Principles, Practices, & Strategies for Emerging Social Entrepreneurs

Monday, June 22, 2009

Principles of Social Entrepreneurship

9:00-10:00 a.m.

• Welcome & Introduction
• Certificate Program Overview
• Course Overview
• Readings
• Logistics
• Introductions
• Course Grading and Evaluation
• Goals for the day

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Social Entrepreneurship Defined
• World Changing Social Enterprises
• Comparing and Contrasting Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Class Projects: What is expected?
• Case Study for credit-seeking students
• Entrepreneurship Project vs. Strategic Consulting

12:00-1:30

• Leadership Luncheon:  Intrapreneurship with ???

1:30-3:00

• Characteristics of Effective Social Entrepreneurs
• Self Assessment
• Are you a social innovator and/or entrepreneur?
• Do you envision becoming one?
• What knowledge and skills do you need to develop to be an effective social entrepreneur?

3:00-3:15        Break

3:15-4:30

• Strategic Innovation and Focused Creativity

4:30-5:00        Networking Time and Break

5:00-6:30

• Evening Leadership Presentation:    Strategic Innovation and Focused Creativity

 
6:30 p.m.        Dinner

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ecological Economics: Redefining Profit and Creating Genuine Wealth

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9:00-12:00

• What is Ecological Economics?
• The Scarce Resources: Laws of thermodynamics, energy, ecosystem goods, ecosystem services; information
• What is the economic problem?
• Scale, allocation, distribution, efficiency, and desirable ends.
• What's the desirable end?  Human welfare?
• How do we allocate and distribute resources efficiently to achieve the desirable ends?  And, at what scale?

12:00-1:30

Leadership Luncheon:  Envisioning Sustainable Communities and Re-envisioning our Economic System with Bob Costanza, Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

1:30-3:00

• Sustainability, justice and efficiency
• Exercise: Public goods game
• Allocation matrix

3:00-3:15        Break

3:15-4:30

• Exercise: Fitting the supply chain into the allocation matrix
• Efficient allocation: the role of business and government

4:30-5:00        Networking Time and Break

5:00-6:30

• Evening Leadership Panel:   Economic Perspectives – Neoclassical vs. Ecological Economics with Arthur Woolf and Joshua Farley (Moderated by  )

6:30 p.m.        Dinner

 

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Society, Sector-Bending Enterprise, & Collaborative Management

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• A Transitional Era – understanding the changing landscape politically, economically, environmentally, socially, locally and globally
• The changing demographics locally, nationally and internationally
• The "professionalization of everything" and the co-opting of communities and citizens (e.g. John McKnight's work)
• Social Movements and Social Policy
• Implications of these changes
• Recognizing opportunity in a time of change
• Sector Bending Enterprise Structures
• Social Entrepreneurship Permeating Sectors of Society (Government, Corporate and Voluntary)
• Organizational Structures
• Nonprofit organizations (examples)
• Charitable organizations (examples)
• Incorporated or limited liability company (example)
• L3C
• Unincorporated company (example)
• Joint Venture (example)
• Partnership (example)
• Overview of Finance & Funding Models – traditional philanthropy, venture capital, social enterprise, funding/support gap, socially responsible investing, banks, venture capitalists & markets

 

12:00 - 1:30        

• Leadership Luncheon with Facilitating Cross Sector Partnerships, The William J. Clinton Foundation

 

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

• Unique Challenges for Social Enterprises
• Financial barriers: The role of banks and credit in financing social ventures
• Legal barriers: corporate charter law
• Market barriers
• Role of Government and public policy
• Intergovernmental relations

 

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.

 

3:15 – 4:30 p.m.

• Collaborative Management

 

4:30-5:00        Networking Time and Break

5:00-6:30

• Evening Leadership Presentation:  Leading Collaboratively with Chris Koliba, Michael Gurdon, and Clare Ginger

Thursday, June 25, 2009

 The Bottom Line and Social Return On Investment

 

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Identifying your “shareholders”
• Accounting for real wealth – the community’s human, social, natural and built capital
• Origins of modern accounting system
• Rediscovering the wisdom of Luca Pacioli, 16^th Century Italian monk and mathematician, “father” of double-entry bookkeeping (accounting) in the Renaissance.
• Measuring Social Return on Investment

           

12:00-1:30     

• Leadership Luncheon with Are You Properly Packaged? Overcoming Sales and Marketing Challenges, Social Venture Network

 

1:30-4:30 p.m.           

• Sustainable Funding: Difficulties of maintaining focus on core mission when organizations are funded by an array of charitable sources with a lot of strings attached.
• Can for-profit and not-for-profit social enterprise co-exist?

• Potential for conflicts between social mission and need for profit and financial performance objectives.
• Resources for effective social innovation and change
• Social Marketing

 

4:30-5:00        Networking Time and Break

5:00-6:30

• Evening Leadership Panel or Presentation:    Investing in Socially Beneficial Ventures with Vermont Community Foundation, etc. (Moderated by  )

 
 

Friday, June 26, 2009