Succeeding at social enterprise: hard-won lessons for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs

A best practices handbook from leaders and experts in the field, this book will offer professionals practical tools, guidance, models and successful cases to follow for starting and running an effective social enterprise. The book and contributors will focus on the core competencies needed to run a social venture in a nonprofit including managing and leading a venture, business planning, marketing and sales, accounting, etc. and will also include real life cases or examples of success from the field, across the different sub-sectors like health, education and social services and the different types of venture like social services, retail sales, etc. This book will be unique in that the contributors are successful practitioners and expert consultants with experience in the field and effective enterprises or clients to show for this. With the evolution and growth of the field, this book will highlight the most current and up-to-date best practices as well as the tried and true basics. Instead of discussing and analyzing theoretical concepts, this book will be the first to showhow social enterprises are succeeding everyday and what others can learn thissuccess and how they can build on it. Produced in an easy-to-read format withcontent organized and displayed in an easy-to-reference manner, the book willbe both accessible and inspirational focusing on practical applications. For the first time, this volume will bring together early pioneers and emerging successful entrepreneurs to help define the practice of the growing field of social enterprise.Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) based in Washington DC is the only membership organization devoted exclusively to building sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies. They accomplish this through a network connecting entrepreneurial nonprofits with learning opportunities, technical assistance andresources to further their efforts. SEA members are predominantly nonprofit practitioners, grant makers and lenders, but also include technical consultants, for-profit businesses and academics. Our practitioner members range from early stage entrepreneurs seeking the nuts and bolts knowledge to start and run an earned income activity to well-established practitioners seeking an opportunity to exchange ideas with other leaders of the field. Social Enterprise Alliance, as a field building association, brings together nonprofit executives andsocial entrepreneurs who have operated in isolation, creating a professional community and forum for addressing the needs and concerns of the enterprising nonprofit.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-40532-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 05/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés