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LawForChange: Start-Up Kit

This resource provides a list of issues and steps that social sector organizations should consider before launching a new venture, including how to: Determine the best organizational structure for your venture Incorporate your venture Choose a ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

LawForChange: Organizational Structure

There are many issues to consider when deciding which organizational structure is best for a given organization. No form is inherently better than another, and each has merits and drawbacks. This in depth chart compares various structuring options ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

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)

Crowdfunding Your Social Enterprise?

This blog post and slide presentation address crowdfunding as a potential funding strategy for social enterprises. Includes a look at social enterprises who have successfully raised money from "crowds", lists several websites that facilitate ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2011)

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)

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)

The Hidden Costs of Cause Marketing

From pink ribbons to Product Red, cause marketing adroitly serves two masters, earning profits for corporations while raising funds for charities. Yet the short-term benefits of cause marketing—also known as consumption philanthropy—belie its long-term ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2009)

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)

An Executive Director’s Guide to Financial Leadership

Financial management is the collecting of financial data, production of financial reports, and solution of near-term financial issues. Financial leadership, on the other hand, is guiding a nonprofit organization to sustainability. This article published ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Conducting a Walk-Through

This tip sheet provides details on how to conduct a "walk-through" of a service-related organization to assess the customer-facing services and processes provided by that organization. Typically conducted by a member of the management team, a ...

(tips/guidelines, document (doc/odt), 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)

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)

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)

LawForChange: Forms of Organization

This webpage includes state-by-state links providing detailed information on the state supported forms of organization for social-purpose ventures, as well as additional requirements related to incorporation, reporting, hiring and compensation processes ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 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)

Performance Management Primer

This report was developed to communicate the value of performance management, explain the stages of development and implementation of a performance management system, and provide key considerations for successful implementation of a performance management ...

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

Ending Chronic Homelessness: Market Research by Root Cause

This page provides statistics, research, and data related to the issue of chronic homelessness compiled by Root Cause. It includes a social issue report, state-by-state statistics, a list of organizations working to combat chronic homelessness, and links ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Youth Career Development: Market Research by Root Cause

Youth career development is a subfield of workforce development. It serves disengaged youth—young people aged 14-24, who are not actively engaged in education, training, or the workforce. The goal is to help these youth return to school, enroll in ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Marketing in a Rural Area

Many marketing strategies are targeted towards enterprises in urban areas, despite much entrepreneurial activity in rural locations. Teach A Man To Fish has found that a 'one size fits all' approach is often not successful, and so developed an ...

(tips/guidelines, document (doc/odt), 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)