
- Duration3 weeks
- Weekly study4 hours
Social Enterprise: Growing a Sustainable Business
Is your social enterprise sustainable? Through theory, practical information, and video case studies from around the world, this course helps you evaluate your model and develop a plan to take it to the next level by mapping your stakeholders, marketing your business, and managing change.
This course was developed by Middlesex University Business School, with Living in Minca and the Jindal Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and learn at your own pace. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply different business tools to scale the business
- Identify current challenges of the business
- Reflect on the steps to grow a social enterprise company
Who is the course for?
This course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about social enterprise, including entrepreneurs, charities and students.
Learning on FutureLearn
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- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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