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New Social Entrepreneurs

Published in 1996

New Social Entrepreneurs: The Success, Challenge, and Lessons of Nonprofit Enterprise Creation was written to provide a report to the growing number of people interested in nonprofit business development. Not intended as a definitive statement but as a “report from the trenches,” it chronicles the work of the Homeless Economic Development Fund (HEDF) from 1990-1996.

REDF New Social Entrepreneurs

1) Introduction

Table of Contents and Executive Summary

REDF New Social Entrepreneurs Part 1: The Organizations and Lessons Learned

(2) Case Studies
Five in-depth case studies of social purpose enterprises:

Rubicon Programs, Inc.
Larkin Business Ventures
Oak Street House
Central City Hospitality House
Youth industry/Healing Kidz

(3) Case Summaries
Seventeen social purpose enterprise case summaries:

Berkeley Oakland Support Services
Community Housing Partnership
Conard House, Inc.
A Tale of Three Vineyards: Homeless Garden Projects
Keystone Community Ventures, Inc.
Manos Development Corporation
InnVision’s Project Restore
San Francisco Network Ministries
Shelter Network of San Mateo County
Santa Clara Unified School District
Asian Neighborhood Design
Berkeley Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless
South of Market Foundation
San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
Women and Their Children’s Housing (WATCH)
Goodwill Industries’ Career Choice Program
Oakland Worker’s Cooperative Painting Project

(4) The Numbers
True Cost Accounting: A Financial Analysis of the Nonprofit Enterprise Experience (pp 135-172).

(5) The Numbers (continued)
True Cost Accounting: A Financial Analysis of the Nonprofit Enterprise Experience (pp 173-208).

REDF New Social Entrepreneurs Part 2: Perspectives On The Practice Of Nonprofit Enterprise

(6) Section One

The Employee Perspective
The Board of Directors’ Perspective
The Funder’s Perspective
The Competitive (Dis)Advantage of Nonprofit Enterprise
Grants, Debt, and Equity: The Nonprofit Capital Market and its Malcontents

(7) Section Two

The Positioning of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Global Economy: Understanding the World, the Region and Prospects for Nonprofit Enterprise in the New Century
Writings From Japan, Canada and New Zealand
The Nonprofit Franchise: The Ben & Jerry’s Partnership Program
Legal Considerations of Nonprofit Enterprise Development

(8) Section Three

Understanding the Organizational Development of Nonprofit Enterprise
Considerations for Individual Development
Self-Employment and Very Low-Income Women
Issues Concerning the Evaluation of Nonprofit Enterprise
Conclusion: Cross-Cutting Issues for the Field of Nonprofit Enterprise

REDF New Social Entrepreneurs Part 3: Appendices

(9) Appendices

Appendix A: Writing Credits
Appendix B: Recommended Readings and Resources
Appendix C: Recommended Listenings
Appendix D: Jed Letterman’s Top Ten List: Famous Last Words of Failed Social Entrepreneurs