The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise

The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise is an essential guide to starting a social enterprise within your nonprofit organization. The step-by-step process in this comprehensive manual offers a tested approach to launching a successful nonprofit social enterprise that builds your organization's capacity and reduces reliance on traditional but dwindling funding sources.

This manual, part of the popular CharityChannel Press In the Trenches series, has examples, worksheets, guidelines, and a business plan template and process that take you through the entire journey of what must be done to launch a successful social enterprise that works to build sustainability for your mission and market.

The authors show you how to reduce your nonprofit's dependence on traditional funding and outlines processes for building unrestricted income sources that allow your organization to expand services, develop new programs, provide better wages and benefits for staff, and build organizational capacity.

Learn how to:

• Create sustainability.
• Develop a sound business plan.
• Discover an enterprise venture that aligns with your mission.
• Reduce your dependence on charitable donations.
• Execute a strategic process that builds sustainability.

The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise will help you develop a clear vision and results-driven plan.

Chapter OneSocial Enterprise: Changing the World for the Common Good

Chapter TwoParadigm Shifts: The Business of Doing Good

Chapter ThreeVetting the Social Enterprise Model

Chapter FourOrganizational Goals, Focus, and Desired Outcomes

Chapter FiveExamining Your Assets and Opportunities: What You Do, What You Have, What You Know

Chapter SixTesting the Waters

Chapter SevenDeveloping Your Sales Plan

Chapter EightUnderstanding Pricing, Financing, and Costs

Chapter NineDeveloping Your Business Plan

Chapter TenSustainability: The End Goal

Appendix ABusiness Plan Example

Appendix BResources

Read this manual, follow the process, and join the ranks of forward-looking successful nonprofits that have changed their business model from reliance on others to sustainable self-reliance. It will be worth it!