Social Venture Network

Details of other comparable models:

1. Social Venture Network: http://svn.org

Social Venture Network connects, supports and inspires business leaders and social entrepreneurs in expanding practices that build a just and sustainable economy. It also connects you to a growing community of innovative business leaders and social entrepreneurs to help you improve your business, enhance your leadership, and expand your impact.

Their model is different to SoJo. They foster active collaborations among their members to create new ideas, partnerships and solutions. Besides, they engage members holistically, supporting the entire person and develop both personal and professional leadership.

- They have Social Venture Institutes where SVI offer emerging leaders of socially responsible businesses and innovative nonprofits a forum in which to share their business problems and receive expert advice from leading members of Social Venture Network. SVI provides an interactive and practical way for socially conscious entrepreneurs to explore ways to succeed. The combination of high-quality mentors, a confidential and supportive environment, and a practical problem-solving format provides participants with a rich portfolio of skills, a plan to grow their socially responsible businesses, and a network of contacts to support their journey.

The format is:

Speakers and respondents, who are socially responsible entrepreneurs themselves, engage participants in business problems around four themes:

"Business Financing: Raising Equity and Debt Capital"

"Are You Properly Packaged? Overcoming Sales and Marketing Challenges"

"Managing Organization Change: Human Resources"

"Management Transitions Strategic Growth: Taking the Next Step"

Innovative tools and business methods are explored in the following sessions:

Case studies where participants present a specific challenge and receive invaluable feedback

Speakers share their own business pitfalls and advice on how to avoid them

Small group business problem-solving sessions

- They also offer a Sustainable Solutions New Program, which showcases innovative ways SVN members are leading the way to create a just and sustainable economy through social enterprise.

To affiliate SVI ii is necessary to apply, and pay an annual fee of 600$. Be member includes the following benefits:

• $400 discount on every SVN Conference registration

• Waived fees to SVN Local Gatherings

• Promotional support via SVN’s blog and newsletters, and additional exposure via social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)

• Invitations to Social Venture Institutes

• Opportunities to receive peer advice through SVN’s One-on-One Advisors program

• Inclusion in the SVN Products & Services Directory, circulated to all members and available to the public

• Special discounts and offers from SVN member companies through our Member Discount program

• A subscription to SVN’s monthly e-mail newsletter, the Networker

• An "SVN Affiliate" website badge

2. Harvard Business School: http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/

They have the following offers for organizations: http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/organizations/attend-executive-education.html

- HBS offers six focused Social Enterprise Executive Education programs ( from 3 to 6 days) each year, three targeted toward nonprofit leaders, two for corporate leaders, and one for teams of education leaders within urban public school districts. Social Enterprise Executive Education programs feature a wide variety of management cases and materials.

The prices of these programs vary from $3.600 to $5.000.

On the other hand, they offer for alumni:

- The Social Enterprise Initiative, in collaboration with Alumni Career Services and Baker Library, provides resources and support to assist alumni pursuing careers in social enterprise. They offer additional sources of information via the Social Enterprise Industry Research Guide.

Harvard Business Review offer a lot of sources of information like cases, articles, audios, books: http://hbr.org/search/Social%20Enterprise/0?refinement=4294841678

They sell cases on social entrepreneurship for $6.95 each, books from $3.99 to $45, audios from $25 to $125…

They also offer an MBA Experience: http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/mba-experience/required-curriculum.html

The Required Curriculum incorporates social enterprise cases and topics in several courses ranging from finance to entrepreneurship. As a result, all students learn about social enterprise related topics and considerations from various functional perspectives.

3. Social Enterprise Alliance: https://www.se-alliance.org

Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is the champion for social enterprise in the United States. Our aim is for social enterprise to reach its full potential as a force for positive social change, in service to the common good. To achieve this purpose, we provide social enterprises with the tools and resources they need to succeed, and work on building an optimal environment in which they can thrive.

We serve our membership of more than 900 social enterprises, service providers, investors, corporations, public servants, academics and researchers by: providing information, research, best practices and building capacity; telling the stories and aggregating the impact of social enterprises; creating a fertile social enterprise ecosystem via advocacy and awareness building; and building thriving local social enterprise communities and national networks.

Membership level and prices: https://www.se-alliance.org/membership-levels

This is their knowledge center: http://toolbelt.se-alliance.org .

seToolbelt is an open content resource hub that helps social entrepreneurs plan, launch, manage, and grow successful social enterprises.

4. Social Enterprise Knowledge Network: http://www.sekn.org/cms/

The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) is a network of collaboration among ten of the most prestigious business schools in Iberoamerica, which hold, as strategic partners, the Harvard Business School and the Avina Foundation. Our mission is to push back the frontiers of the knowledge and practice of social projects through joint research, shared learning, and case centered teaching, and strengthening the capacities of management training institutions for servicing their communities. SEKN is a network of economic impact that aims to generate and disseminate information on social enterprising in Iberoamerica, which in turn may transform the current and future leaders of social enterprises.

