SUPPORT SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS TO DELIVER POSITIVE IMPACT ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE BY JOSEPH SZOCIK
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Inside you will find:
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Preface
Why I wrote the Guide. Two critical challenges facing social entrepreneurs.
Introduction
Brief overview of Modules format.
Module 1: Cutting the Fog of Social Entrepreneurship
The Fog of Social Entrepreneurship can result in false starts, wasted resources, or failure. This module will
assist you to cut through the Fog and launch your social enterprise by making informed decisions.
Module 2: Preliminary Start-Up Planning, Preparation, Theory of Change (ToC)
Preparation and research are essential before you launch your social enterprise. The ToC will assist you to
think though the initial What, Why, How of your social enterprise.
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Module 3: Mapping and Analyzing the Social Enterprise Ecosystem
Every Social Enterprise has a unique ecosystem of allies, opponents, and dynamic factors. Mapping the eco-
system is an essential part of your preliminary research.
Module 4: Social Enterprise Canvas and Notes on Business Plans
The Social Enterprise canvas is a one-page business plan increasingly used by all types of business startups.
Module 5: Failure & Other Reality Checks
“Learn from the mistakes of others because you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” This
module contains links to sites that recount the causes of business failures by founders.
Module 6: Social Enterprise: Background & Key Concepts
This module is a curated collection of material and research on social entrepreneurship from established
thought leaders, and social activists.
Module 7: DIMENSION 1-Developing Your Sustainable Scalable Solution
Recommendations on tools and methodologies related to organizing the work needed to develop your
solution that end users will find unique, valuable, and worth purchasing.
Module 8: DIMENSION 2-Social Enterprise Business Model
Recommendations on tools and methodologies related to organizing the work needed to develop your
enterprise to produce your solution and sell it with optimum efficiency and effectiveness.
Module 9: DIMENSION 3-Scaling Impact
Recommendations on tools and methodologies related to organizing the work needed to scale the impact of
your enterprise to solve or mitigate a social problem by collaborating to seek transformative scale.
Module 10: DIMENSION 4 - Social Enterprise Skills
Recommendations on key skills needed such as change agents and business management.
Module 11: Wicked Problems
Recommendations on tools and methodologies related to organizing the work needed to address the most
complex social problems facing social entrepreneurs.
Module 12: Review-Getting Started
A summary of key material from the prior modules.
Appendix 1: Tool Boxes, 1, 2-48+ Curated Tools and Methodologies
Ten pages of Tools and Methodologies for organizing social changes, text, and Tables. Easy to browse.
Appendix 2-Resources
Sixteen pages of reference materials and resources related to social entrepreneurship. Easy to browse.
Brief Author Bio
One page author CV.
Additional Resources for Social Entrepreneurs
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TOOLBOX FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS and SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Curated collection of tools and methodologies for community organizers and social entrepreneurs undertaking or
collaborating to organize social movements, 74 pages.
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