Course: Social Enterprise: Growing a Sustainable Business

Thank you very much for joining us. It has been a pleasure to be with you, on your journey toward building a sustainable social enterprise. To connect with the educators: …

Here are some resources and organisations that support social enterprises at different stages of their development. Research and Reports Scaling Up: Catalyzing the Social Enterprise A.T. Kearney’s findings on the …

Supporting Social Enterprises The Big Lemon A local bus community-led company that uses cooking oil in Brighton. Click here to view more information about the Big Lemon. Circo Para Todos …

SROI was initially developed by Jed Emerson at Harvard Business School for the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (usually referred to as the REDF model) in 2000. SRI is now one …

Social impact is the positive change that your organisation has created or effected over time. This change could be social, economic and/or environmental. As a social enterprise, creating positive social …

In this video, social entrepreneurs discuss how they have created impact in their communities. Let’s see what they say. If you are a social entrepreneur, what is the social impact …

Technology can be used in many ways to help a social enterprise be more effective and impactful. You will be better equipped to undertake the processes of social impact measurement, …

Taking a social enterprise to the next stage requires an expansion of the organisation’s human resources beyond the close-knit team of co-founders. While founding a startup requires careful consideration of …

A successful social enterprise is one that molds its organisational culture around a set of core beliefs or values that help provide a focus to its vision. An organisational culture …

In an age of seemingly infinite apps, it is easy for social enterprises to get lost – and to lose valuable time and resources – in the vast field of …

Digital marketing has a unique advantage over traditional marketing in that it you can analyze marketing campaigns and understand what is working and what isn’t – typically in real time. …

Like conventional businesses, social enterprises must effectively market their products and services to customers in order to sustain and grow their operations. In keeping with the hybrid nature of social …

In the world of social enterprise, change is often the only constant. Social entrepreneurs must therefore equip themselves to manage and lead through periods of transition and transformation, whether these …

Social enterprises can benefit greatly from establishing positive partnerships with other local players. In times of change, having the support of government bodies, local businesses, and nonprofit organisations can make …

Effective leadership in a changing world must go beyond a written organizational mission statement or vision statement. It must even go beyond the leader’s vision and sense of purpose. Leadership …