Social Enterprise
Unlocking Profit Potential: Your Organization's Guide to Entrepreneurship
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Discover how to take a proactive approach to generating revenue through social entrepreneurship -- conducting profitable enterprises to support the organization's ability to fulfill its mission. Learn about the concepts of social entrepreneurship, available options, key issues, the role of board members, and guidelines for determining the best business venture for the organization. Help your organization meet the growing demands of the nonprofit sector without relying solely on donations from foundations, individuals, and the government. |
Shared Services: A Guide To Creating Collaborative Solutions For Nonprofits
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Based on the best practices of professionals across the nonprofit and philanthropic world, the 84-page guide helps nonprofits build successful shared services programs and achieve greater financial stability. The first publication for nonprofit executives looking to create shared services programs, This guide is filled with step-by-step guidelines, 10 case studies of organizations who are successfully sharing services, planning tools, sample documents, and more. |
Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know
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In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. The book will give readers an understanding of what differentiates social entrepreneurship from standard business ventures and how it differs from traditional grant-based non-profit work. Most importantly, the book shows readers exactly how they can get involved. |
Measuring Social Value: Can Subjectivity Guide Real Decisions?
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Funders, nonprofit executives, and policymakers are very enthusiastic about measuring social value. Alas, they cannot agree on what it is, let alone how to assess it. Their main obstacle is assuming that social value is objective, fixed, and stable. When people approach social value as subjective, malleable, and variable, they create better metrics to capture it. Anyone who wants to finance social goods and anyone who wants to provide them should use metrics to clarify how inputs can contribute to outcomes, as well as to clarify choices and trade-offs. |
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
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Published in over twenty countries, How to Change the World has become the Bible for social entrepreneurship. It profiles men and women from around the world who have found innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether they work to deliver solar energy to Brazilian villagers, or improve access to college in the United States, social entrepreneurs offer pioneering solutions that change lives. |
Sustainable Communities for All Ages: A Viable Futures Toolkit
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The Viable Futures Toolkit is a comprehensive, user-friendly resource that turns the challenges of an aging population into opportunities for all ages to thrive. It offers guidance to planners, policymakers, service providers, and funders about how to create solutions for older generations that simultaneously address needs of younger generations and their communities. |
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