Description
The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise is an essential guide to starting a social enterprise within your nonprofit organization. The step-by-step process in this comprehensive manual offers a tested approach to launching a successful nonprofit social enterprise that builds your organization's capacity and reduces reliance on traditional but dwindling funding sources.
This manual, part of the popular CharityChannel Press In the Trenches series, has examples, worksheets, guidelines, and a business plan template and process that take you through the entire journey of what must be done to launch a successful social enterprise that works to build sustainability for your mission and market.
The authors show you how to reduce your nonprofit's dependence on traditional funding and outlines processes for building unrestricted income sources that allow your organization to expand services, develop new programs, provide better wages and benefits for staff, and build organizational capacity.
Learn how to:
- Create sustainability.
- Develop a sound business plan.
- Discover an enterprise venture that aligns with your mission.
- Reduce your dependence on charitable donations.
- Execute a strategic process that builds sustainability.
The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise will help you develop a clear vision and results-driven plan.
Chapter One
Social Enterprise: Changing the World for the Common Good
Chapter Two
Paradigm Shifts: The Business of Doing Good
Chapter Three
Vetting the Social Enterprise Model
Chapter Four
Organizational Goals, Focus, and Desired Outcomes
Chapter Five
Examining Your Assets and Opportunities: What You Do, What You Have, What You Know
Chapter Six
Testing the Waters
Chapter Seven
Developing Your Sales Plan
Chapter Eight
Understanding Pricing, Financing, and Costs
Chapter Nine
Developing Your Business Plan
Chapter Ten
Sustainability: The End Goal
Appendix A
Business Plan Example
Appendix B
Resources
Read this manual, follow the process, and join the ranks of forward-looking successful nonprofits that have changed their business model from reliance on others to sustainable self-reliance. It will be worth it
Author: Jean Block, Niki Nicastro McCuistion
Publisher: Charitychannel LLC
Published: 01/02/2014
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9781938077449
ISBN10: 193807744X
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities | General
- Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity
- Business & Economics | Marketing | General
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