
Sustainable: As a key driver for social sector funding, social enterprise sustainability and social venture capability is the single most important factor to master as a social entrepreneur…
Acquiring: Acquisition and mergers are a common business practice in the social sector...
Organizational Development: There are few business sectors on the planet that are fraught with such significant business risk than the rapidly emerging social sector...
Leadership and Governance: Just as in the mainstream private sector, governance and leadership of social enterprise is critical in safeguarding the mission and vision of the social enterprise...
Strategy: Social enterprises depend on solid business strategies to provide direction and guidelines to achieve a desired end state for the enterprise and it’s stakeholders...
Finance and Accounting: Social enterprises have unique finance and accounting demands that require creative solutions due to limited financial resources...
Impact and Investing: Impact investing is becoming increasingly more important as a proponent for social enterprises...
Capital Development: In the complex landscape of a wide array of funding mechanisms in the broad definition Impact Investing, securing financing is a daunting hurdle for social entrepreneurs...
Technology and Management: Technology and Management is essential for social enterprises especially those that operate their own Information Technology (IT) support...
Operational Value: The operational value in social enterprise is the value from the assets owned by the enterprise...
Scalable Business: As an emerging sector over the past decade, successful business models have been fragmented and isolated..
Culture and Methods: A business culture is the set of values and beliefs within an organization and it is key to the overall business strategy...
Evidence: Social entrepreneurs must continuously seek to measure the impact of their organization...
Research Questions: Developing research questions are essential to measuring the impact of a social enterprise...
Data and Evaluation: Social enterprise evaluation is a foundation to organizational learning, performance improvement, accountability and overall long term intended impact...
Data Synthesis: After a social enterprise presents evidence, develops research questions and evaluates data, they must turn that data into insights...
Recognizable: Social enterprises aspire to gain recognition from society to garnish support for their organization and their cause...
Marketing: Social enterprises aspire to gain recognition from society to garnish support for their organization and their cause...
Media Relations: Social enterprises aspire to gain recognition from society to garnish support for their organization and their cause...
Network: A network is a key success for any social impact organization...
Ethical Behavior: Ethical behavior refers to the ways in which an organization operates with the common moral principles of integrity and honesty...
Ethics: Ethics is how an organization puts policies and procedures in effect to comply with the regulations, policies and laws that govern business...
Transformation: The social impact sector aims to transform society with innovative and unique ideas to improve social and environmental issues...
Motivator: Social enterprises influence society by acting as motivators to transform social and environmental issues...
Leader: Social entrepreneurs are innovative thinkers that are posed with the question of how to solve the world’s most challenging social and environmental issues...
Global Social Impact: The mission of a social enterprise is to create innovative and transformative ideas that will have a positive impact on society at large...
Innovation: Among the early success stories in social entrepreneurship little exposure has been given to bridging concepts of the innovation theory to innovative practice...
Design Thinking: Design Thinking is a method of problem solving and solution seeking that employs a human-centered approach in business development...
Policy Shifts: Policy shifts refer to the change in a set of ideas that govern a social enterprise...
Social Policy and Planning: Social Policy is about doing something for the good of the people...
Social Policy Development: Social Policy is developed in order to define how a social enterprise is going to conduct business for the good of the people..
Legislative Planning: Social Policy is developed in order to define how a social enterprise is going to conduct business for the good of the people...