Audit Insight Tool

Published in 2009 | Download [XLS] 213 KB

Audit Insight is a REDF tool used to facilitate the analysis of a nonprofit organization’s audited* agency-level financials. It is designed to automatically identify areas of strength as well as areas of concern that could impact the organization’s financial stability. It generates a list of probing questions that help get at the root of potential problems... More »

Performance Dashboards: Speedometer and Odometer for Social Enterprise

Published in 2009 | Download [PDF] 2.03 MB

With one quick glance, your car's dashboard tells you how fast you're going and how much fuel you have left. A social-enterprise-specific dashboard can give you a quick snapshot of your enterprise's financial, operational, and social performance... More »

Social Costs Case Study

Published in 2008 | Download [XLS] 53 KB

Example double bottom line income statement to test understanding of double bottom line reporting... More »

Social Cost Training, Article, and Tool

Published in 2008

Social enterprises often have costs above and beyond comparable for-profit businesses, due to the extra time and effort required to fulfill their social missions. Identifying these so-called "social costs," and tracking them separately from business-related costs, can help social enterprises better manage both business and social performance simultaneously. ... More »

Strategic Co-Funding : A Diagnostic Tool

Published in 2008 | Download [XLS] 232 KB

This diagnostic tool accompanies "Out of Philanthropy's Funding Maze Roadmap #1: Strategic Co-Funding " and is designed to help an organization (or individual) determine whether Strategic Co-Funding is a good fit with its goals, mission, and processes... More »

Guide to Social Costs

Published in 2007 | Download [PDF] 229 KB

This presentation answers the questions:

• What are social costs?
• Why identify and track social costs?
• How to identify and track social costs, and use them to manage my enterprise?

REDF Double Bottom Line Template

Published in 2007 | Download [XLS] 85 KB

This file offers two different double bottom line income statement formats (horizontal and vertical) to report and track ... More »

Thrift Store Management Dashboard and Presentation

Published in 2007

The Thrift Store Management Dashboard is used to generate a monthly dashboard to track performance of thrift stores... More »

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... More »