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Microfranchising at the Base of the Pyramid

Published in 2008 | Download [PDF] 386 KB
Posted by dlehr

David Lehr, Senior Advisor, Social Innovations, Mercy Corps... More »

"Financing Civil Society: A Practitioner’s View of the UK Social Investment Market".

Published in 2008 | Download [PDF] 577 KB
Posted by smullock

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Assessment of Demand for Nonprofit Enterprise Support Services in Central Appalachia

Published in 2008 | Download [PDF] 342 KB
Posted by redf-content

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and Appalachian Regional Commission commissioned the attached study, which is the most comprehensive survey of social enterprise activity in the region to date... More »

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Addressing the Critical Gaps in Risk-Taking Capital for Social Enterprise

Published in 2007
Posted by redf-content

Jed Emerson, Senior Fellow with Generation Foundation
Tim Freundlich, Calvert Foundation's Director of Strategic Development
Jim Fruchterman, President of Benetech

In this paper, the financial challenges that social enterprises face as they become more mature and successful are evaluated. The authors assert that the social enterprise sector lacks access to funding because there are almost no sources of expansion capital available. They call for further research into the needs of this quickly-expanding community... More »

From Fragmentation to Function: Critical Concepts and Writings on Social Capital

Published in 2007 | Download [PDF] 637 KB
Posted by redf-content

The Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship has published a paper on “social capital markets.” Co-authors Jed Emerson and Joshua Spitzer aim to focus future research with this paper, as well as increase investments that generate social and environmental value, in conjunction with financial performance... More »

Social Enterprise Typology

Published in 2007
Posted by redf-content

Kim Alter, Virtue Ventures, LLC
This analysis categorizes the range of social enterprise models in order to help readers navigate through the diverse and dynamic landscape of this emerging field. It organizes practitioners on a philanthropic-to-commercial spectrum... More »

Social Enterprise - Farber Intern

Published in 2006 | Download [PDF] 239 KB
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Lauren Scopaz
Former REDF Farber Intern, Lauren Scopaz, wrote an article about her experience spending a summer working at Pedal Revolution, a social enterprise run by New Door Ventures in San Francisco... More »

Framing a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship: Building on Two Schools of Practice and Thought

Published in 2006 | Download [PDF] 132 KB
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J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson
The future for the field of Social Enterprise lies in the intersection of the schools of Social Enterprise and Social Innovation. Future academic inquiry should focus on “enterprising social innovations” – carrying out innovations... More »

Case Study: An Enterprising Failure

Published in 2006 | Download [PDF] 571 KB
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Paul Tracey and Owen Jarvis
This case study looks at the rise and fall of Aspire, one of the first Social Enterprises in the United Kingdom to expand through franchising... More »

“Must Read” Publications on Social Enterprise

Published in 2005 | Download [DOC] 47 KB
Posted by redf-content

This list includes publications recommended by Jim McClurg of Social Enterprise Alliance (Seattle, WA), Kay Sohl of TACS (Portland, OR) and Jed Emerson (Senior Fellow, Generation Foundation, of Generation Investment Management)... More »

Changing Lives, Changing Times

Published in 2003
Posted by redf-content

Meredith Maran
A timely look at Juma Ventures’ first decade. Chock full of Juma’s successes, lessons learned, and the great adventures along the way, this is an insider’s perspective on launching and sustaining social purpose enterprises and transforming lives... More »

Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization

Published in 2002 | Download [PDF] 548 KB
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Rolfe Larson, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Excerpt downloadable. To purchase a complete hardcopy, contact Wilder Publishing Center at 1-800-274-6024 or online at www.wilder.org... More »

A Nonprofit Guide to Developing and Implementing An Income Stream Venture

Published in 2001 | Download [PDF] 463 KB
Posted by redf-content

Prepared by Clohesy Consulting, this guide builds on the Frequently Asked Questions section of The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund’s website... More »

Work as a Priority: A Resource Guide for Employing People who have a Serious Mental Illness and who are Homeless

Published in 2001
Posted by redf-content

Edited by Gary Shaheen, M.P.A., Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., Francine Mikloucich, M.A., and Deborah Dennis, M.A., both of the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness... More »

Unleashing New Resources and Entrepreneurship for the Common Good

Published in 1999 | Download [PDF] 204 KB
Posted by redf-content

A new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs – committed to using market-based approaches to solve social problems – is unleashing new ways of using resources for the public good... More »

Privatization, Competition and the Future of Human Services

Published in 1999 | Download [PDF] 106 KB
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Edward Skloot
Like most of us, as the famous jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes got older, he got progressively more absent-minded. Once, on a train trip to Washington, D.C., he was asked for his ticket, but could not locate it. He searched his pockets, his briefcase and his seat. No luck. He became increasingly distraught... More »

Managing the Double Bottom Line: A Business Plan for Social Enterprises

Published in 1999 | Download [PDF] 621 KB
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Sutia Kim Alter, Save the Children Federation
Excerpt downloadable. To purchase a complete hardcopy call Pact Publishing @ 202-466-5666 or www.pactpublications.com... More »

A Double ‘Bottom Line’: Lessons on Social-Purpose Enterprise from the Venture Fund Initiative

Published in 1999 | Download [PDF] 135 KB
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This report contains observations from the Venture Fund Initiative, a six-month inquiry into the state of social-purpose enterprises and their prospects for growth. In this discussion, the phrase “social-purpose enterprises”... More »

The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship

Published in 1998 | Download [DOC] 51 KB
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Gregory Dees
The idea of “social entrepreneurship” has struck a responsive cord. It is a phrase well suited to our times. It combines the passion of a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination... More »