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The social entrepreneur's handbook : how to start, build, and run a business that improves the world / Rupert Scofield.

By: Scofield, Rupert.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780071750295 (alk. paper); 0071750290 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Social entrepreneurship | Social responsibility of business | Entrepreneurship -- Moral and ethical aspects | New business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 658.4/08
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Identifying Your Constituency and Arranging Your Apprenticeship -- 2.The Big Idea and Finding a Mentor -- 3.We Few, We Happy Few: The Founding Fathers -- 4.Wanted: Resourceful Humans: Recruiting the Best Minds Money Can't Buy -- 5.Still Wanted: More Resourceful Humans: And the Interview Techniques to Find Them -- 6.Managing Them: On the Herding, Roping, and Hog-Tying of Cats -- 7.Continuing to Manage, and Staying in Touch -- 8.Leading Them: Finding Your Inner Andre Previn -- 9.The Private Pillar: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? -- 10.Private Pillar Pitfalls: Sponsorship Programs and Dealing with Donors -- 11.The Power of the Other Pillars: Public and Internal -- 12.Communication: From "Who?" to Wheaties -- 13.Your Organization's Structure and Business and Financial Models -- 14.Systems: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Systems! -- 15.Strategy: Getting Beyond "Everybody Go Long" -- 16.But It Used to Work So Well!: The Time and Place for Innovation -- 17.Governance by Dummies: Wise Counsel or Micromanagement by the Ignorant? -- 18.Humanitarians at the Gate: Surviving and Thriving in the Treacherous World of the Modern Nonprofit.
Summary: A hands-on guide for organizations to succeed in the exploding new field of social entrepreneurship, from one of its earliest leaders, President and CEO of microfinance giant FINCA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Identifying Your Constituency and Arranging Your Apprenticeship -- 2.The Big Idea and Finding a Mentor -- 3.We Few, We Happy Few: The Founding Fathers -- 4.Wanted: Resourceful Humans: Recruiting the Best Minds Money Can't Buy -- 5.Still Wanted: More Resourceful Humans: And the Interview Techniques to Find Them -- 6.Managing Them: On the Herding, Roping, and Hog-Tying of Cats -- 7.Continuing to Manage, and Staying in Touch -- 8.Leading Them: Finding Your Inner Andre Previn -- 9.The Private Pillar: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? -- 10.Private Pillar Pitfalls: Sponsorship Programs and Dealing with Donors -- 11.The Power of the Other Pillars: Public and Internal -- 12.Communication: From "Who?" to Wheaties -- 13.Your Organization's Structure and Business and Financial Models -- 14.Systems: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Systems! -- 15.Strategy: Getting Beyond "Everybody Go Long" -- 16.But It Used to Work So Well!: The Time and Place for Innovation -- 17.Governance by Dummies: Wise Counsel or Micromanagement by the Ignorant? -- 18.Humanitarians at the Gate: Surviving and Thriving in the Treacherous World of the Modern Nonprofit.

A hands-on guide for organizations to succeed in the exploding new field of social entrepreneurship, from one of its earliest leaders, President and CEO of microfinance giant FINCA.

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