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Social Enterprise Marketing Toolkit: Marketing Resource for Social Enterprises

This Toolkit has been designed to help you understand the fundamentals of marketing, and to apply them in your social enterprise. It's divided into four modules, each of which is presented in a video. During each module, you'll be invited to ...

(toolkit/manual, video, 2010)

South Africa: The Play Pump (Turning water into child's play)

In rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2005)

What Is Social Enterprise?

A brief video overview of the distinguishing characteristics of social enterprise business models in contrast to non-profit and profit-maximizing models by Social Enterprise Fund. ...

(workshop/training, video, 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)

Formatting Tricks in Excel

This 12 minute demo covers a variety of format-related functions to make it easier to view and use a dataset in Excel. You can watch the whole thing, or let the video load and skip to a section (look for a blue slide at the start of each). Tips include: ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2011)

What is SalesForce? And Why Nonprofits Should Care

This 8-minute video provides an overview of the SalesForce customer relationship (CRM) platform and outlines its capabilities and benefits to nonprofit organizations. ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2011)

Creating Shared Value: Connecting Business, Societal Value and Opportunity

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Jane Nelson discuss creating shared value and give examples from HP, Nestlé and Novartis on how corporations can put this approach into practice. ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2011)

Interview: Kim Alter on Social Enterprise

In this 15 minute video interview, Kelly Janiga, Social Enterprise Research Manager at the William Davidson Institute, talks to Kim Alter about her views on key social enterprise issues. ...

(essay/opinion, video, 2011)

Buckelew Programs: Social Enterprises

Buckelew provides paid employment opportunities to individuals working at our two Green Certified Social Enterprise businesses — Blue Skies Coffees & Teas and Blue Skies Cleaning Services. Social enterprises are businesses operated by nonprofits as a ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2011)

New Door Ventures Overview

New Door Ventures helps at-risk youth get ready for work and life. These disconnected youth are at-risk for a number of negative outcomes, including substantial periods of unemployment, homelessness, involvement with the criminal justice system and ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2011)

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Money is usually used to motivate employees. The higher the salary, the better performance, right? Wrong, according to RSAnimate. This engaging video reveals the surprising determinants of high performance among employees. ...

(research/study, video, 2010)

Not-for-Profits Making Profits: Social Enterprise and Legal Issues in Canada

The Social Enterprise Council of Canada is pleased to present a recording of the first in a series of webinars entitled "Nonprofits Making Profits: Social Enterprise and Legal Issues in Canada". Social enterprise is emerging in Canada as a ...

(workshop/training, video, 2010)

More than Money: Impact Investing for Development

Impact Investing—seeking positive social and financial returns—is generating tremendous interest in the financial and foundation communities as a new, more effective way to achieve development. Can it really change the development dynamic for the good, and ...

(research/study, video, 2010)

Social Enterprise Fund's YouTube Channel

The Social Enterprise Fund has produced a series of videos (available on YouTube) related to social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, and the ventures that they fund. This is a good starting point for someone new to social enterprise. ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2010)

AAC's Success Story

In response to the absence of an investment facility which focuses on the development of private initiative in the agriculture sector in East Africa, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Volksvermogen NV have established African ...

(case/model, video, 2010)

How to Write a Mission Statement that Doesn't Suck: A Conversation with Dan Heath

You might think mission statements are not the responsibility of social innovators. You can leave that to your communications director. After all, it’s just words. But thinking about how to communicate your mission can help you understand what your ...

(tips/guidelines, video, 2010)

Transfair USA (Uncommon Hero: Paul Rice)

Paul Rice founded TransFair USA in 1998 to build a more equitable and sustainable model of international trade that benefits producers, consumers, industry and the earth. TransFair USA helps small farmers in developing countries through its work with ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2010)

How to Find Bright Spots

Social innovators tend to believe that they need to create new solutions for problems around them. But what if you don’t? What if solutions already exist? ...

(toolkit/manual, video, 2010)

Afghan Institute of Learning (Uncommon Hero: Sakena Yacoobi)

Meet Sakena Yacoobi. Sakena Yacoobi founded the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) in 1995 to restore educational and health programs in Afghanistan that had been dramatically cut during 30 years of warfare. The organizations 44 education and health ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2010)

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain (TEDGlobal 2010)

We're bringing gameplay into more aspects of our lives, spending countless hours -- and real money -- exploring virtual worlds for imaginary treasures. Why? As Tom Chatfield shows, games are perfectly tuned to dole out rewards that engage the brain ...

(essay/opinion, video, 2010)