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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)

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)

Logic Model Example: Substance Abuse Advisory Board

This logic model was created to communicate the purpose and function of a county-designated substance abuse advisory board in a small, rural county in Washington State. The process of designing this document and the final output (the logic model) helped ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 2012)

Harnessing Local Pride for Global Conservation

This article showcases the Pride Campaign by Rare, a conservation initiative that works to change behavior locally to protect ecosystems and is having an impact worldwide. ...

(caselet/profile, webpage, 2012)

Root Cause Analysis Worksheet (BEACON: Social Enterprise Advisor)

This worksheet will step you through a simple Root Cause Analysis of a social problem you are trying to solve by first identifying the problem and its symptoms, then asking the 5 Why's to hone in on a single (or more than one) root cause. ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 2012)

Theory of Change Worksheet (BEACON: Social Enterprise Advisor)

This worksheet is part of BEACON's Social Enterprise Advisor and steps the user through the process of creating a theory of change to inform planning for a social enterprise. ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 2012)

Logic Model Worksheet (BEACON: Social Enterprise Advisor)

This worksheet is part of BEACON's Social Enterprise Advisor and steps the user through the process of developing a Logic Model to inform planning for a social enterprise. ...

(template/sample, document (doc/odt), 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)

Drishtree: Sustainable Communities

This is a caselet about Drishtee, a social enterprise that works with poor rural communities in India. Drishtee, usually works through entrepreneurs, and has been creating for communities and its entrepreneurs sustainable business models that create ...

(caselet/profile, document (pdf), 2011)

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)

Discovering High Value Food Commodities for BOP Farmers Living in Tropical and Arid Lands

Booker T. Whatley (1987) showed small farmers in the United States how they could make a great deal of money and lower risk by growing “High Value Food Commodities” on “Pick-Your-Own” farms. In this paper I provide some ideas on how high value food ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Strategic Planning Primer

An introduction to Strategic Planning: Strategic planning: what it is (and what it's not) Who should be involved, and how? When should it take place? What should come out of it? Tools and resources that can guide you. How to get ...

(tips/guidelines, presentation, 2011)

The Other Tech Revolution: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 16

For most of modern history, technology has been the key differentiator between nations that prospered and the ones that didn't. Nations that innovated and became early adapters of scientific advances saw their economies grow, ensuring better services ...

(research/study, 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)

Social Enterprise Primer for Development Professionals: First in the Social Enterprise in International Development Paper Series

For the past few decades, economic development actors of all varieties have employed market-based approaches—engaged markets using commercial methods—as a means to reduce poverty in developing countries. Inspired in part by the success of microfinance as ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Finding Your Funding Model

This article is a response to requests for the “how” of funding models—the basic principles through which organizations can understand and investigate their long-range funding options and then develop a realistic plan for choosing and implementing them. ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2011)

Selling up without selling out

Ben and Jerry's ice cream sold to Unilever and Seeds of Change sold to Mars in the US. Closer to home, The Body Shop sold to L'Oreal and Green & Blacks sold to Cadburys. The sales of these businesses have certainly generated rich financial ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Why you Matter: Map your Social, Environmental or Cultural Impact

This worksheet will help you describe your social, environmental and/or social mission more clearly, and to make links between your activities and your goals. It is very helpful for showing how your organization creates value and how your work relates to ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2011)

State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011: From Canopy to Currency

This second annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets tracks, reports, and analyzes trends in global transactions of emissions reductions generated from forest carbon projects. The report covers forest carbon activity in compliance carbon markets as well ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2011)