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11 minutes | Business Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Lead Qualification Tool

You can use this tool to determine whether prospective customers are a good fit for the organization and how likely they are to become customers.

10 minutes | Business Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Net Promoter Score Survey & Analysis

Learn more about how to conduct a NPS survey and analysis, and see an example analysis output.

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.

5 minutes | Employee Success Program, Financial Management, Raising Capital & Fundraising | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis

It has become increasingly important that we be able to understand not simply that a program is a “good cause,” but rather that its social returns argue for increasing our investments in their work.

6 minutes | Employee Success Program, Leadership & Talent | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Job Readiness Assessment

This deep dive will cover some of the key components to implementing an effective job readiness assessment process, as well as share a tool that can help you do so.

7 minutes | Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

What Does it Mean to be “Job Ready”?

The participant worker’s “job readiness” can be thought of as the combination of three areas for professional and personal development: soft skills, hard skills, and personal readiness.

3 minutes | Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Job Readiness Assessment Tool

The tool establishes a threshold for essential skills and personal readiness for social enterprise employees ready to move into competitive employment. The standards are compelling because they are designed to measure workers’ on-the-job performance, rather than a measurement of inputs or test-based performance.