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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)

Prospecting for Social Good: REDF’s Due Diligence Criteria for New Portfolio Organizations

REDF’s mission is to increase job opportunities for people who have been excluded from the workforce. To achieve this goal it invests in a portfolio of employment-based social enterprises that share our vision, have outstanding leadership and sufficient ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2012)

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)

The Five Dysfunctions of a Digital Team

The digital function is increasing in importance in nearly all institutions today, yet few are actually managing it in an effective way. While there is no one right way to manage digital, the way most institutions—whether corporate, government, or ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Four Models for Managing Digital at Your Organization

What’s the best way to manage digital at your organization? While no two organizations look the same, there are typically four models: informal, centralized, independent, and hybrid. This article reviews approaches for managing digital operations, and ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Why Teams Fail - And What To Do About It: by 30SecondMBA

Five business leaders offer 30 second video vignettes on why teams fail, what to do about it, and how to learn from it. ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2011)

The One Hour Meeting

Many people find themselves frequently frustrated by board and committee meetings that are either too long or accomplish too little. Nonprofit CEO and management consultant Marilyn Donnellan created "The One-Hour Meeting" to address those ...

(tips/guidelines, 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)

What Could Corporate America Possibly Teach the Social Sector About Org Culture?

This article offers first-hand experience to describe how social enterprises should take a lesson from the corporate HR handbook to improve their organizational culture. ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2010)

Hinduism and Microfinance

Understanding debt, interest rates and microfinance issues from a Hindu perspective. Religion is a major factor in microfinance, its delivery and how it is received by clients. This paper examines microfinance from a Hindu perspective, which has become ...

(research/study, text, 2010)

Building Social Capital through Microfinance

This paper provides experimental evidence on the economic returns to social interaction in the context of microfinance. Development assistance programs often promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Despite strong theoretical ...

(research/study, text, 2010)

No More Business as Usual: A Social Enterprise Manifesto

The Social Enterprise Coalition is calling for social enterprises to increase their contribution to the economy threefold by 2020. However, growing the sector requires an ambitious and consistent policy framework. This manifesto highlights six priority ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2010)

Q&A Best Bits: How to Start up an Employee-owned Social Enterprise (Public Sector Mutuals Need to be Armed with a Business Plan, Prepared for a Culture Change and Ready to Compete for and Win Contracts on Merit, according to Our Panel of Experts)

Julie Mcever: Julie is an associate at Local Partnerships - an organisation providing the public sector with commercial expertise. Julie is responsible for co-managing, alongside The Social Investment Business, the Department of Health's £100m Social ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2010)

MBAs Gone Wild: Nonprofits must reign in pro bono MBAs

According to author James W. Shepard, Jr., it has taken years in the nonprofit sector to appreciate the challenge of applying business best practices to that sector. In fact, MBAs can, without appropriate understanding of nonprofits, actually wreak havoc ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2008)

Internal Communication Toolkit

The aim of the toolkit is to help organisations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness through the creation of internal communication processes that create a cohesive organisational culture. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2007)

Ethics and Nonprofits

Unethical behavior remains a persistent problem in nonprofits and for-profits alike. To help organizations solve that problem, the authors examine the factors that influence moral conduct, the ethical issues that arise specifically in charitable ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2009)

Maximizing Returns to Colleges & Communities : A Handbook to Community Investment

Colleges and universities depend tremendously on their local communities in numerous ways, and through community investment, have a unique opportunity to support these communities in turn. This handbook provides an overview of community investment, ...

(toolkit/manual, document (pdf), 2009)

The Integrated Approach to Social Entrepreneurship: Building High Performance Organizations

This article discusses how an integrated approach to social enterprise offers practitioners a new paradigm for creating High Performance Organizations. A social enterprise is more likely to achieve sustained social value when the enterprise is integrated ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2009)

Micro-Lender ACLEDA Now Cambodia's Largest Bank

ACLEDA bank began as a micro-lender, loaning tiny sums to allow Cambodians to open small businesses. Now it's become the country's largest bank. Critics think it's lost its focus by becoming too big and charging too much interest. This ...

(caselet/profile, audio, 2009)