Intro to Social Enterprises (Webinar 1 18 12)

RExO WebinarSocial Policy Research Associates

January 18, 2012

Social Enterprise as a Strategy to Help Sustain Your Program

Welcome!

2

Haydée CuzaTraining and Technical Assistance Specialist

Social Policy Research AssociatesOakland, CA

Submitting Questions

To submit a question or comment, type the question in the text box

Choose who you want to submit the question to by selecting their name from the drop-down menu in the “Start Chat with” field (default is “Everyone”)

Click the send button.

Your name, the text and your question will appear on your screen, indicating successful submission.

Chat Room

Send Button

Text Box

Drop-Down Menu

4

Who’s joined us today?

In the Chat Room, please type the following:

• The name of your organization.

• You location.

• One thing you would like to learn from today’s webinar.

Agenda

6

Presenter

7

Kristin WolffThinker, Doer, Aspiring RainmakerSocial Policy Research Associates

Oakland, CA

What is a Social Enterprise?

8

Not for Profit For Profit

Social Enterprise

Examples of Social Enterprises

9

Chat Activity

10

Name a social enterprise (or organization you think might be a social enterprise) from which

you have purchased a product or service?

Please type your answer in the chat box below.

Three Reasons Community Leaders Might Start a Social Enterprise

11

Why does this matter for our programs?

12

To overcome employment

challenges

Why does this matter for us?

To generate revenue &

diversify funding sources

13

Poll

14

Why Growing Interest in Social Enterprises ?

15

1902 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

• Muhammad Yunus & micro-

credit supported enterprise

• Ashoka• Echoing Green

• Omidyar Network• REDF

• Bill Strickland• Policy makers

• First E-ship Convening

• Skoll Foundation

• Yale-Goldman Sachs Prize

• SSIR launches Social Edge• Center for

Social Innovation• SOCAP

• Goodwill Industries

More Choices for Social Enterprises Today than ever Before

16

Please type your questions into the

chat pod.

17

Social Enterprise at St. Patrick Center

18

Nancy Box

19

Senior Director of Employment Services

St. Patrick Center’s McMurphy’s Grill & McMurphy’s

Express

St. Patrick CenterSt. Louis, MO

20

McMurphy’s

21

McMurphy’s Grill

22

Challenges

23

McMurphy’s Training Program

24

McMurphy’s Express

25

Common Challenges

26

Please type your questions into the

chat pod.

27

Jan DeYoung

28

Insert photo

DirectorSt. Patrick Center’s

BEGIN New Venture Center Small Business Incubator

BEGIN New Venture CenterSmall Business Incubator

29

History and Purpose

“While there are more than 1,100 incubator programs in the United States, this is the first incubator with a focus on the homeless.”

–Dinah Adkins, President & CEO, National Business Incubation Association

30

Incubator

31

What We Do & Why

32

BEGIN New Venture Center offers start-up and early-stage companies and nonprofits:

What the research says…

33

Our Businesses

34

Our Impact

35

What We Learned

36

Q & A

What are the MOST IMPORTANT steps you took to launch

your social enterprise program?

How did you identify partners to assist in

launching?

How and what kinds of funding were

you able to leverage?

What are the most significant barriers you

encountered to launching your

program?How did you address

them?

What are the other important

considerations in launching a social

enterprise?

Thank You!Presenter contact information

• Nancy Box, St. Patrick Center’s Mc Murphy’s Grill & Mc Murphy’s Express [email protected]

• Jan De Young, St. Patrick Center’s BEGIN New Venture Center Small Business [email protected]

• Kristin Wolff, Social Policy Research [email protected]

• Haydée Cuza, Social Policy Research [email protected]

43

Resources

Check out the RExO

Social Enterprise Reference

Guide

44

Upcoming Webinars

RExO Gen 3 Grantee Lessons LearnedThursday, February 2, 12:00-1:30 PM EST

Register now

45