Title: Strategic Tools for Social Entreprenuers: Enhancing the performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit / Edition 2
Author: J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy
ISBN-10: 0471150681
ISBN-13: 9780471150688
The idea of social entrepreneurship is becoming increasinglypopular as nonprofit leaders search for new ways to serve theirmissions and generate funds for their organizations. In their bookEnterprising Nonprofits, the authors offered new ways to apply thelessons of business entrepreneurship to social enterprises. Thisbook enriches the toolkit offered in the first book by providingadditional tools for thinking strategically about value creation,income generation, and growth. Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs focuses on improvingyour entrepreneurial effectiveness. It integrates the latestthinking on business entrepreneurship with the very best ideasabout nonprofit management in a practical and accessible packagethat requires no prior business training. It includes interviewswith many of today’s most successful social entrepreneurs andprofiles of highly effective enterprising nonprofits. It alsopresents real-world models for applying the book’s concepts toyour nonprofit’s day-to-day management and strategicpositioning. The goal of the social entrepreneur is to make the world abetter place, and you can do that more effectively with StrategicTools for Social Entrepreneurs. Using these tools, forward-thinkingnonprofit leaders can be more enterprising and have greaterpositive, long-term impact in their chosen fields. All thefundamental issues of social entrepreneurship are discussed,including ways to create value strategically, grow in newdirections, and manage your changing organization. In addition to contributions from the three lead authors,you’ll benefit from the advice of thinkers at the forefront ofthis emerging and dynamic field, including: Jerry Kitzi, President, Social Venture Partners of GreaterKansas City James L. Heskett, Professor Emeritus, Harvard BusinessSchool Kay Sprinkel Grace, organizational consultant Shirley Brice Heath, Professor, Stanford University Fay Twersky, founding Principal, BTW Consultants-informingchange Jill Blair, founding Principal, BTW Consultants-informingchange Beth Battle Anderson, Senior Research Associate, The FuquaSchool of Business, Duke University Melissa A. Taylor, doctoral candidate, Martin School of PublicPolicy and Administration, University of Kentucky Betty Henderson Wingfield, Senior Consultant, ExecutiveDevelopment Associates Steve Roling, Senior Vice President, Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation Exercises, checklists, and action steps allow you to tailorthese concepts to your specific needs while remaining true to yourfounding vision. Whether you’re a nonprofit CEO, board member,staffer, or volunteer, the world-class guidance presented in thisvolume will help you recognize and pursue new opportunities toserve your mission bestthrough innovation, adaptation, andlearning.
