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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)

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)

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)

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)

Social Entrepreneurship in Russia: Our Future Or Already Our Present?

Five years of promotion and support of social entrepreneurship in Russia – what are the lessons learned? Natalia Zvereva, the Director of the regional social programs fund Our Future tells about the first steps of social entrepreneurship development in ...

(caselet/profile, document (pdf), 2012)

Directory of Indian Service Providers to Social Enterprises

This directory profiles 16 service providers (consultancies, individuals, and other intermediaries) who specialize in providing technical assistance and support to social enterprises throughout India. A quick reference table at the back of the directory ...

(directory/catalog, document (pdf), 2012)

Dealing with Conflict

This tip sheet outlines five common ways of dealing with conflict in the workplace: avoidance, accommodation, compromise, competition, and collaboration. It outlines the pros and cons of each approach and the best situations to use different methods of ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2012)

Icebreaker Ideas for Facilitators

This list of activities and games can help teams get to know one another, feel more comfortable working together, or just provide a fun way to start off a meeting. ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2012)

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)

Service Improvement Road Map

This one-page overview outlines a rapid change service improvement process for service-related organizations. Steps in the process include: Assessing the system Identifying the problem Identifying the target objective Establishing a ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2012)

Team Covenant: A Strategy for Improving Team Culture

This Team Covenant was designed by a diverse team charged with providing comprehensive mental health services to youth and families. The team was made up of professionals, family members, youth, clients, and managers and had a history of strained dynamics. ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 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)

Technical Assistance Provider Market Research Report: seToolbelt India

This market research report synthesizes feedback from eleven technical assistance providers to social enterprises in India related to resource development and use in and amongst social enterprises and the organizations working to support them. It provides ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2012)

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)