This social enterprise business model template will be the starting point for your success. This social enterprise business model template is a flexible, open source framework for entrepreneurship that JVA has adapted for our social enterprise work. This template provides the basic set of areas and questions that aspiring (and successful) social entrepreneurs need [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, Joining Vision and Action Senior Associate Why do nonprofits need blogs? Everybody has a website. Everybody writes a blog. Everybody maintains a media list and sends press releases when the need arises. Everybody has a Facebook page and is active on other social media. None of those things are true, of course. [...]
Strategic fundraising. Cashing in on what your organization does best. In the past couple of posts (see Part 1 and Part 2 of this three part series), we’ve asked you to take a giant leap. A leap that may result in losing donors or losing contributed revenue. The unthinkable. We’ve recommended this to organizations with [...]
How can you get your fundraising plan from Point A (need money) to Point B (have money) in a straight line? Perviously we shared the first post of a three part series: the 7 Roadblocks to Strategic Fundraising. It's clear that those responsible for nonprofit development can experience fundraising fatigue and want to start applying more strategy to [...]
Making social enterprise your encore career. To hear him tell it, Bill Morris has made every mistake in the book on the road to creating his encore career—CEO and co-founder of Blue Star Recyclers, a nonprofit social enterprise which employs more than 35 people (25 with disabilities) to recycle electronic components in three states. He spent about [...]
Guest post by Betsy Werley, Director of Network Expansion at Encore.org How can nonprofits use encore talent to build capacity? “The resource squeeze . . . increasing needs in communities . . . governments shifting burdens to nonprofits” – these are some of the stresses on social-service organizations, according to the National Council of Nonprofits’ 2015 [...]
What are the best kept secrets of the successful social entrepreneur? By Scot Kersgaard, Joining Vision and Action Senior Associate When Denise Cerreta opened America’s first “pay as you can” restaurant in Salt Lake City in 2003, she had no idea what was in store for her or how to become a successful social entrepreneur. “I was [...]
Editor’s note: This blog first appeared in May 2016 and has been updated. Shopping social enterprise is a way to honor your mom while helping other women. By Janine Vanderburg, Founder and Strategic Advisor, Joining Vision and Action “There’s a reason some people think they can do anything–they listened to their mothers.” Although I don’t who [...]
This co-working pro knows how to follow all the rules. By Marshall Vanderburg, Joining Vision and Action Director of Operations Changemakers Co-working@JVA. Edgewater’s newest co-working space located right outside the Denver Highlands. Co-working spaces have been all the rage the past several years. Growth continues unabated in 2016. JVA [...]
How can a well-meaning start-up avoid “Silicon Valley Syndrome” and actually create real value for society? By Adam Brock, Director of Social Enterprise Every era has an industry that epitomizes its values. At the turn of the 20th century, nascent car companies like Ford and Packard were the symbols of a growing middle class. A [...]
