Scaling Your Social Venture Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur [Hardcover]

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.Introduction 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

Finally, sound and genuinely useful guidance for social entrepreneurs serious about delivering meaningful results. Scaling Your Social Venture offers a model that's as practical as it is motivating, providing leaders with what they need to build stronger, better organizations - organizations able to scale their impact! - Sally Osberg, President & CEO, Skoll Foundation

There is a growing movement worldwide to create entrepreneurial ventures that have impact on some of our societies' most difficult problems. Yet precious few ventures live up to those expectations. Too many fall far short of attaining their goals - not because they are not passionate enough, or ambitious enough - but because the complexity of scaling a social venture is fraught with multiple and simultaneously appearing challenges. Paul Bloom has written an enormously useful book that is essential reading for those social ventures that dream big. - Dr. Pamela Hartigan, director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School -The University of Oxford