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LawForChange: Organizational Structure

There are many issues to consider when deciding which organizational structure is best for a given organization. No form is inherently better than another, and each has merits and drawbacks. This in depth chart compares various structuring options ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Using New Hybrid Legal Forms: Three Case Studies, Four Important Questions, and a Bunch of Analysis

With states such as California passing new laws to recognize flexible and social-purpose corporations such as the L3C and benefit corporation, social entrepreneurs are faced with greater flexibility and opportunity when it comes to choosing a legal ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2012)

Effective Social Enterprise - A Menu of Legal Structures

This article provides guidance to the social entrepreneur and attorneys about how to decide whether a new social enterprise should be structured within a tax-exempt or taxable legal entity, or whether a hybrid structure using both a taxable and an exempt ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2009)

Social Business – the missing piece of the social economy puzzle?

In this article, author Luke Fletcher suggests that efforts be made to create a new structural and legal designation for the "Social Business", a subset of social enterprise which Fletcher defines as a "sustainable business that operates for ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2012)

Innovations in Light

A fifth of the world's population lives without electricity. This article showcases a few simple ideas that are helping to bring light to them and others who can't afford it. ...

(caselet/profile, webpage, 2012)

LawForChange: Forms of Organization

This webpage includes state-by-state links providing detailed information on the state supported forms of organization for social-purpose ventures, as well as additional requirements related to incorporation, reporting, hiring and compensation processes ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

The L3C and Alternative Energy Funding

Financing remains a significant hurdle for the development of renewable energy (RE) projects in the United States, despite the existence of support policies at the state and federal level. ...

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

What It Means to Be a "B": B Corp v. Benefit Corporation

In recent years, as the terms "B Corp" and "benefit corporation" have been used more frequently, they have also mistakenly been used interchangeably. The confusion is in many ways understandable, as B Corp and benefit corporation sound ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2012)

In Search of the Hybrid Ideal

In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 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)

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)

Kheir Zaman: A New Player in Food Retail

This is a study of an Egyptian company which is contributing to the development of retail trade among low-income people. In the process of giving them better purchasing opportunities it is also developing the capabilities of informal suppliers to be ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE): Linking Small-Scale Farmers to National and Regional Markets

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) is a Kenyan micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) that provides a forum through which small-scale farmers can access mainstream markets for agricultural commodities. Kenya has three main commodity exchanges: ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Esoko Networks: Facilitating Agriculture Through Technology

Esoko Networks owns and operates Esoko, a technology-based market information system (MIS) classified as agricultural informatics or e-agriculture. Esoko provides agricultural stakeholders like farmers and traders with market information such as prices, ...

(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)

Lessons from the Last Mile: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 15

While the fact that the rural populations need to be reached, the question is how. Many companies have tried—and many have failed—at reaching the billions of rural villages throughout the world. In this issue we examine ways business is overcoming the last ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

The Other Tech Revolution: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 16

For most of modern history, technology has been the key differentiator between nations that prospered and the ones that didn't. Nations that innovated and became early adapters of scientific advances saw their economies grow, ensuring better services ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Guide to Starting up: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 17

In this issue we examine the most common problems that social entrepreneurs face at the start-up phase of their business. In our cover story, Nisha Kumar Kulkarni uses global examples to examine some of the most common challenges to social impact start-ups ...

(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)