Community Development Finance
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network

Creating Effective Partnerships
Strategic Employment Solutions

Creating Value through Customer Responsiveness

Foodshare Toronto

Developing a Business Plan

Saint Vincent DePaul Society and the Enterprise Foundation

Effective Strategies for Long Term Success
Vision Support Trading

Job Training Ventures
The Mill Centre at Dixon Hall

Licensing and Franchising
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Market Assessment
Brooklyn Justice Counsel

Portfolio Analysis
Canadian Society of Association Executives

Pricing
Community Catalyst

Reasons to set-up a For-Profit Subsidiary
Teachers Support Network

Strategic Planning
Sylvan Beach Foundation

Strategies for Success
Wearmouth Community Development Trust

Other Resources for Case Studies

New Social Entrepreneurs

REDF produced New Social Entrepreneurs: The Success, Challenge, and Lessons of Non-Profit Enterprise Creation in 1996. This book provides five in-depth case studies of social purpose enterprises and seventeen social purpose enterprise case summaries.  The book is available for free as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Powering Social Change

A comprehensive overview of social enterprise in the United States, this report by Community Wealth Ventures includes essays from leading practitioners and funders, case studies highlighting enterprising nonprofit organizations, practical lessons for organizations seeking to diversify their revenue streams, and survey results from 72 nonprofit organizations representing 105 ventures and partnerships.


The Social Enterprise Sourcebook
This book, by Jerr Boschee, contains journalistic profiles of 14 nonprofits that have successfully started business ventures. If you would like to see the table of contents, download free copies of the introduction or specific chapters, or purchase a copy of the book click on the title above.