP Ownership
Nonprofits were asked if employee of the organization hold the rights to any of the intellectual property in use by the organization....
Michelle Walker
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Q8: Enforcing IP Rights Through Legal Action
As I’ve written about previously, one facet to IP rights is the right to exclude others from using intellectual property that your...
Michelle Walker
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Q6 & Q7: Day-to-Day IP Management
The next two questions in the original survey focused on the day-to-day management responsibilities for intellectual property assets. An...
Michelle Walker
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
Q5: Who Suggested Written Policies
The next question asked the respondents to share who suggested the need for written policies. This question was a follow-up to the 10...
Michelle Walker
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
Q3 & Q4: Written IP Policies and What They Cover
I then asked respondents whether the organization has any written policies regarding the intellectual property assets. Written policies...
Michelle Walker
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
It’s Time to Get Rid of the Concept of Overhead in Nonprofit Organizations
The management framework that the nonprofit sector predominately uses, New Public Management, is a bad fit. What’s needed is a framework...
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