SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY & SCALE-UP
WE NEED YOUR SOCIAL ENTEPRISE STORIES! Want to share a story about a sustainable international enterprise development initiative / social enterprise improving income and providing benefits to many low-income people? The SEEP Network, Beyond Profit and other partners need your stories about growth, scale, and transition to highlight both organizational successes and challenges. Three selected stories will be published by Beyond Profit, and the authors will win an oppurtunity to present at the Social Enterprise learning symposium at the SEEP Network annual conference in November 2010. Submission guidelines available here. Submission Deadline is on September 10th, 2010
The Value initiative at The SEEP Network advances sustainable economic development. A core component of the initiative is the Practitioner Learning Program (PLP) on Business Planning for Sustainability and Scale-up. Its goal is to leverage the power of the marketplace to enable social enterprises to viably grow to scale and serve/benefit large numbers of low-income people. The activities undertaken by SEEP to address this challenge include:
With five social enterprise partners, the SEEP Network is synthesizing the best approaches in social enterprise development. Our partners are actively seeking funding and investment to advance their social enterprise missions. Please consult their respective profiles below: |
OUR PARTNERS
SDCAsia |
Location: Manila & Davao, the Philippines SDCAsia is an NGO with extensive expertise in helping low income people create livelihoods. Its business, Marina Gana Vida, helps low income coastal communities offering micro-franchises of sustainable fish farms for indigenous local fish species following ecological best practices. These new business owners are:
The goal is to reach 10 communities; 5,000 households
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ECDI
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Location: Karachi, Pakistan ECDI is an NGO specializing in value chain development and empowering women in rural Pakistan. ECDI recently enabled 8,000 marginalized women get their unstitched hand woven fabrics to major markets through collective buying houses and mobilized sales agents. Its new initiative, “Beyond the veil” seeks to:
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Fair Trade Forum- India
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Location: New Delhi, India Fair Trade Forum – India is a membership network of crafts associations promoting the interests of micro entrepreneurs and marginalized small scale producers. The network is 75 and growing representing more than 90,000 artisans.
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SELCO
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Location: Bangalore, India SELCO is an innovative social enterprise that provides sustainable energy solutions to under-served households and businesses across India. It has provided sustainable energy products to more than 100,000 rural households.
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LabourNet
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Location: Bangalore, India LabourNet provides a platform for India’s vast informal working sector to connect with potential employers in urban areas. LabourNet provides informal sector workers:
LabourNet has linked more than 30,000 to employment; its client list grows daily.
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OUR PROJECT FACILITATOR
Andrew (Drew) Tulchin
Managing Partner - Social Enterprise Associates
Drew Tulchin draws upon more than a dozen years of professional experience in the for-profit, non-profit, public and banking sectors, with consulting in more than 30 countries. Tulchin has helped launch 15 social enterprises. His work has led to raising more than $100 million for “triple bottom line” efforts. For example, his co-written business plan for Prisma Finance at the Global Social Venture Competition received a cash prize and was used to raise $1.2 million in private equity. He has written and presented extensively on social enterprise, business planning, social impact, and raising socially motivated capital, among other topics. For more information on SEEP’s business planning and scale-up efforts, please contact him at Drew@socialenterprise.net