Social Enterprise: Growing a Sustainable Business

Syllabus

• Week 1

  Strategies for Sustainability

  • Let's get started

    The next steps should give you a flavour of how this course works and what it will cover. You will meet the course team and be able to introduce yourself.

  • Strategies for sustainability and scaling up

    In this section, we will evaluate different strategies to sustain or scale up your social enterprise

  • Building an organisation based on values

    How do social enterprises manage the growth of their teams and operations while constantly strengthening their core mission?

• Week 2

  The Challenge of Changemaking

  • Common challenges faced by social enterprises

    Analyze your social enterprise to figure out what challenges you will likely encounter.

  • Leading in a changing environment

    Leadership strategies for convening supporters and managing change

  • Evaluating social enterprise performance

    In this section, we will evaluate our social enterprise looking at its strengths and weaknesses.

• Week 3

  Achieving Social Impact at Scale

  • Marketing strategies and storytelling for change

    This activity explores different marketing strategies to promote your social enterprise

  • Funding and investment for impact

    Lack of funding opportunities is a disadvantage many social enterprises face. But some social enterprises can earn a profit sufficient to receive funding by investors, and increasingly new sources of capital are being unlocked.

  • Measuring social impact

    How can you measure the social impact of your social enterprise?

  • Conclusion

    In this activity, we review what you've learned in this course and provide some final resources and references for social enterprises