Building a Successful Social Venture : A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I BACKGROUND -- Chapter 1 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Theories of Social Pro gress -- Conceptual Roots -- Comparing Approaches to Poverty Reduction -- Government and Philanthropy -- The Role of Multinational Corporations: C. K. Prahalad's Thesis -- The Informal Economy -- Market Imperfections and Approaches to Poverty Reduction -- Advantages of Bottom-Up Innovation through Social Ventures -- To Recap -- Background Resources -- Chapter 2 The Market at the Base of the Pyramid -- The Size of the BOP Market -- Poverty as a Concentrated Problem -- Problems and Opportunities at the BOP -- The MDGs: Improving Life Choices -- The SDGs -- Large-Scale Systems Thinking -- Market-Creation Requirements for Serving Marginalized Populations -- Value Creation -- Market Creation -- To Recap -- Background Resources -- Chapter 3 Paradigms for Social Venture Business Plans -- The Purpose of Business Planning -- 1. Gaining Venture Capital Funding -- 2. Developing an Operational Business Plan -- 3. Business Model Generation -- 4. Formulating Business Strategies (The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook) -- The GSBI Paradigm: An Alternative for Building Better Social Ventures -- What Is Unique about Social Ventures? -- Social Venture Snapshots -- Grameen Shakti -- Sankara Eye Care Institutions -- GSBI Innovators -- To Recap -- Background Resources -- PART II MANAGING A SUSTAINABLE/SCALABLE SOCIAL BUSINESS -- Chapter 4 Mission, Opportunity, Strategies -- Process -- Mission Statement -- Opportunity Statement -- Key Strategies -- Social Venture Snapshots -- Mission, Opportunities, and Strategies for Grameen Shakti -- Mission, Opportunities, and Strategies for Sankara -- GSBI Innovator Fundacion Paraguaya Self-Sustaining Agriculture Schools (SSAS) -- To Recap -- Exercises -- Background Resources