Social Enterprise
Franchising Entrepreneur Training
A social franchise offers business education and mentorship to help the world’s poorest workers maximize their earning potential.
A social franchise offers business education and mentorship to help the world’s poorest workers maximize their earning potential.
Jibu franchises make clean drinking water affordable for Africa’s booming urban populations and provide economic opportunity to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
The massive growth of commercial franchises like McDonald’s offers inspiration for scaling social impact. Although still very young, social sector franchising is spawning an array of successful enterprises that offer lessons for further expansion.
Project ECHO developed a revolutionary model for helping doctors and clinicians in New Mexico to treat hepatitis C. It spread around the world to address numerous chronic diseases. With the COVID-19 pandemic, it found its moment.
Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.
Lessons learned at Friends of the Children about maintaining stability in service during this crisis and the next one.
Nonprofits that wish to integrate revenue-generating activities into their operations must think strategically about who will benefit from them and how they will further their social mission. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.
Nonprofits have near-limitless metrics they can measure, but the key to success is identifying, monitoring, and responding to the few that really matter.
Two organizing principles for moving beyond brand and enabling other organizations to advance the social change your organization seeks.
Why one successful youth program resisted the urge to expand too quickly.