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LawForChange: Start-Up Kit

This resource provides a list of issues and steps that social sector organizations should consider before launching a new venture, including how to: Determine the best organizational structure for your venture Incorporate your venture Choose a ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

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)

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)

Crowdfunding Your Social Enterprise?

This blog post and slide presentation address crowdfunding as a potential funding strategy for social enterprises. Includes a look at social enterprises who have successfully raised money from "crowds", lists several websites that facilitate ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2011)

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)

Merging Wisely

With the economy in turmoil, funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to merge. Yet mergers are not always the right path for nonprofits in financial distress. For a healthier nonprofit sector, funders should consider a wider variety of partnership ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2010)

Measurement and Evaluation in the Isreali Non-Profit Sector

This paper offers a concise, easy-to-read summary of key challenges related to measurement and evaluation. Although based on an analysis of the Isreali Non-Profit Sector, its findings are universal. A must ready for anybody engaging in a M&E effort. ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2010)

NPOs and Social Entrepreneurship in Russia: Prospects and Opportunities

The article presents the possible scenarios of collaboration between NPOs and social enterprises in Russia and their mutual prospective for positive social changes on the national level. ...

(essay/opinion, document (pdf), 2013)

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)

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)

AccountAbility Principles Standard 2008

The AA1000APS 2008 provides an organisation with an internationally accepted set of principles to frame and structure the way in which they understand, govern, administer, implement, evaluate and communicate their accountability. It is primarily intended ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2008)

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)

The Hidden Costs of Cause Marketing

From pink ribbons to Product Red, cause marketing adroitly serves two masters, earning profits for corporations while raising funds for charities. Yet the short-term benefits of cause marketing—also known as consumption philanthropy—belie its long-term ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2009)

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)

The What and Why of Social Enterpise: The Canadian Social Enterprise Guide 2nd Edition- Chapter 1

This first chapter from The Canadian Social Enterprise Guide 2nd Edition describes: the growth of social enterprise in Canada; how social enterprise is contributing to healthy and sustainable communities; our definition of “social ...

(research/study, text, 2010)

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)

South Africa: The Play Pump (Turning water into child's play)

In rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2005)