Social Entrepreneurship

An Introductory Workshop for Nonprofit Leaders

This workshop explains one of the most important breakthroughs in nonprofit development: social entrepreneurship. Participants learn what social entrepreneurship is, and how to develop and implement customized plans for social entrepreneurship, including for their own organizations.

Here's Who Will Benefit

Personnel, including:

• Board members
• Chief Executive Officers
• Program and project managers
• Funders/investors

Here's What We'll Cover In This Workshop

• An overall framework for understanding social entrepreneurship
• Emerging trends that encourage social entrepreneurship
• Benefits of being more entrepreneurial
• Characteristics of social entrepreneurs
• Six stages of entrepreneurial development
• Managing the risks of failure
• Critical success factors
• Why funders should support social entrepreneurship
• Why most small businesses fail
• What will be required from your organization to implement social entrepreneurship
• Major social entrepreneurship strategies and important considerations (product and service sales, free-standing businesses, partnership with corporations)
• Your entrepreneurial self-assessment
• Six stages of social entrepreneurial development for your organization:
  a) Clarify your situation
  b) Inventory your assets and capabilities
  c) Brainstorm, screen and select short list of opportunities
  d) Research your short list and select best opportunities
  e) Strategize and plan to implement your selected opportunities
  f) Implement your plan and adjust to reality
• Planning your next actions

Features of This Training

• Focused on nuts-and-bolts activities of planning social entrepreneurship activities for your organization
• Instruction from enterprise management development experts on social entrepreneurship
• Comprehensive, well-organized and substantive training materials
• As much as possible, we customize the training to suit the nature and needs of the attendees

We Customize This Training for You and Your Organization

• Contact us to tell us about whom you wish to train, when and where.
• We'll work with you to accommodate your budget and schedule and to customize the training according to your needs.
• If you want to explore this more, please feel free to contact us.