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

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights Industree Craft’s many notable strengths, while also illustrating potential implications of Industree’s hybrid structure and its impending scale-up process, the challenges that lie ...

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

Social Enterprise and International Development Webinar: New Opportunities, Emerging Trends, and the Right Tools for the Job

In this webinar sponsored by USAID's Knowledge-Driven International Development program and seToolbelt, participants learn about the role of social enterprise in international development, look at ways in which social enterprise currently plays in the ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2012)

Applying Social Enterprise Methodology to International Development: Third in the Social Enterprise in International Development Paper Series

This final paper of the Social Enterprise in International Development Paper Series endeavors to overlay current development systems and practices with an evolving methodology for developing high performance social enterprises. The Four Lenses Strategic ...

(essay/opinion, document (pdf), 2012)

Using Low-cost Video for Agricultural Development Webinar: Recording and Presentation

This webinar provided participants with an overview of some of the ways that low-cost video is currently being used with farmers to enhance the impact of agricultural development projects. It included experiences from two organizations already effectively ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2012)

Ending Chronic Homelessness: Market Research by Root Cause

This page provides statistics, research, and data related to the issue of chronic homelessness compiled by Root Cause. It includes a social issue report, state-by-state statistics, a list of organizations working to combat chronic homelessness, and links ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Populations Experiencing Homelessness: Diverse barriers to employment and how to address them

People experience homelessness for many reasons including financial insecurity, a lack of affordable housing, and difficulty accessing services such as medical care. The risk for homelessness is especially high among certain groups including low-income ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2012)

Youth Career Development: Market Research by Root Cause

Youth career development is a subfield of workforce development. It serves disengaged youth—young people aged 14-24, who are not actively engaged in education, training, or the workforce. The goal is to help these youth return to school, enroll in ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

National Alliance to End Homelessness: About Homelessness

Homelessness is a complex problem, fraught with many associated challenges and variables. But for all of its complications, the solution to homelessness is surprisingly simple – housing. This section of the National Alliance to End Homelessness website ...

(research/study, webpage, 2012)

2012 Homeless Counts Media Map

This map serves as a database of January 2012 point-in-time counts that have been reported in media reports or on Continuum of Care/government websites. Red markers indicate reports of increases and green markers indicate reports of decreases in ...

(tips/guidelines, online tool, 2012)

Drishtree: Sustainable Communities

This is a caselet about Drishtee, a social enterprise that works with poor rural communities in India. Drishtee, usually works through entrepreneurs, and has been creating for communities and its entrepreneurs sustainable business models that create ...

(caselet/profile, document (pdf), 2011)

Pot-in-pot Enterprise: Fridge for the Poor

Mobah Rural Horizons, producer of the pot-in-pot products which is widely termed as the ‘fridge for the poor’ is based in Kano, Nigeria. The region lies in the desert scrubland and is inhabited mainly by poor subsistence farmers living under the influence ...

(case/model, 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)

Urbanscape New Challenges Newer Solutions: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 18

In this issue of Beyond Profit we look at some key challenges that cities and their residents face, and potential solutions. In her cover story, Nisha Kumar Kulkarni addresses the problem of food security and the relatively new model of urban agriculture. ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Social Enterprise Primer for Development Professionals: First in the Social Enterprise in International Development Paper Series

For the past few decades, economic development actors of all varieties have employed market-based approaches—engaged markets using commercial methods—as a means to reduce poverty in developing countries. Inspired in part by the success of microfinance as ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

New Sources of Capital & Alternative Paths to Sustainability

This conference workshop, provided by Social Enterprise Associates, discusses pathways to accessing new sources of capital, increasing organizational financial self-sufficiency, and achieving greater sustainability. ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2011)

Current International Development Approaches and Social Enterprise Strategies for Poverty Alleviation: Second in the Social Enterprise in International Development Paper Series

Using the new international economic development emphasis on capitalizing on the power of markets to combat poverty this paper compares social enterprise to other similar poverty alleviation approaches for a better understanding of their relationship to ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2011)

Integrating Low-Cost Video into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners

This webpage includes PDF downloads of a complete toolkit and supplemental sections related to incorporating video strategies in agricultural development projects, as well as links to sample videos made by several of the organizations mentioned in the ...

(toolkit/manual, webpage, 2011)

Getting to the Root Cause of Homelessness

This article from Community Solutions examines the root causes of homelessness, provides suggestions on how this complicated social problem can be addressed at its root cause, and highlights the successes of a community project that has taken a root cause ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Making Tractor Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

Aware of the unmet, increasing demand for farm mechanisation, PrOpCom (Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets) sought to redress the scarcity of tractors available for land preparation in Nigeria, and in so doing engage with the ...

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

Making Fertiliser Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

From 2008–2011 PrOpCom facilitated interventions aimed at improving the commercial marketing and distribution of fertiliser to the poor in Nigeria. When PrOpCom first contemplated whether or not to intervene in the fertiliser market, industry experts ...

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