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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)

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)

Give To Get Jobs: Social Enterprise Job Board and Directory

Give To Get Jobs is a job board and information hub for jobs that use a sustainable business model to solve a social and/or environmental issue, mainly social enterprise and CSR. As a social enterprise itself, a portion of the proceeds from each job ...

(directory/catalog, 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 B Impact Assessment

The B Impact Assessment is a useful management tool to: To assess your company's impact on each of its stakeholders and Improve your social and environmental performance using our Tools and Best Practices embedded in the Survey. ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2012)

Social Enterprise Dining Map

This map presents ~300 social enterprise cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, ice cream stores, bakeries, and catering services in 10 countries around the world. Support social enterprise by eating at one! This map also works on mobile devices. ...

(directory/catalog, online tool, 2012)

2012 Homeless Counts Media Map

This map serves as a database of January 2012 point-in-time counts that have been reported in media reports or on Continuum of Care/government websites. Red markers indicate reports of increases and green markers indicate reports of decreases in ...

(tips/guidelines, online tool, 2012)

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)

Providers of finance: A database of potential providers of finance to social enterprises in South Africa.

Part of the Guide to Finance for Social Enterprises in South Africa , published by the International Labour Organisation and researched, compiled and written by GreaterCapital. ...

(directory/catalog, online tool, 2011)

Impact Reporting and Investment Standards

Impact Reporting & Investment Standards, or IRIS, is a common language for describing the social and environmental performance of an organization. IRIS provides an independent and credible set of metrics for organizations to use when reporting their ...

(directory/catalog, online tool, 2011)

New Media Toolkit

This curated collection of online tools, tutorials and resources is designed to help nonprofits and ethnic and community news organizations navigate the often intimidating and ever-evolving new media landscape. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, you ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 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)

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)

Non-Profit Technical Assistance Directory

The Non-profit Technical Assistance Directory catalogs consultants and organizations that offer expertise to non-profit organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania as well as in West Virginia, Ohio, and other geographical areas. Available in an online ...

(directory/catalog, online tool, 2011)

Entrepreneur's Toolkit: For Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit was launched to provide socially responsible businesses with a dynamic peer to peer information source. It contains information related to launching a social or environmental enterprise organized according to sector/topic and ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2011)

Social Enterprise Shopping Guide

This guide was created by the npEnterprise Forum for those who would prefer to make online purchases that create positive change in the world. It profiles approximately 40 ventures where purchases provide training and employment for disadvantaged ...

(directory/catalog, online tool, 2011)

LM3 Online: Calculate your organisation's economic contribution to its community

LM3 Online enables you to meet the primary challenge faced by the nonprofit sector: deliver more for less. Any not-for-profit organisation can use LM3 Online to show not only how important the money it already spends is to the local economy but also how ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool, 2002)

M4P Hub: Sharing knowledge on making markets work for the poor

M4P Hub is a knowledge and exchange forum for all those interested in making markets work better for the poor (M4P). This site is useful to both experienced professionals wanting to network or those new to the sector and looking for ideas and answers. It ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool)

Get Legal: The Decision Tool

Free to use, the decision tool asks you a number of questions about the structure and set up of your organisation, or the organisation you are advising, before signposting you either to a standard legal document (precedent) and explanatory notes, or to ...

(toolkit/manual, online tool)