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ISBN: 1606495178 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press,
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This book provides a guided deep dive into the early stages of venture development of social entrepreneurship. It introduces concepts that provide important insights necessary for social venture success. It introduces a set of entrepreneurial tools designed for the unique set of challenges faced in selecting and designing social entrepreneurial ventures. With this book as a guide, the reader can develop a feasible venture concept and communicate it effectively.
Social entrepreneurship. --- social entrepreneurship --- feasibility analysis --- entrepreneur --- social entrepreneur --- theory of change --- logic model --- public policy analysis --- nonprofit
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)
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In the last few years, design thinking has emerged as an effective method of innovation in business management. It is a creative human-centered, experimental and interdisciplinary approach, which gives managers the opportunity to generate radical new ideas adapted to their users’ needs. More recently, this method has been adopted in other fields, such as the public, the healthcare and the third sectors. The diffusion of this method is now reaching also social enterprises, i.e. organisations that combine economic activity and social purposes to create valuable social impact for communities. Indeed, design thinking could be a promising approach to improve their long-term sustainability through innovation. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the potential of design thinking for social enterprises from the perspective of social entrepreneurs. Its guiding research question is: “how social entrepreneurs perceive the added value of design thinking for their organisation?”. Our hypothesis is that design thinking may provide added value regarding the social mission, the financial sustainability and the competitiveness of social enterprises. This study follows a qualitative research approach: it was conducted through interviews and online questionnaires with a series of social entrepreneurs in Scotland. They all participated to the “Boost by Design” programme in February/March 2017 developed by “Creative Dundee”. This project introduced design thinking methods to 13 social enterprises through participatory workshops. These interviews were completed with observation of the programme implementation during a traineeship at “Creative Dundee” in the same period. The findings of our enquiry show that social entrepreneurs consider that design thinking is both accessible and useful. It enables them to be more creative and make them realise their users are a resource for improvement and innovation in their organisation. Hence, these results support the hypothesis that design thinking could help social enterprises to become more sustainable in the long term, especially considering their social mission, their financial sustainability and their competitiveness. The thesis proposes a model that summarizes the main results and thus contributes to better understand the potential of design thinking for social enterprises, while highlighting the new avenues for further research.
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ISBN: 1524762857 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
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At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, and models. But 10 years in, desperately unhappy and morally bankrupt, he asked himself, "What would the exact opposite of my life look like?" Walking away from everything, Harrison spent the next 16 months on a hospital ship in West Africa and discovered his true calling. In 2006, with no money and less than no experience, Harrison founded charity: water. Today, his organization has raised over $300 million to bring clean drinking water to more than 8.2 million people around the globe. Now Harrison recounts the twists and turns that built charity: water into one of the most trusted and admired nonprofits in the world. Renowned for its 100% donation model, bold storytelling, imaginative branding, and radical commitment to transparency, charity: water has disrupted how social entrepreneurs work while inspiring millions of people to join its mission of bringing clean water to everyone on the planet within our lifetime. Harrison outlines how to build a better charity, a better business, and a better life -- proving it's never too late to make a change.
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