Resources and Literature

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A. Identifying Challenges and Setting Goals

Introduction, Social Innovation and Motivation

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report
• Europe Tomorrow: Social & Environmental Innovation
• TEPSIE Growing Social Innovation
• Muhammad Yunus on Social Business (Video)
• The key competencies in sustainability, Article
• Bornstein, D. (2005) So You Want to Change the World? The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Citizen Sector. Hart House Lectures 4.
• Porter, M.E. & Kramer, M.R. (January-February 2011) Creating Shared Value. Harvard Business Review. Available for Purchase
• Michael Porter on businesses and social problems (video)
• Felber, C. (2015). Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Available for Purchase
• Partnership for European Environmental Research

Defining Social Entrepreneurship

• What is Social Enterprise? from Social Enterprise Scotland
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2010). SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation. Paris: OECD.
• A business planning guide to developing a social enterprise
• The Social Enterprise Starting Point Guide
• Defourny, Jacques and Nyssens, Marthe(2010) 'Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Convergences and Divergences', Journal of Social Entrepreneurship,1: 1, 32 — 53

The Need for Systems Thinking / Empathy / Problem Definition

• Bill Drayton on the importance of empathy, Article
• Ashoka's start empathy initiative, video
• Download the Impact Gaps Canvas by Daniela Papi-Thornton
• Solving Tough Problems, Article
• A Guide to Stakeholder Interviews

Design Thinking

• d.school Methods
• d.school Crash Course Videos
• d.school Bootcamp Bootleg
• IDEO Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Product and Service Design

• Service Design Methods (open access)

Overview of SE Business Models Part 1

• SEFORIS: Examples of Social Enterprises
• TEPSIE Publications
• Social Enterprise from European Social Innovation Research
• Social Enterprise Profiles from SENSCOT
• Business Model Canvas example
• Legal Structures for Social Enterprise at a Glance
• lavka tagurpidi

Overview of SE Business Models Part 2

• Values Based Checklist from Social Firms England
• Müller, S. "Business Models in Social Entrepreneurship" (2012) in Volkmann, C.K. (Eds.) et al., Social Entrepreneurship and Social Businesss (pp. 105-131). Wiesenbaden: Gabler Verlag/Springer Fachmedien
• Another example of a Social Business Model Canvas
• Aart van Veller | Unusual Suspects in Energy Transition
• Aart van Veller | Accelerating the Energy Revolution
• Transformative Scenario Planning, Article

Innovative Networks, Consultanicies, Associations...

• Pioneers of Change
• Art of Hosting
• Reos Partners
• Presencing Institute (PI)

C. Designing the Business Model

The SE Business Plan

• Hybrid Value Chain
• Harvard i-lab | Developing a Social Enterprise Business Plan with Allen Grossman

Financing Models for SE

• TEPSIE Publications
• A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises, Harvard Business Review
• Making Sustainability Profitable, Harvard Business Review
• The State of Social Entrepreneurship -The Financing of Social Enterprises
• Lecture provided by Gabriel Solomon | Romania | Peer to Peer Crowdfunding | Galantom
• Interview with Cătălina Azamfirei by Shahrazad Hadad, ASE Bucharest | Romania | What is Crowdfunding?

Marketing Strategies for SE

• Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K.O., and Ernst, K. (eds.) 2012. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business. An introduction and discussion with case studies, Springer - chapter 7: Selling good: The big picture of marketing for social enterprises;
• Alter, S.K., 2000. Managing the Double Bottom Line: A business planning reference guide for social enterprises, Save the Children - chapter 5: The Marketing plan
• Birmingham & Solihull Social Economy Consortium links and downloads
• Social Enterprise Marketing Toolkit by Octopus Strategies: Module 1, Module 2 part 1, Module 2 part 2, Module 3, Module 4

Further Information

• Design Kit: The Human-Centered Design Toolkit
• Hosting in a hurry. Putting the Art of Hosting into practice

D. Revision and Evaluation

Measuring Social Impact

• WBCSD Measuring Socio-Business Impact
• B-Corps
• Social Reporting Standard
• Octavia Foundation SROI Report(Good Practice Example)
• SAMfoSE Social Entrepreneurship Self Assessment
• IRIS Performance Metrics from the Global Impact Investing Network
• World Bank Impact Evaluation
• The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), Guidelines to the DCED'S standard for Results Measurement