Social Enterprise Toolkit
Social Enterprise IT Workforce Development
The EmpowerNet California Collaborative is working on the development of an online toolkit that will build capacity statewide to (1) launch successful, sustainable community technology centers; (2) develop and operate IT workforce training programs; and, (3) create IT-related social enterprises.
I was one of two keynote speakers at the launch meeting of the ENC, the other being Karen Chapple, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of UCB's Center for Community Innovation. Prof. Chapple spoke about her research on IT workforce development, outlined in a policy brief, Moving Beyond the Divide, available at http://www.policylink.org/pdfs/Moving_Beyond_the_Divide.pdf.
Just Enough Planning
Just Enough Planning
Rolfe Larson and Andy Horsnell's Quick Business Plan
There’s nothing magical about business planning. At its core, it involves thinking through and documenting who your target customers are, how your proposed venture will profitably address their needs better than the competition, how you will communicate with these customers, and how resources will be obtained to pay for startup costs.
The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Quest for the Holy Grail:
Michael Whitehead-Bust and Vincent Dawans on Financial Analysis for Social Enterprise
There is an elephant in the corner of this room. And we're going to talk about it.
As we go about our work with a wide range of social enterprises throughout the country, we have seen a significant and important Achilles heel that many in the room would rather not talk about: the quality of the financial and accounting systems by which we evaluate the financial performance of social enterprises.
Assessing Debt Capital as a Tool for Business Growth
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Staying On The Path Of Financial Sustainability
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Turning Administrative Expenses Into Opportunities
Turning Administrative Expenses Into Opportunities
Consultant Warren Tranquada Shows how Nonprofits are Profiting from Back-office Efficiency
As organizations develop new social enterprise ideas, they typically think first of businesses that leverage programmatic value, skills and assets. However, earned income innovation and social value can also come from administrative functions.
Scaling for Profit
Tips for the Long Haul
Tips for the Long Haul
How Project HIRED keeps creating earned income ventures in times of change
Part Two: This retrospective view of Project HIRED and its history of earned income ventures continues this month with tips and other important factors that have made a difference in being able to plan, start up, and adapt Project HIRED’s businesses through many internal and environmental changes.
Project HIRED’s mission is to assist individuals with disabilities to gain competitive employment and advance their careers through partnerships with industry. Combined, our three social business ventures provide competitive employment to over 100 workers with disabilities (with salaries and benefits in excess of $2.6 million) and generate a net contribution of $410,000 or 12%.
Tip 1: access to expertise
Staying On The Path Of Financial Sustainability
Staying On The Path Of Financial Sustainability
A Retrospective on 19 years with Project HIRED
Project HIRED launched its first social business venture, HIRED Temps temporary staffing services, in 1986. Since then, California’s Silicon Valley has gone through several recessions. The most recent was particularly severe with hundreds of companies going out of business and the loss of 200,000 (or 15%) of total jobs. 19 years later, HIRED Temps continues to be a highly successful business venture, annually providing employment to over 100 individuals with significant disabilities, with $1.3+ million in gross sales and contributing over $100,000 annually to fund other programs and services.
Social Fusion Media Panel Report
Social Fusion Media Panel Report
On May 27th the third annual Conversations in Social Enterprise launched with Media Mavens: The Art and Compromise of Selling Good News. The ongoing summer luncheon series is a “Best Practices” forum sponsored by the San Francisco-based Social Fusion, a social enterprise incubator with a mission of fusing the power of business with the heart of social impact.
Using Star Power for Webcam Peace
Implementation
Implementation
Rolfe Larson and Andy Horsnell on Turning Your Business Plan into a Business
You’ve gone through the steps. You've sorted through numerous venture ideas (January 2005 SER: Fast Track or Back Burner), assessed the feasibility of a few of them (February 2005 SER: Testing the Waters), and written a quick business plan for one (March 2005 SER: Just Enough Planning).
Now you’re ready to move beyond planning and start doing. Your business plan is reasonably thorough, so there’s nothing to worry about, right? Sorry—wrong. Hopefully, it tells you enough to get started, but it’s only a plan. The rest you’ll have to figure out as you go.
