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 […]