Description
Book SynopsisScaling the Social Enterprise is an ideal text for courses that focus on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, at either the graduate or undergraduate level. Common themes across high growth social startups discussed in the book include:
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- building and modifying a management team for growth
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- creating and maintaining a dynamic stakeholder network
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- choosing corporate form and funders
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- moving from idea to pilot, to roll-out, and pivots along the way
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- the importance of media magic in building a brand
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- developing and refining one’s value chain
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- the pivotal role of technology in scaling.
Featuring high profile, high growth social startups including Fair Trade USA, Revolution Foods, Sanergy, Kiva, d.light, Back to the Roots, and Grameen America, the chapter on funding social startups also profiles social funders such as Bridges Fund Management and Better Ventures, amongst others.
Trade Review'Scaling the Social Enterprise
is an insightful and practical guide to the rapidly growing number of purpose-driven businesses and capital-savvy nonprofits that are developing innovative, cost-effective and scalable solutions to the systemic problems that our world faces.' -- – Brian Trelstad, Bridges Fund Management, US
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Scaling the Social Enterprise 1. Building and modifying the team for growth 2. Creating and maintaining a dynamic stakeholder network 3. Choosing corporate form and funders 4. The role of media in building a brand 5. Moving from idea to pilot to scale 6. Defining and refining one’s value chain 7. The pivotal role of technology in scaling 8. Measuring impact Conclusion to Scaling the Social Enterprise Index
