Resources and Literature

The courses' underlying methodology and tools

• Funck, Fetzer, Dreksler, 2023: People, Landscape, Sustainability: A Handbook for Community Innovation Promoters (free PDF)

Repository of ongoing CLLC Courses

• Access our lecture recordings and download learning materials here

A. Identifying Challenges and Setting Goals

Introduction, Social Innovation and Motivation

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report
• European Commission Report: Social Innovation and the Environment
• 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. London: Zed Books. Available for Purchase
• Partnership for European Environmental Research

Defining Social Entrepreneurship

• What is Social Enterprise?, by Social Enterprise Scotland
• Study: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2010): SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Paris: OECD. Available for Purchase or Accessible via Institution
• 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, pp. 32 — 53.

The Need for Systems Thinking / Empathy / Problem Definition

• Bill Drayton on the importance of empathy (Article), Bill Drayton is the founder of Ashoka
• Ashoka's start empathy initiative (Video)
• Download the Impact Gaps Canvas by Daniela Papi-Thornton
• Kahane, Adam (2004): Solving Tough Problems, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• A Guide to Stakeholder Interviews

Design Thinking

• d.school Methods (d.school - Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Standford)
• d.school Crash Course Videos
• d.school Bootcamp Bootleg A deck of cards to evolve the design thinking process - Download the deck
• IDEO Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Product and Service Design

• Service Design Methods

Overview of Social Entrepreneurship Business Models Part 1

• SEFORIS: Examples of Social Enterprises
• Social Enterprise Profiles by SENSCOT
• Business Model Canvas by Strategyzer (with explanatory video)
• Legal Structures for Social Enterprise at a Glance

Overview of Social Entrepreneurship Business Models Part 2

• Müller, S. (2012): Business Models in Social Entrepreneurship in Volkmann, C.K. et al. (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business, Wiesenbaden: Gabler Verlag/Springer Fachmedien, pp. 105-131.
• Another example of a Social Business Model Canvas (Download of the Business Model Canvas available)
• Aart van Veller: Unusual Suspects in Energy Transition (Video)
• Aart van Veller: Accelerating the Energy Revolution (Video)
• Kahane, Adam (2013): Transformative Scenario Planning (Article)

Innovative Networks, Consultanicies, Associations...

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

C. Designing the Business Model

The SE Business Plan

• Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain- Example Brazil (Video)
• Harvard i-lab: Developing a Social Enterprise Business Plan with Allen Grossman (Video)

Financing Models for SE

• 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 Social Entrepreneurship

• Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K.O., and Ernst, K. (Eds.) (2012): Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business. An introduction and discussion with case studies, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag/Springer Fachmedien. Recommendation: 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. Recommendation: 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: A guide for business
• Overview: B-Corporations
• Social Reporting Standard
• Octavia Foundation SROI Report (Good Practice Example)
• SAMfoSE Social Entrepreneurship Self Assessment Tool
• IRIS Performance Metrics from the Global Impact Investing Network
• World Bank Impact Evaluation Impact Evaluation in Practice
• The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) Guidelines to the DCED's standard for Results Measurement