Finding Evidence of Impact for Social Enterprises If you’re planning to launch a new social enterprise, or scaling a successful venture, you may be asked by investors and funders to demonstrate impact. But with product development and customer acquisition to worry about, you may not have the time or experience…

What We Heard at Total Impact The Total Impact Conference in Philadelphia was a new convening hosted by the Good Capital Project in partnership with Impact PHL. …

Using Stakeholder Theory to Understand Impact and Strategy The concept of stakeholders has become common across sectors as a contrast to the traditional, profit-driven “shareholder” view of organizations. Considering your stakeholders allows you to think more broadly and critically about impact and social responsibility. More specifically, you can’t measure the…

If you’re starting a social enterprise or nonprofit, you’ll naturally focus on the impact you plan to have. You’ll predict the effects of your work based on research and past successes in your field, and you’ll imagine the positive outcomes that motivate you to succeed. You’ll also, however, have to…

When social entrepreneurs launch businesses with the goal of creating impact, they have to determine how their business model connects to their mission. They must decide what the business does on a daily basis, how the business makes money, and how the operations and cost structure relate to the impact. …

Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Classify the Impacts of your Social Enterprise You’re launching a social enterprise. You run a high-impact non-profit. Or you work at a for-profit corporation, but want to think more critically and strategically about proactive, positive impact. You want to do “good” — have…