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The Builder: Social Enterprise Business Planning Tool by Social Traders

The Social Enterprise Builder is a step-by-step guide on how to build a social enterprise. This guide is written for anyone wishing to understand more about social enterprise and how to start one. The Builder is an online, interactive tool that guides you ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2012)

Social Enterprise Explained: For beginners, wonderers and people with ideas, big and small

Lots of people are asking about social enterprise. Social Enterprise UK produced this guide for people who are just getting interested in social enterprise. It’s aimed at getting all the right information in one place for anyone who might want to start, ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2011)

Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. This process has been specially-adapted for social enterprises that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2009)

The Impact Investor's Handbook: Lessons from the World of Microfinance

The UK social investment market has now reached a critical juncture. Although there is some evidence of coordinated market-building efforts, the market remains fragile. By reviewing the development of the global microfinance industry, this handbook aims to ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2011)

Social Audit Toolkit

The Social Audit Toolkit is the original manual on Social Audit and Accounting and when it was first printed in 1981 it introduced the idea of organisational social audits for social enterprises and all social objective organisations. The Toolkit comes ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2008)

Startup And Change The World: Guide for Young Social Entrepreneurs

If you’re one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who have great ideas but are unable to turn them into action, consider this manual a rough guide on starting your own social enterprise. We have broadly outlined all the common strategies, tactics and ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2007)

Social Enterprise Marketing Toolkit: Marketing Resource for Social Enterprises

This Toolkit has been designed to help you understand the fundamentals of marketing, and to apply them in your social enterprise. It's divided into four modules, each of which is presented in a video. During each module, you'll be invited to ...

(toolkit/manual, video, 2010)

SME Toolkit: Build Your Business

The SME Toolkit provides a host of business resources to help small and medium sized enterprises (especially those in developing countries) to flourish. It includes free software, business forms, tools, and training designed for mainstream entrepreneurs. ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2012)

Corporate Governance of Social Enterprises

This manual offers social entrepreneurs an opportunity to evaluate the needs, focus and personality of their social enterprise with the goal of determining which systems, processes, mechanisms and structures of governance will help their organization to ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2012)

How To Start a Social Enterprise: Entrepreneur's Toolkit Wiki

The Entrepreneur's Toolkit Wiki is a site dedicated to collecting the knowledge of entrepreneurs from around the world who are launching businesses that reduce environmental impacts, create prosperity, and improve lives in their communities. This ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2012)

The B Impact Assessment

The B Impact Assessment is a useful management tool to: To assess your company's impact on each of its stakeholders and Improve your social and environmental performance using our Tools and Best Practices embedded in the Survey. ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2012)

Developing Your Social Enterprise Idea

Whether you are an established organization or just starting up, this page includes resources to help you develop your social enterprise ideas and strategies and ensure your organization’s viability. ...

(toolkit/manual, webpage, 2012)

Unlocking Profit Potential: Your Organization's Guide to Social Entrepreneurship

This eBook developed in conjunction with BoardSource, provides a guide for nonprofit boards and management to better understand social entrepreneurship and strategically assess earned income business ventures. Its 59 pages provide useful tips and tools ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2002)

Guide to Finance for Social Entreprises in South Africa

This guide is designed to take South African social entrepreneurs through the entire process of financing their business, starting with identifying their needs and ending with how to ensure that they are met in the cheapest and most sustainable way. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2011)

A guide to legal forms for social enterprises in South Africa

This guide explores the various options available to social enterprises in South Africa in terms of legal forms. It examines the laws applicable to the various entities as well as the legal requirements for establishing the relevant entities. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2011)

Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit : Business Skills for Social Enterprise

The Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit covers basic elements and information about planning and operating a social enterprise. Each module covers key principles and offers leads and links to further resources. We hope the worksheets assist you in your ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2011)

Question Box: Any Organization in the World Can Open a Hotline

Question Box is Open Mind's initiative that helps social enterprises start their own hotlines to help people find answers to everyday questions like health, agriculture, business, education and entertainment. It provides easy access to information in ...

(toolkit/manual, software, 2011)

Module 1 - Governance: Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit

The first in the Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit, this module covers governance, including the roles, planning, managing, implementing and measuring. Governance is 'steering' the whole! ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2011)

Module 2 - Leadership: Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit

The second in the Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit, this module looks at leadership. Leadership is not an elected or appointed position; it's a behaviour of engagement, motivation and team building. ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2011)

Module 3a - Financial Analysis: Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit

This module of the Social Enterprise Learning Toolkit provides an overview of financial analysis and provides essential tools for establishing budgets, understanding true cost analysis of income sources and expenses, and applying key business ratios within ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2011)