IA/LM 240 Social Entrepreneurship
Spring 2007

-Home
-Outline
-Definitions
-Resources
-Books
-Funding and Budgets
-Creating Effective Enterprise Pitches
-Enterprise Goal Creation
-Enterprise Concept Plan Contents

COURSE OUTLINE

SECTION 1  CONTEXT
• Definition of Social Entrepreneurship
            - Existing definitions
            - Creating your own definition
• Impact of Social Entrepreneurship
            - Types of social enterprises
            - Ways that social entrepreneurship has impact
                        * Economic
                        * Environmental
                        * Social service
                        * Social action
• Basic Economics
            - The power of markets
            - Incentives
            - Governments and economies
            - Productivity and human capital
            - Power of organized interests
            - Trade and globalization
            - Developmental economics
• Entrepreneurship Researching
            - Internet
            - Surveys
            - Market

SECTION 2  ENTERPRISE CREATION
• Making Meaning
            - How will your enterprise make the world a better place
            - Were do your passions lay
            - How will you increase the quality of life
• Business Models
            - Non Profit
            - For profit
• Enterprise Positioning
            - What do you do
            - What do you do for your customers
            - What makes your product/service better
            - What position in the market do you want your enterprise to occupy
 • Vision and Mission Statements
            - Purpose
            - Value
            - Creating them

 

 

 

SECTION 3  ENTERPRISE PLANING
• Idea for Enterprise
            - What problem does it solve
            - How does it solve it
• Frame work for Enterprise Plan
            - What it will do
            - How it will do it
            - Who does it benefit
            - Can it be viable
            - How will it be funded
• Enterprise Concept Plan
            - Details about the frame work for the enterprise
            - More on the “why” for the enterprise
            - Who and how will the enterprise be managed
• Business Plan
            - Details about the enterprise concept plan
            - The “When”
            - The “Where’s the Money”

 

SECTION 4  PRESENTING YOUR ENTERPRISE
• Pitches
            - Purposes
            - Creating them
• Power Point Presentations
            - Types
            - Purposes
            - Creating them
• Draft Promotional Materials
            - Business cards
            - Brochure
            - Frame work for web site

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