5. DUKE & CASE: http://www.caseatduke.org/mba/

Social Entrepreneurship & the Duke MBA: A research and education center based at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, CASE (Centre for the Advancement of Social Enterprise) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.

6. Social Enterprise UK (SEUK): http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/advice-support/social-enterprises

“There's lots of information on our website for people thinking about setting up a social Enterprise. We've also got advice about using the Social Value Act to win public sector contracts, free materials you can use to promote your social enterprise status, and about measuring your social impact.”

The access to some information is free. However, you can be member for £75 per year and have these benefits:

- Save money with member offers that pay for your membership again and again

- Display your membership to SEUK through your member badge

- Be the first to know about news and opportunities in the sector via our member-only bulletins

- Network, learn and improve your skills at free and discounted events

- Start and grow your social enterprise with our advice, information and support

- Access special member rates on our tailored consultancy services

- Raise your profile through our website, partner organisation networks and coverage in the mainstream media

- Promote your organisation in our general newsletter and member mailings

http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/membership → more info about fees

7. Kellogg Social Entreprise: (PRECIO SOLICITADO) http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/departments/seek/about.aspx

Social Enterprise reflects the converging challenges that managers face today as they strive to be socially responsible global leaders in their chosen fields. Kellogg created the Social Enterprise program in 2005 to provide a rigorous, relevant experience for students interested in the intersection between management and society across all organizations and industries. Social Enterprise is focused on building leadership skills and awareness to help Kellogg graduates be socially responsible global leaders.

8. ASHOKA U: http://ashokau.org

Ashoka U catalyzes social innovation in higher education through a global network of entrepreneurial students, faculty and community leaders.

Curriculum Guide: Looking for a resource to help improve current courses on social entrepreneurship, develop new ones, and identify how your faculty and university can make its own unique contribution to social entrepreneurship education? The Curriculum Guide is an outline of the current state of Social Entrepreneurship syllabi, promising approaches and areas for improvement, and includes 10 exemplary syllabi. (Price: $199)

The 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook: It provides a comprehensive look at social entrepreneurship education and is an effective tool for advancing social entrepreneurship for your students, on your campus, and for the local community. (Price: $75)

The Social Entrepreneurship Series: Each DVD shares the insights and expertise of some of the world’s most inspiring social entrepreneurs about their area of expertise. (Price: $68)

9. School of International Service (SIS):

http://www.american.edu/sis/socialenterprise/index.cfm

SIS has launched a school-wide Social Enterprise Program. This is a two years program, designed to assist you in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and mindset necessary to launch a new social entrepreneurial venture or play a key leadership role in an existing one.

10. Economics Unplugged: http://www.economicsunplugged.com/myfiles/PEACH%20SE%20Biz%20Planning.pdf

This is a FREE Curriculum to develop a social enterprise business plan. The purpose of this manual is to provide people who have multi-barriers to employment with the information, skills and motivation they need to make a revenue-generating project into a sustainable social enterprise.

11. The Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School:

http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/home

The Social Enterprise Program (SEP) at Columbia Business School provides a framework for students to think in broader terms about their role in business and society, and prepares them with the knowledge and experience to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Students develop a perspective on how to apply business skills to social enterprise endeavours and align personal and professional values in careers that result in social benefits to a broader community. The curriculum explores social enterprise within four focus areas: Public and Nonprofit Management; International Development and Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.

12. UNLTD: http://unltd.org.uk/about_unltd/

UnLtd is the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK and offers the largest such network in the world. UnLtd resources hundreds of individuals each year through its core Awards programme. UnLtd operates a unique model by investing directly in individuals and offering a complete package of resources; from Awards of funding, to ongoing advice, networking and practical support.

They have some resources categories for free: getting started, finance, legal, marketing, mentoring, growing your venture…

http://unltd.org.uk/news/resources/

13. HULT International Business School

http://www.hult.edu/en/programs/master/social-entrepreneurship/

This master in Social Entrepreneurship is a highly practical program focused on how to apply business skills to important global social problems. Learn how to deploy innovative business solutions to large-scale social issues. The program gives you the skills necessary to engage in successful issue-advocacy, problem-solving innovation, and project development.

Master fee: $41.300

14. Social Entreprise Institute:

http://www.northeastern.edu/sei/resources/open-source-curriculum/

We are an “open door” institution. All of our curriculum materials, case studies, syllabi and supporting documents are available for use with all academic institutions around the world.

