Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change Glossary

This is a glossary for students of the online course Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change. The goal here is to help students of a diversity of backgrounds and disciplines understand the language of Social Entrepreneurship. Unless otherwise stated, these definitions are taken from our own materials.

A

Activities

B

Balanced Scorecard

Break-Even Analysis

Business Development

Business Plan

C

Channels

Commercial Activity

Community Development

Community Based Tourism

Competencies

Compliance

Core Values

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cradle to Cradle

Crowdfunding

Customer Relationships

D

Design Thinking

Distribution

Diversification

Donations

E

Ecological Footprint

Embodied Energy

Energy Efficiency

Equity Crowdfunding

F

Fair Trade

G

Greenwashing

I

Impacts

Impact Resources

Inputs

L

Landscape

Lending Crowdfunding

Life Cycle Costs

Loan Guarantee

Local Challenge

M

Marketing

Mission

N

Non-Profit Organizations

O

Operational Structure

Organizational Structure

Outcomes

Outputs

P

PESTLE

Private Equity

Promotion

R

Renewable Energy

Results Chain

Reward-Based Crowdfunding

S

Shared Value

Shareholder Value

SME

Social Aims

Social Business

Social Economy

Social Enterprise

Social Entrepreneurship

Social Impact Bonds

Social Return on Investment

Stakeholder

Stakeholder Value

Sustainability

SWOT Analysis

T

Theory of Change

V

Value Chain

Value Proposition

Venture Capital

Vision