Service providers and program managers want to see their participants thrive on their employment pathway and record positive impact metrics on the effectiveness of their program. Social Enterprises can approach this phase in two primary ways: tracking and continued services.
Stage: Grow a Social Enterprise
This deep dive summarizes some key research and strategies on employee retention originally shared by Richard Hendra from MDRC.
In this deep dive, we cover one of the key components of an employee success program, retention policies.
This case study tells the story of how an employment social enterprise (ESE) defined goals, selected venture criteria, and used them to identify the ideal city to expand to.
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.
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.