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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)

Tip Sheet: Scaling your NGO/Social Enterprise

Non-profit organizations in general and social enterprises in particular seek new methods to reach scale. To do so, they need to leverage networks, secure financing and access new markets. This tip sheet by U.S. consulting firm Social Enterprises ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 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)

A Boost for the World’s Poorest Schools

The goal of putting millions more children in school in the world's poorest places has been a huge success. The next task is making sure they learn. This articles highlights the work of Literacy Boost, a program from Save the Children that is now in ...

(caselet/profile, webpage, 2012)

Mechanics of a Nonprofit Merger

More and more nonprofits are considering merging or consolidating as a strategy to survive or even grow as government and private sources of funding shrink. There are special challenges for nonprofits considering a merger. While commercial mergers are ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2012)

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)

Scaling Social Enterprise

Presentation about scaling social impact: what it is, how to do it, and the strategies and challenges that may arise. Reviews examples of enterprises - and provides comparisons. Recognize opportunities for scaling, understanding the value chain, and ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2007)

Growing Social Enterprise: Research into Social Replication

This report attempts to answer the question: how can social enterprises successfully replicate their organisations? It examines the various replication journeys open to social enterprises. By exploring real-life examples of replication, it seeks to shed ...

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

Best Bits - Breaking into Private Sector Supply Chains: A Round-up of Advice and Experience Provided by Our Expert Panel

Alastair Cameron, CEO, Claverhouse Group: It's all about delivery: More than anything they [private companies] want to see that you can deliver what is promised, and there can be a fair degree of scepticism that a SE can deliver - not justified but ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Q&A Best Bits - How to Set up a Social Franchise: A Roundup of Our Panel's Expert Advice and Analysis on Social Franchising

Nick Temple: Social franchising is one of many options: Social franchising might be one option for scaling or replicating proven models which might suit social enterprise well. It's not a panacea by any means, and it depends on the particular ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Ayllu Initiative-India Map: Social Enterprise Constraints to Scale Up

Presented from the perspective of enterprises, this interactive research explores the constraints (both financial and non-financial) faced by social enterprises in India as they work to establish their models and scale their operations and impact. The site ...

(research/study, online tool, 2011)

Selling up without selling out

Ben and Jerry's ice cream sold to Unilever and Seeds of Change sold to Mars in the US. Closer to home, The Body Shop sold to L'Oreal and Green & Blacks sold to Cadburys. The sales of these businesses have certainly generated rich financial ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Ayllu and CSTS Energy Map: Clean Energy for the Underserved

One quarter of the world's population (1.5 billion) doesn't have grid electricity and approximately half (3 billion) cooks with polluting, unhealthy traditional stoves. Around the world, social entrepreneurs are pioneering methods to bring ...

(research/study, online tool, 2011)

Long Term Growth and Replication (Stage 7: HEFCE / UnLtd Social Entrepreneurship Awards Toolkit)

The final stage in the HEFCE / UnLtd Social Entrepreneurship Awards Toolkit looks at implications of long term growth and replication, including: Extending and replicating your social model Social Return on Investment (SROI) Replication and ...

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

Funding and Financing (Theme 10: HEFCE / UnLtd Social Entrepreneurship Awards Toolkit)

Theme 10 of the HEFCE / UnLtd Social Entrepreneurship Awards Toolkit discusses funding and financing of the various stages of the social enterprise life cycle. Topics include: Securing start up funding Stakeholder engagement and building ...

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

Spin Out and Deliver: Lessons from the Front Line of Public Service Reform

In October 2010, Social Enterprise London, working in partnership with London Councils and Capital Ambition, published Transitions , the first comprehensive guide to establishing a social enterprise out of the public sector. ...

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

Scaling Capacities: Supports for Growing Impact (Lessons in building organizational capacity to support scaling among social entrepreneurs)

This paper presents findings from original case study research that identified seven organizational capacities critical to the scaling process of social entrepreneurs. The purpose of scaling is to increase impact; by identifying capacities that support ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2006)

Going to Scale

What makes replicating social ideas so complicated, and how can the key issues be addressed? This article discusses scaling strategies and the specific challenges of expanding social programs for nonprofits. ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2003)

Scaling Impact: How to get 100x the results with 2x the organization

Because this way of thinking about growth is quite new, social entrepreneurs are still figuring out the best ways to scale impact. But pioneers have identified some tools and strategies that expand the impact of organizations well beyond what their size ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2010)

Challenges to Scale: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 4

This issue of Beyond Profit Magazine looks at different ways to and challenges of scale. Profiles in Transition: Enterprise Case Studies Behind the Veil: Value Chain Development in Pakistan Masuta: A Producer Company Model in India Interview: Grant ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2010)