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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)

The Four Lenses Strategic Framework: Toward an Integrated Social Enterprise Methodology

This paper aims to move beyond stories and definitions by presenting practitioners with a conceptual framework—as rudimentary as it may be in its first version—to inform and inspire new thinking about social enterprise performance and impart strategy and ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

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)

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. In doing so, the typology explores how institutions ...

(research/study, online tool, 2007)

AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard

The AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard provides a principles-based, open source framework for quality stakeholder engagement. It offers a robust basis for designing, implementing, evaluating and assuring the quality of stakeholder engagement, and is ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2011)

Empower through Education: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 12

Issue 12 of Beyond Profit E-Magazine addresses education-related topics, including 1) Affordable private education for the poor; 2) Barriers to education for girls; 3) From school dropout to supervisor ...

(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)

The GIIRS Potential: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 14

This coming July will mark the official launch of the Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS). As you will read in this issue, GIIRS is a project brought to life by the not-for-profit B Lab, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, ...

(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)

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)

Idobro Result Framework

Idobro promotes mainstream integration of women, social and green enterprises through Responsible business models, Inclusive policies, Sustainable partnerships and Ecofriendlyalternatives (RISE). A cross subsidy model, Idobro provides last mile market ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 2011)

Framing Up the Social Enterprise Decision: Permanent vs. Transitional Jobs Model

This thought piece conducted by Blue Garnet Associates for REDF frames up key questions related to permanent and transitional jobs models as they relate to employment social enterprises. It includes a list of pros and cons of each model, and frames ...

(research/study, presentation, 2011)

The Next Billions: Unleashing Business Potential in Untapped Markets

In 2008, the Forum initiated a new project to assess commercially viable business models that can improve livelihoods and strengthen food value chains in poor regions - and to define the actions needed to scale up such approaches. This project was ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2009)

The Partnering Toolbook

The Partnering Toolbook builds on the experience of those who have been at the forefront of innovative partnerships and offers a concise overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering that helps advance the goal of an organization. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2003)

Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes

A plethora of investments is emerging across multiple asset classes that provide investors with market-rate investments, or for more altruistic investors, substantial social impact, while still generating positive financial returns. The old binary system - ...

(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)

Buying Social: A Guide to Socially Responsible Public Procurement

In the context of the consultation process launched by the Commission communication on social services of general interest (SSGIs) of April 20061, the Commission received a number of questions concerning the application of the European Union rules on state ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2010)

HIV/AIDS Monitor: Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?

Linking funding decisions to performance can help the best programs continue and give program managers strong incentives to lead their programs well. Performance-based funding can also have unintended negative consequences, such as inducing single-minded ...

(research/study, text, 2010)