A community resource center for social enterprise practitioners (formerly Venturesource)
seToolbelt is an open content community resource center for social entrepreneurs. Its content—over 1,000 free toolkits, cases, articles, videos, examples, manuals, interviews, podcasts, business plans, frameworks, and templates—comes from practice and spans regions, sectors, industries, and business functions.
A Brief Guide for Social Entrepreneurs and Development Practitioners
This paper explores the growing pool of money termed “social investment” that is tailored to enterprise-based approaches to social and environmental problems. Social investment can help organizations build capacity, test innovations, and achieve sustainability.
Toward an Integrated Social Enterprise Methodology
This paper aims to move beyond stories and definitions by presenting practitioners with a conceptual framework—as rudimentary as it may be in its first version—to inform and inspire new thinking about social enterprise performance and impart strategy and management resources to help practitioners achieve high performing social enterprises.
These case studies illustrate how specific social enterprises engage in activities across the four lenses and illuminate the synergies and tensions that arise when taking an entrepreneurial approach to addressing a social problem.
This typology breaks down the traditional boundaries between the nonprofit and private sectors and draws definition to this new institutional animal--part business-part social--the social enterprise.
A Business Planning Reference Guide for Social Enterprises
This manual is intended to equip social entrepreneurs with a business planning tool for their market-led social enterprises and help them improve their social enterprise program performance.
This article, published in the March 2006 issue of the Social Enterprise Reporter, discusses how an integrated approach to social enterprise offers practitioners a new paradigm for creating High Performance Organizations.
This article discusses "exit strategy", one of the most interesting and least understood pillars of the emerging practice of "venture philanthropy" or engaged grant making approach.
Through four in-depth case studies in Ukraine, this publication highlights the beneficial impact of social enterprises on the non-profit sector, families and communities.
This book offers a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. In Chapter 10, Kim Alter sets out an extensive typology of social enterprise organizational forms. Alter reminds us that the social enterprise model combines both social impact and financial value creation by adopting various business elements within the context of achieving a social mission.
This comprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofit organizations' dependence on traditional sources of funding. In Chapter 14, Kim Alter discusses tools and strategies to maintain the agility, flexibility and confidence required to implement a living document-the business plan-in a dynamic environment.
seToolbelt is an open content community resource center for social entrepreneurs. Its content—over 1,000 free toolkits, cases, articles, videos, examples, manuals, interviews, podcasts, business plans, frameworks, and templates—comes from practice and spans regions, sectors, industries, and business functions.
This paper explores the growing pool of money termed “social investment” that is tailored to enterprise-based approaches to social and environmental problems. Social investment can help organizations build capacity, test innovations, and achieve sustainability.
This paper aims to move beyond stories and definitions by presenting practitioners with a conceptual framework—as rudimentary as it may be in its first version—to inform and inspire new thinking about social enterprise performance and impart strategy and management resources to help practitioners achieve high performing social enterprises.
This typology breaks down the traditional boundaries between the nonprofit and private sectors and draws definition to this new institutional animal--part business-part social--the social enterprise.
This manual is intended to equip social entrepreneurs with a business planning tool for their market-led social enterprises and help them improve their social enterprise program performance.
This article, published in the March 2006 issue of the Social Enterprise Reporter, discusses how an integrated approach to social enterprise offers practitioners a new paradigm for creating High Performance Organizations.
This article discusses "exit strategy", one of the most interesting and least understood pillars of the emerging practice of "venture philanthropy" or engaged grant making approach.
Through four in-depth case studies in Ukraine, this publication highlights the beneficial impact of social enterprises on the non-profit sector, families and communities.
This book offers a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. In Chapter 10, Kim Alter sets out an extensive typology of social enterprise organizational forms. Alter reminds us that the social enterprise model combines both social impact and financial value creation by adopting various business elements within the context of achieving a social mission.
This comprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofit organizations' dependence on traditional sources of funding. In Chapter 14, Kim Alter discusses tools and strategies to maintain the agility, flexibility and confidence required to implement a living document-the business plan-in a dynamic environment.