Social Entrepreneurship
Social Enterprise: An Alternative Career Choice for MBAs
By Gregory J Dees For new MBAs interested in pursuing nontraditional business careers, the social sector provides a promising and challenging alternative. For the majority of MBAs, it is more likely that they will serve the social sector on a part-time basis at some point in their careers as board members, consultants or volunteers. Even […]
Thinking About Starting A Business? Read This First
Nonprofit leaders have long fantasized about creating businesses that generate earned income to fund their operations. The social entrepreneur’s bottom line is her missions. Making more money, only to fritter it away on ineffective or inefficient programs, is a failure, not a success. Because it is unrestricted, earned income provides no inherent check on the […]
Note on Starting a Nonprofit Venture
Provides anyone considering starting a nonprofit organization with a basic understanding of the nature of nonprofit status, tax and regulatory issues for nonprofits, and the distinctive management challenges associated with a nonprofit start-up. By Gregory J Dees and Alice Oberfield Harvard Business Review, 1991 Note on Starting a Nonprofit Venture
Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures
Designed to help nonprofit entrepreneurs design fund-raising strategies that are appropriate for their specific organizations. Discusses the major fund-raising alternatives, including foundations, corporations, government sources, wealthy individuals, and the public, and provides references for further research. By Gregory J Dees and Nadine Dolby Harvard Business Publishing, 1991 Sources for Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures