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
- 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 11
- 3 min
Q30, Q31, Q32, & Q33: Fundraising and Nonprofit Intellectual Property
Today’s survey data is all about whether nonprofits leverage their intellectual property assets to secure investments, like grants or...
Michelle Walker
- Feb 7
- 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
- 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
- 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 23
- 3 min
Q18, Q19, Q20 & Q21: Permissions Granted to Licensees
The nine organizations that license their intellectual property to other organizations were then asked a series of questions about...
Michelle Walker
- Jan 17
- 3 min
Q15, Q16 & Q17: Licensing IP to Others
One of the ways intellectual property assets create value is in the ability to license the right to use the intellectual property to...
Michelle Walker
- Jan 11
- 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
- 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
- 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 25, 2021
- 4 min
Q2: Is the Intellectual Property Registered?
The next question I asked the respondents was whether the organization had officially registered their copyright with the U.S. Copyright...
Michelle Walker
- Aug 23, 2021
- 3 min
Q1: What Intellectual Property Does the Organization Have?
I sent the survey to 107 people at the organizations curated on the theS&I 100 list, which was a list of vetted social entrepreneurs and...
Michelle Walker
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
3 Different Missions: 1 Thing in Common
How could I have worked for three organizations that made strategic use of their IP and no one researching the sector even mentions it?...