This resource provides key operational, social, and financial criteria a social enterprise should consider when deciding how to grow. Social enterprise executive teams who are evaluating the potential of a growth strategy should review this resource and develop their own set of venture criteria.
Stage: Grow a Social Enterprise
Growth Capital is enterprise-level funding or investment that builds the capacity for business expansion and strategic planning. Growth Capital provides social enterprises with the space for deep reflection before tackling the next step in their plan to scale.
Today’s social entrepreneurs grow their ventures in the name of both financial viability and social impact.
One option for achieving scale faster than organic growth is by having others replicate the business model (sometimes referred to as “franchising”).
Intro A growth plan is a social enterprise’s articulated vision and rationale for how it will grow its business in the marketplace and scale its ability to achieve its mission. In order to develop a clearly articulated, compelling, and comprehensive growth plan, you will need to address at least the following considerations: Below, we explore […]
This second article addresses steps five to seven, which happen after the top executive has decided to leave.
Succession planning begins with the end in mind. The leader’s leaving is not the end; in fact, it is also a new beginning – for the departing leader, for their successor, and most importantly, for the organization and all its people.
This presentation provides a user-friendly summary of research conducted on different types of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software available on the market.
The Supervisor Onboarding & Training presentation is an example of a cohesive package of training material for onboarding new supervisors at an employment social enterprise.
This Venture Criteria Bank & Template Tool can be used for ESEs to generate, refine, and prioritize a set of venture criteria that will enable them to meet their business, social, and operational goals.