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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)

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)

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)

Fictional Social Enterprise Business Plan: Rice Bowl

This business plan outlines a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connecting them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 2012)

Fictional Social Enterprise Financials: Rice Bowl

This excel sheet outlines the startup financials for a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connecting them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2012)

Fictional Social Enterprise Pitch Deck: Rice Bowl

This slide deck outlines a pitch for a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connects them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, presentation, 2012)

Solimar International's Sustainable Tourism Toolkit Sampler

Solimar International's "Sustainable Tourism Toolkit" helps local entrepreneurs – particularly in developing countries - understand and complete the steps of growing small and medium-sized tourism enterprises that not only generate jobs and ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 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)

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)

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 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)

Pro Forma Income Statement: Blended Value Feasibility Study

The Pro Forma Income Statement is a summary listing of the revenue and expenses generated by a social enterprise activity. (In the planning stage, financial statements are called ‘Pro Forma,’ which means they show what is expected.) This document can also ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2012)

Pro Forma Income Statement: Blended Value Business Plan

The Pro Forma Income Statement is a summary listing of the revenue and expenses generated by a social enterprise activity. (In the planning stage, financial statements are called ‘Pro Forma,’ which means they show what is expected.) This Income Statement ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2012)

A legal checklist for employee-owned public service start-ups

When you're setting up an employee owned entity to take over public service delivery, there are a number of legal considerations. This non-exhaustive checklist gives a sense of the key points to consider, and can be useful for social entrepreneurs ...

(tips/guidelines, 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)

Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish

Too often we engage in linear, simplistic solutions, when lasting change requires collaborative efforts. In this article on Stanford Social Innovation Review's blog, Rich Tafel discusses the need to look for solutions to social problems that target ...

(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)

In The SocEnt Classroom: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 9

This 9th Issue of Beyond Profit Magazine talks about the pedagogy of social entrepreneurship. ...

(essay/opinion, 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)