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Social Enterprise Typology

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.

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Managing the Double Bottom Line:

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.

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The Integrated Approach to Social Entrepreneurship:

Building High Performance Organizations

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.

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When is it Time to Say Goodbye?

Exit Strategies and Venture Philanthropy Funds.

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.

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Case Studies in Social Enterprise

Counterpart International's Experience.

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.

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Print Publications

Social Entrepreneurship

New Models of Sustainable Social Change

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.

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Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income

A Guide to Successful Enterprise Stategies

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.

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