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Dr. Glenn Lopez, the founder and general director of GuateSalud, faces cash flow problems and some crucial choices about how to expand his innovative health maintenance organization for agricultural workers in rural Guatemala. The case describes Lopez’s six-year struggle to establish GuateSalud and the organization’s effort to combine business principles with a social mission. Also […]

This note identifies six dimensions that are useful for understanding the differences between private social-purpose organizations (nonprofit and for-profit) and traditional business firms. It also discusses the role of social enterprise in society and trends creating opportunities for social entrepreneurship. Harvard Business Review, 1994 By Gregory J Dees Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common […]

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

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

Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization has gained national recognition, and offers a variety of programs on a budget of nearly half a million dollars. It is still run out of Mariotti’s apartment. Mariotti is beginning to feel the stress of […]