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Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency 
By Jerr Boschee, Encore! Press, March 3, 2006
Jerr Boschee's newest book covers the basic principles of social entrepreneurship, typical outcomes experienced by the pioneers in the field, some common stakeholder concerns, the single greatest obstacle for nonprofits adopting or expanding entrepreneurial strategies, and 14 critical success factors (Amazon.com)
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Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica
By James E. Austin (Editor), Roberto Gutierrez (Editor), Enrique Ogliastri (Editor), Ezequiel Reficco (Editor), 2005
What makes civil society organizations effective performers? What are key practices for businesses creating social value activities as a part of their overall operations? This book aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.
Based on the results of a two-year research (40 cases) process on how social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Effective Management of Social Enterprises presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region.
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Social Partnering in Latin America. Lessons Drawn from Collaboration of Businesses and Civil Society Organizations
By James E. Austin et al & Ezequiel Reficco, The Rockefeller Center Studies on Latin American Studies, Harvard Univerisity, 2004
It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter collaborations, because they form the cornerstone upon which alliances are built. By motivations, we mean the conscious
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Get Ready, Get Set: Starting Down the Road to Self-Financing
Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT), 2004 (free subscription requ'd)
Get Ready, Get Set is designed to help the staff and board of a nonprofit organization consider their options for self-financing. Get Ready, Get Set is a beginner-level handbook that helps you decide whether (and how) starting up or expanding a social enterprise can help your organization reach its financial and mission goals. Get Ready, Get Set will help you assess your readiness for social enterprise; identify enterprise opportunities that match your core values, mission, competencies and goals; and assess the feasibility of enterprise ideas and your capacity to undertake them.
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Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income. A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies
By Sharon Oster & Cynthia Massarsky, Jossey-Bass, 2004
Presents key issues for nonprofits interested in starting business ventures. It is divided in three sections: how to develop a business plan, find an attract capital, and implement the business plan. The fist part of this book starts with a presentation o
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Social Enterprise Typology
By Sutia Kim Alter, Virtue Ventures, 2004
Presents an overview of the place of Social Enterprise in the spectrum of different organizations, from philanthropic to commercial oriented. Proposes different typologies to analyze social enterprises, and key operational aspects that affect the success of these ventures. Finally, it illustrates some models of social enterprise with case studies in Latin America.
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Forming Strategic Alliances
By Richard Steckel & Oster, Sharon M, Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies. Jossey-Bass. Part II No.10., 2004
Identifies business and sociocultural trends that promote strategic alliances between corporations and nonprofit organizations in the United States. Gives practical advice about identifying potential corporate partners and how to approach them.
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Meeting the Collaboration Challenge: Developing Strategic Alliances between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, 2002
A workbook designed to complement Austin’s book The Collaboration Challenge. It includes several practical tools such as worksheets and process instructions about how to prepare, plan, develop, and renew strategic alliances with businesses
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Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs
By J Gregory Dees & Peter Economy and Jed Emerson, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002
This is a complementary book to “Enterprising Nonprofits: a Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs.” It covers additional critical issues organized in two topics: (1) value creation and performance, and (2) addressing growth, change and earned income strategies. The first offers insights to identify the service value that an organization can provide, and explanations, practical examples and deep analysis of how to develop a strategic vision, to position the organization’s value, to compete and/or to cooperate with other nonprofits and corporations, to recruit and motivate employees, establish relationships with donors and community, to implement a performance evaluation system. The second topic explores various earned income strategies their risks and challenges, strategic alternatives to scaling up, and how to successfully implement changes in an organization.
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Innovations from the Field. A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon
By John K. Hatch & Sara Levine, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press, 2002
Describes over four-dozen innovations of microlending organizations in areas such as client products and services, financing, administration and governance, program evaluation and response to emergencies.
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Ensuring Impact: Reaching the Poorest While Building Financially Self-Sufficient Institutions, and Showing Improvement in the Lives of the Poorest Families
By Anton Simanowitz & Alice F. Walter. Chapter one, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press, 2002
Explores the trade-offs between reaching the poorest and achieving financial self-sufficiency, and how microfinance institutions can overcome them. Presents case studies of two nonprofit organizations, SHARE and CRECER.
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Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
By J. Gregory Dees & Peter Economy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001
Provides practical tools to help nonprofits to become social enterprises through the adoption of entrepreneurial behaviors and business techniques. Covers important concepts of effective social entrepreneurship such as defining the organization mission.
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Going Global Transforming Relief and Development NGOs
By Marc Lindenberg & Coralie Bryant, Kumarian Press Inc., 2001
Examines the way that globalization has impacted the work of international relief and development NGOs. Chapter 6, “The Promise of New Inter-Organizational and Inter-Sectoral Partnerships”, explores forms of collaboration emerging among relief and development nonprofits and private-sector organizations.
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Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success: the Guide to Strategy and Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
By Kevin P Kearns, Jossey-Bass, 2000
Defines an approach to strategic management for public and nonprofit organizations that borrows concepts from the business sector that are relevant and helpful, but is tempered by an understanding of the distinctive missions, contexts, and constituencies of public and nonprofit organizations. This strategic management approach focuses on the analysis of strategy formulation models, the understanding of the organizational environment, distinctive competencies and comparative advantages, and the identification and implementation of organizational strategies that advance its mission.
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The Collaboration Challenge. How Nonprofits and Business Succeed Through Strategic Alliances
By James E. Austin et al, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000
Analyses over fifteen strategic cross-sector collaborations between nonprofits and businesses. Studies how these alliances function in terms of partner’s needs and benefits, strategic fit, practical management issues, and general determinants of their effectiveness. From this study he presents an analytical framework to understand the nature and evolution of these cross-sector collaborations and how to create, build and manage successful partnerships.
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Making Money while Making a Difference: How to profit with a nonprofit partner
By Richard Steckel et al., High Tide Press, 1999
A guide for corporations who want to pursue successful strategic alliances with nonprofits includes types of alliances and strategies for their implementation.
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The Evolution of Nongovernmental Organizations Toward Financial Intermediation
By Otero, Maria.Chapter five & Rhyne, Elizabeth (eds)., The New World of Microenterprise Finance: Building Healthy Financial Institutions for the Poor. Part I No.5, 1994
Identifies the characteristics that NGOs should display in order to engage in financial intermediation. This transformation is considered one effective way for NGOs to achieve significant expansions in a sustainable way.
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Enterprising Nonprofits
By Greg Dees, Harvard Business Review, January, 1988
Analyses several options to raise additional funds available to nonprofits in United States. Hightlights its advantages, risks and challenges, in particular in terms of fulfill the organization social mission.
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