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6 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Using a Breakeven Analysis to Inform Pricing Decisions

Before your social enterprise can evaluate different pricing strategies for its products, it must first understand two crucial pieces of information. In this deep dive, we will learn how to 1) Understand your social enterprise’s cost structure and 2) Conduct a break-even analysis.

7 minutes | Employee Success Program | Manage a Social Enterprise

Designing an Employee Supports Program: Goals and Strategies

Building an effective employee supports program for your social enterprise is an essential component of delivering the supports and services that help workers secure, succeed, and advance in employment and get on the pathway to self-sufficiency.

Designing an employee supports program is a multi-phase process. In this deep dive, we will cover the first two steps of the process

7 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Business Model-Impact Canvas

Use this simple business model canvas template called “The Impact Canvas” that is tailored for social enterprises to lay out your business idea.

12 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Common Pricing Strategies

Learn more about the common pricing strategies with a few bonus strategies!

2 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Pricing Power

Understanding pricing power is crucial because it directly influences a company’s ability to thrive and adapt in a dynamic marketplace.

10 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Price and Product Benchmarking

Develop a point of view on how your products are priced relative to competitors in the market.

30 minutes | Business Planning, Financial Management | Manage a Social Enterprise

Double Bottom Line (DBL) Analysis – Starter Kit

Double Bottom Line (DBL) financial analysis helps us understand how financially self-sustaining each part of our ESE is. Download this resource to create and analyze your own DBL income statement.

14 minutes | Business Planning, Financial Management | Manage a Social Enterprise

Introduction to Social Costs

Distinguishing social costs from ordinary business costs enables you to make more informed decisions on managing your budget and making targeted cost reductions.

15 minutes | Employee Success Program | Manage a Social Enterprise

SNAP & Medicaid Impacting ESE Workers

Read for more information on these important changes to SNAP and Medicaid, why REDF believes these changes are important for ESEs to be aware of, and additional tips on how to best support ESE  workers.