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 11, 2022
- 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, 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
- 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 23, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 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
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Q9 & Q10: Foundation Funding and IP Rights Retention
Image by: Andrea De Santis The next set of questions in the 2014 survey circled back to the ownership of the nonprofit’s intellectual...
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...
Michelle Walker
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
My First Sentence Was a Question
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...
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