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South Africa: The Play Pump (Turning water into child's play)

In rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2005)

Service Improvment Change Process: Preparation Checklist

This checklist was written to support a service-based organization in beginning the service improvement process. By first assessing the service systems for problems, barriers, or inefficiencies and by walking through the service provision process from the ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 2012)

Conducting a Walk-Through

This tip sheet provides details on how to conduct a "walk-through" of a service-related organization to assess the customer-facing services and processes provided by that organization. Typically conducted by a member of the management team, a ...

(tips/guidelines, document (doc/odt), 2012)

Logic Model Example: Substance Abuse Advisory Board

This logic model was created to communicate the purpose and function of a county-designated substance abuse advisory board in a small, rural county in Washington State. The process of designing this document and the final output (the logic model) helped ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 2012)

The Banyan: Performance Dashboard Framework

The Banyan is an innovative nonprofit operating in Channai, India to provide comprehensive care for people with mental illness. They created this dashboard framework to help them identify, track, and communicate indicators to demonstrate program ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2012)

APOPO Case Study: A Case Study in Social Enterprise Development using the Four Lenses Approach

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights APOPO’s many notable strengths, and illustrates potential implications of APOPO’s shift towards a social enterprise model, the challenges that lie ahead, and the lessons this case ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2009)

On the Ground with Comprehensive Community Initiatives

This publication summarizes the major programs of the 10 initiatives studied in the area of neighborhood revitalization. It discusses program issues including sources and amounts of funding as well as positive individual and neighborhood impacts. This ...

(case/model, text, 2000)

Focus on Africa: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 10

This 10th issue of Beyond Profit magazine focuses on social entrepreneurship in Africa, including case studies and strategies. ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Toward a Healthy World: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 13

Issue 13 of Beyond Profit E-Magazine addresses the following topics: 1) A social business model for accessible healthcare; 2) Innovative approaches addressing malaria; 3) Challenges to water delivery in rural India. ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Making Clean Water Profitable With The McDonald’s Model

If every village had its own local water entrepreneur, maybe they would do a better job providing clean water. That’s the model Sarvajal uses in India—franchising water purification equipment to create a network of successful clean water ...

(caselet/profile, text, 2011)

Case Studies: Local Food & Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives in the United States

This working paper compiles best practices from four communities and six local initiatives providing local and sustainable food, highlighting communities and organizations across the country that pursue innovative projects to increase sustainable and local ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

2007-2011 Strategic Plan - A Summary of PSI's Five-Year Plan

This example of PSI's five-year strategic plan summary should be used by other practitioners as a model for designing and developing their own strategic plan summaries. ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Clinical Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs, 2010

This second annual compendium of clinical social franchise programs is a testament to the rapidly growing and changing field of social franchising in developing countries. Forty franchises are profiled herein, ten of which are new additions to the ...

(directory/catalog, document (pdf), 2010)

Bridges Ventures reports

The case studies that follow in this report provide a detailed review of the social and/or environmental impact results achieved by the profiled companies, including quantitative and qualitative data on both the regeneration and sustainability impacts of ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

The Race Against Drug Resistance

In an increasingly interconnected world, drug resistance does not stop at a patient’s bedside—it threatens global health. It has slowed gains against the fatal ravages of childhood dysentery and pneumonia, drastically increased the costs of fighting ...

(research/study, text, 2010)

Toyola Charcoal Stove: Improving the Environment and Health of the Poor in Ghana

Toyola Energy Limited is a company that operates in Ghana. It produces and distributes energy efficient charcoal stoves and solar lanterns for domestic users in the urban and rural parts of Ghana. Toyola entrepreneurs Suraj Wahab and Ernest Kyei – two ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Providing Affordable Health Care to the Poor: Telemedicine in Belarus

Cardiovascular diseases are common among the population of Belarus. Belarus lacks quick cardiac diagnostic and treatment services in many remote areas outside of major cities. Telemedicine offers a solution to this problem by connecting a doctor in a local ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Social Return On Investment: A Case Study in Health

Presented at the 2011 Social Enterprise Alliance Summit, this presentation from Social Enterprise Associates and SVT Group provides an overview of SROI metrics and practice, and then details a case study on the Nemours SROI project and the use of impact ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2010)

Franchising Healthcare: Introduction to HealthStore

This 4-minute video caselet introduces the HealthStore model, a micro-franchise approach to delivering quality healthcare in developing countries lead by the HealthStore Foundation. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2010)

Assessing Microfinance for Water and Sanitation: Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Scaling Up

More than 2.4 million people die every year from diarrhea and other water-related illnesses because they don’t have safe, sustainable water and sanitation. This crisis persists, in part, because the financial services that could help vulnerable ...

(research/study, text, 2008)