15. Yale:

http://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/our-centers/program-social-enterprise/programs

The Program on Social Enterprise (PSE) supports faculty, students, alumni, and practitioners interested in exploring the ways in which business skills and market disciplines can be harnessed to most effectively and efficiently achieve social objectives.

16. Socialnest: http://socialnest.org/conecta/sobre-nosotros/

Socialnest acts as incubator center of social enterprises with a dual mission: to help people who want to solve a social or environmental problem through a social enterprise and facilitate and encourage public participation in the improvement of our society and the world. Therefore, entrepreneurs and their projects are our axis. To facilitate the entrepreneurial way of social entrepreneurs, Socialnest seeks the knowledge and experience they possess professionals, students, entrepreneurs, universities, business schools, social organizations and investors for providing entrepreneurs with the necessary tools to make their business viable social and high social impact.

17. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: http://estudios.uoc.edu/es/masters-posgrados-especializaciones/especializacion/business-school-cast/innovar-emprender-empresa-social/presentacion

This course is designed to lay the groundwork necessary to understand and take an innovative, sustainable, scalable social initiative, with high social and self-sufficient as a guarantee of future impact.

The course will also provide extensive knowledge of strategic partnerships and leadership skills of social entrepreneurship.

Content: Social entrepreneurship, Social innovation, Eco-innovation and sustainability and Leadership and social entrepreneur network.

Price: $1.680

18. University of Frederiction: http://ufred.ca/w_mba_in_social_enterprise.aspx?

MBA in Social Enterprise Leadership Curriculum: Our online MBA with a focus in Social Enterprise Leadership is designed for early-career professionals and managers of non-profit organizations and social enterprises who aspire to lead their businesses towards much higher performance. It begins with coverage of fundamental management essentials such as financial, analytical and decision-making skills, and knowledge of an organization's core functions and interactions. The program goes much further than that. Its core focus is on leadership techniques, especially collaborative leadership in the complex context of dual objectives and multiple stakeholders; but it augments this core focus with a series of specialty courses focused exclusively on the needs of Social Enterprise leaders. (Tuition Fee: $19,000 CDN.)

19. Social Enterprise Works

http://www.socialenterpriseworks.org/our-services/training-and-events/our-courses

Social Enterprise Works runs training on a range of topics. We cater to everyone in social enterprise, from start-ups to seasoned pros.

They offer some workshops. One of them is FREE and the other cost 57 and 80 dollars approximately.

20. Social Traders

http://www.socialtraders.com.au/workshop-introduction-social-enterprise

This workshop is for anyone who is interested in social enterprise and would like to learn more. Whether you are starting a social enterprise, running a social enterprise, or you are part of government or a philanthropic organisation who might be looking to invest in or buy from social enterprise, this workshop is for you. (FREE)

21. Cornwall rural community council

http://www.cornwallrcc.org.uk/services/community-planning-and-development/community-enterprise/social-enterprise-workshops/

FREE social enterprise workshops in Cornwall: These workshops are suitable for voluntary groups, community projects and social enterprises that want to develop their skills and learn more and are a great opportunity to share ideas and experiences with others. (FREE)

22. En Espiral

http://blog.enspiral.com/2013/03/05/social-entrepreneurship-workshop-series-2/

The Enspiral Social Entrepreneurial Intern Crew have been working hard for the past month to create an exciting workshop series on social entrepreneurship.

The workshops aim to make social entrepreneurial knowledge accessible to everyone who wants to get out there and make a business with their good idea. It’s a bit like a social enterprise night school. Each workshop is designed to give participants the skills needed to turn good ideas into action in order to strengthen and grow the social entrepreneurship community in Wellington. (Price: 30$)

23. Social Entreprise Kent

http://www.sekgroup.org.uk/sek/workshops

24. Social Enterprise Sydney

https://www.socialenterprises.com.au

Social Enterprises Sydney are a Government funded organisation committed to developing the skills of Social Entrepreneurs and the sustainability of their social enterprises. We offer workshops, coaching, mentoring and networking events aimed at growing the success of the social business sector. We work with concept to start-up, from small to large, it's all about supporting you on your journey to success. (Price: aprox 30$)

25. The New School

http://blogs.newschool.edu/tnschangemakers/2013/09/free-social-entrepreneurship-workshops-nyu/

The NYU Reynolds Program is pleased to announce the Fall 2013 R.E.A.L Workshop Series: programming designed to support social entrepreneurs and changemakers with practical skills and knowledge bases critical to success in the field. (FREE)

26. The Canadian CED Network

http://ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/node/12554

Our workshop offers staff, board and volunteers of non-profit organizations a day of learning about the what and how of social enterprise. Attending the workshop qualifies your non-profit to apply for an enp social en

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