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What would you get if you combined an entrepreneur, a technologist, a financier, and a strategist/ecologist with an international chef, corporate lawyer, architect, and more? One such international leadership team created a new model of eco-development (economic and ecological) and introduced it with an array of on-the-ground programs into a village on the edge of one of India's original nine Project Tiger nature reserves. This book presents the story of this remarkable center. It argues that to save an endangered species, you have to save its environment, and to save those, you must "save" the people that live with them, by providing eco-sensitive ways to grow economically, without encroaching on the natural environment or helping poachers. This "Golden Triangle" model is put forth in this book that includes eco-development facts and figures, engaging "how-it-happened" vignettes, insights and lessons learned, and results - including a four-times increase in tiger numbers, generation of new base-of-pyramid businesses, fierce eco-protectiveness by local people, eager adoption of eco-technologies, and economic and social betterment. Scalable implications are provided for economic and ecological development worldwide.

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Available for the First Time: The Complete Social Entrepreneur's PlaybookCovers all three phases of the start-up to scale-up process, developed with reader feedback from "one of the more unusual ebook.experiments of the year" (ThinReads)Wharton professor Ian C. MacMillan and Dr. James Thompson, director of the Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program, provide a tough-love approach that significantly increases the likelihood of a successful social enterprise launch in the face of the high-uncertainty conditions typically encountered by social entrepreneurs.MacMillan and Thompson used their own systematic framework to publish The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook. To test the market, they offered the first phase in their start-up method (step 1) as a free ebook. Readers were invited to join The Social Entrepreneur's Advisory Group, and nearly 300 aspiring and active social entrepreneurs shared feedback that helped shape the complete edition of the book, which covers all three steps in the start-up to scale-up process.Based on this crowd-sourced feedback from readers of the free ebook and drawing on the authors' more than 26 years' combined experience developing and studying social enterprises in the field across Africa and in the United States, this new edition provides guidance for each phase:Phase One: Pressure Test Your Start-Up Idea. Based on the free ebook, this expanded section now includes advice on setting revenue and social impact goals, how to navigate the sociopolitical landscape, and how to develop a strong concept statement. In addition, MacMillan and Thompson provide advice on how to identify and test a proposed revenue-generating solution and define and segment your target population.Phase Two: Plan Your Social Enterprise. All new to this edition, this critical phase shows you how to frame and scope the venture, determine what it will take to actually deliver a sustainable enterprise, identify the key assumptions that have been made, and design checkpoints to test those assumptions before making major investments.Phase Three: Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise. Available for the first time in this edition, you will learn how to effectively launch your enterprise, manage upside potential and downside risk, and strategically scale up.Filled with accessible frameworks and tools, as well as inspiring stories of social entrepreneurs, The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook is a must-read for any aspiring or active social entrepreneur, as well as philanthropists, foundations, and nonprofits interested in doing more good with fewer resources.Includes access to downloadable planning documents, including user-friendly spreadsheets

Social entrepreneurship --- entrepreneurial management. --- entrepreneurship. --- foundations. --- funders. --- investors. --- nonprofits. --- philanthropists. --- social enterprise. --- social impact goals. --- sociopolitical landscape. --- start-ups.

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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists-those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism-the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities.Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists-including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers.Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.

Music trade --- Music --- Social aspects --- Local 257. --- Music City. --- Nashville artist activism. --- Nashville artists. --- Nashville musician community. --- Nashville musician. --- Nashville musicians. --- Nashville. --- artist activism. --- artist activist. --- artist activists. --- artist-producer. --- artistic freedom. --- artistic social enterprise. --- artistic social entrepreneurs. --- arts trade union. --- arts trade unionism. --- arts trade unionists. --- career pathways. --- collective action. --- collegial interpersonal relations. --- contemporary generation. --- cross-promotion. --- enterprising artists. --- entrepreneurial artists. --- indie entrepreneurial music. --- individual action. --- intergenerational peer mentoring. --- labor organizations. --- major record labels. --- music career. --- music industry. --- musicians. --- peer community. --- peer mentoring. --- policy implications. --- popular music. --- self-determination. --- self-instruction. --- social enterprise. --- social entrepreneur. --- social entrepreneurs. --- sociological theory. --- sociology of work. --- subjective orientations. --- trade union reformer. --- transformative generation. --- union activists. --- urban occupational communities.

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In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. These SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common good in today's economies and societies. We tend to consider as good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly shared willingness to develop appropriate although sometimes embryonic--responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised market competition--all factors that may hinder efforts in the search for the common good-has to be addressed as well. The second of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Latin America will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and other categories of people who want to acquire a broad understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world.

Social entrepreneurship --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General --- Entrepreneurship --- Social entrepreneurship - Latin America - Case studies --- Argentina --- Bolivia --- Brazil --- Chile --- Development Economics --- Ecuador --- Innovation Management --- Latin America --- Mexico --- Non-profit Organisation --- Non-profit Sector Management --- Peru --- Social Enterprise --- Social Entrepreneurship --- Social Innovation --- Social Policy --- South America

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The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively constitute up to 30 percent of the labour market both locally and across North America. Transition to Common Work is the essential text about The Working Centre-its beginnings thirty years ago, the lessons learned, and the myriad ways in which its strategies and innovations can be adapted by those who share its goals. The Working Centre focuses on creating access-to-tools projects rather than administrative layers of bureaucracy. This book highlights the core philosophy behind the centre's decentralized but integrated structure, which has contributed to the creation of affordable services. Underlying this approach are common-sense innovations such as thinking about virtues rather than values, developing community tools with a social enterprise approach, and implementing a radically equal salary policy. For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums of "poverty relief" into the exciting world of community building.

Poor --- Social work with the unemployed --- Unemployed --- Community development --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Unemployment --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Services for --- Economic conditions --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Working Centre (Kitchener, Ont.) --- Recycle Cycles. --- access to tools. --- commons. --- community tools. --- contingent labour. --- decentralist and integrated. --- distributive web. --- liberation. --- local democracy. --- overdevelopment. --- philosophy of work. --- producerism. --- psychiatric outreach. --- reciprocity. --- salary policy. --- social enterprise. --- social inclusion. --- substantive economics. --- urban agriculture. --- virtues.