Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur (Social Entrepreneurship Series)

Provides practicing social entrepreneurs, whether nonprofit or for-profit, with a guiding framework and practical recommendations for scaling. It is filled with ideas and examples to make it easier for practitioners to make major strides in resolving serious social problems involving, poverty, health, education, and the environment. The Field Of Social Entrepreneurship Continues To Grow By Leaps And Bounds As Innovative Entrepreneurs Find New Ways To Create A Positive Social Impact On Their Community. More Often Than Not These Ventures Find It Difficult To Expand Their Initial Concepts Into New Environments. As Funding For Social Programs On A Government Level Tightens, The Ability For Social Programs To Broaden And Deepen Their Impact While Maintaining Financial Stability Has Never Been More Important. This Goal Is Only Achievable When Good Intentions Are Combined With Comprehensive Analysis And Planning That Takes All Aspects Of A Venture's Ecosystem Into Consideration. Paul N. Bloom, A Professor Of Social Entrepreneurship At Duke University's Fuqua School Of Business, Explores The Key Components That Any Social Entrepreneur Needs To Consider When Approaching The Challenge Of Scaling. Here Bloom Explains The Scalers Model, Which Stresses That Successful Scaling Requires Organizational Capabilities In Seven Areas: Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-building, Lobbying, Earningsgeneration, Replicating, And Stimulating Market Forces. Rich With Numerous Examples Of Social Entities That Have Developed These Capabilities, Scaling Your Social Venture Provides The Tools To Help Social Entrepreneurs Take Their Venture To The Next Level. -- Book Jacket. On Your Mark, Get Set, Scale? -- Developing A Scaling Strategy That Fits Your Ecosystem -- Staffing: Building Your Human Resources Capability -- Communicating: Achieving Buy-in From Key Stakeholders -- Alliance-building: Creating Synergies With Others -- Lobbying: Using Advocacy To Create Social Change Opportunities -- Earnings-generation: Attracting And Replenishing Financial Resources -- Replicating: Creating Evidence And Systems To Support More Of The Same -- Stimulating Market Forces: Getting Incentives To Work For You -- Putting It All Together: Embracing Contingencies And Complexity. Paul N. Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [195]-202) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-6 On Your Mark, Get Set, Scale?....Pages 7-32 Developing a Scaling Strategy That Fits Your Ecosystem....Pages 33-52 Staffing: Building Your Human Resources Capability....Pages 53-68 Communicating: Achieving Buy-In from Key Stakeholders....Pages 69-84 Alliance-Building: Creating Synergies with Others....Pages 85-107 Lobbying: Using Advocacy to Create Social Change Opportunities....Pages 109-122 Earnings-Generation: Attracting and Replenishing Financial Resources....Pages 123-137 Replicating: Creating Evidence and Systems to Support More of the Same....Pages 139-153 Stimulating Market Forces: Getting Incentives to Work for You....Pages 155-170 Putting It All Together: Embracing Contingencies and Complexity....Pages 171-193 Back Matter....Pages 195-208