Welcome to our Changemaker Profiles blog series! Each edition will profile one outstanding social changemaker from the JVA client community. By sharing the stories of some of the incredible people we get to work with every day, each accomplishing extraordinary work in nonprofits, government, social enterprise and elsewhere, we hope we will bring a little [...]
By Sarah Hidey, Co-Managing Director/Director of Resource Development, and Adam Brock, Director of Strategic and Business Planning A few weeks ago, Marshall Ganz, Tamara Kay and Jason Spicer published an opinion piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Social Enterprise is Not Social Change.” In their piece, the authors claim that the fields of social enterprise and [...]
JVA, SEA and Boomers Leading Change Holiday Party We are coming to the end of the year and we'd like to take this time of year to extend a big THANK YOU to all of you in our community. Whether you are a client, partner, friend or colleague, you are important to us and this [...]
By Janine Vanderburg, President and CEO, Joining Vision and Action Shopping social enterprise on Valentine's Day is a terrific way to not only say "I love you" but also to express your values. So with everything going on in the world, has it occurred to anyone else that Valentine's Day is exactly a week away? That [...]
Alaine Anderson, digital strategist and implementer, Joining Vision and Action Blogging: It’s not only the bread and butter of driving traffic to a website, it also positions your organization as experts in your field. In particular, social enterprises have a lot to gain from blogging. Beyond just establishing expertise, it provides a platform to raise [...]
What is Permaculture Design? Permaculture design is a flexible framework that uses natural systems to inform our efforts to improve society. This post is the first in a 12-part series explaining how the principles of permaculture design can inform the work of nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and others working for social change. The content is adapted [...]
By Rolfe Larson, Senior Consultant for Strategic and Business Planning, Joining Vision and Action (JVA) We expect big changes. This week, we enter a new era. Starting January 20, there will be significant policy and funding changes in the U.S. in healthcare, education, immigration and the environment. While we cannot predict accurately what those changes [...]
By Rolfe Larson, Joining Vision and Action What constitutes "true" social enterprises? Thousands of nonprofits that use the marketplace to accomplish their social goals call themselves social enterprises (SEs). Thousands of for-profit companies with social goals also use that term. Yet these two groups barely talk with each other. Why is that? Benefit corporations and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
