This presentation was in conjunction with Chris Miller of The Mission Center and Julie Lawson of the Crime Victim's Advocacy Center. The presentation covers the ins and outs of social enterprise and presents several case studies.

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2.  Introductions and Background
 What is Social Entrepreneurship
 What is Social Enterprise
 Why Social Enterprise?
 Hybrid For-Profit/Non-Profit
Partnerships

3. Interruptions and Questions
are Welcomed and Maybe
Even Encouraged!

4.  Chris Miller
 The Mission Center
 Julie Lawson
 Crime Victim’s Advocacy Center
 Jason Cleaveland
 Juniper

5. The Mission Center, L3C exists to help
you focus on what you do best: your
mission.
 Educate, mentor and coach staff and boards
 Outsource non-core functions that helps
maximize results and minimize distractions.
 Work with an administrative partner that
shares your core values and a commitment to
those whom you serve
 Create economies of competency and scale
Your Mission is Our Mission…

6. What Is Social
Entrepreneurship?

7. “combines the
characteristics
represented by Richard
Branson and Mother
Teresa”

8. “the direct delivery of a
charitable service, with
little or no support from the
government”
…The Manhattan Institute
Social Entrepreneurship Initiative

9. “society’s change agent;
pioneer of innovations that
benefit humanity”
…Skoll Foundation

10. “a form of public leadership that
maximizes the social return on
public service efforts while
fundamentally and permanently
changing the way problems are
addressed on a global scale”
…New York University
Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship

11. “a professional, innovative,
and sustainable approach to
systemic change that resolves
social market failures and
grasps opportunities”
…Oxford University
Said Business School

12. “using entrepreneurial skills to
craft innovative processes,
approaches, and solutions to
help resolve social issues.”
…Washington University in St. Louis
Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

13. It’s about thinking outside the
box, acting energetically and
without fear of failure, and
seeing the world in terms of
opportunities, not obstacles.
 …The School of Chris Miller

14. But more than anything,
entrepreneurship is about
collaborating with others to create
new value—be it monetary or
social, physical or conceptual—
that improves people’s lives and
moves the world forward.
 …The School of Chris Miller

15. Social Entrepreneurship is ABOUT
Social
Entrepreneurs

16.  CityYear
 Michael Brown and Alan Khazei
 Teach for America
 Wendy Kopp
 Charter School Movement
 St. Louis Language Immersion Schools – Rhonda Broussard
 Shearwater Ed. Foundation – Stephanie Krauss
 St. Patrick’s Center
 Edith C. Cunnane
 Community Organizers
 Saul Alinsky
 Barack Obama

17. What Is Social
Enterprise?

18. “An organization or venture
that advances its social
mission through
entrepreneurial, earned
income strategies.”
…Social Enterprise Alliance

19. “A revenue generating venture
founded to create economic
opportunities for very low
income individuals, while
simultaneously operating with
reference to the financial
bottom-line.”
…The Roberts Foundation Homeless Economic
Development Fund (REDF)

20. “The myriad of entrepreneurial
or 'self-financing' methods
used by nonprofit
organizations to generate
some of their own income in
support of their mission.”
…NESsT
."

21. “A social enterprise is any business
venture created for a social purpose--
mitigating/reducing a social problem or
a market failure--and to generate social
value while operating with the financial
discipline, innovation and
determination of a private sector
business.”
…Virtue Ventures

22. Key Points of Agreement Among Social Enterprise
Definitions:
Social
Enterprise = MoneyMission
+

23. What’s the
International Red
Cross’ Main Social
Enterprise?

24. Blood
Well over 50% of its Revenue
Several BILLION Dollars

26. 26
Founded: 1974 by four recovering addicts fresh out of prison
Mission: Provide clean and sober living environment, employment and
education for recovering addicts, alcoholics and ex-offenders
Products/Services: Moving and Storage, Restaurant, Coffee House, Digital Printing,
Construction and Property Management, Landscape, Warehousing
and Storage (too many others to list)
Annual Revenue: 18 mil
Earned Revenue: 10 mil
Number Served: Approx. 1500 Annually between 4 locations San Francisco, Los
Angeles, New Mexico, North Carolina, and New York

27. Founded: 1988 by Fr. Greg Boyle and the Delores Mission Church
Mission: Provide employment and wrap-around services to gang members,
ex-offenders, addicts and alcoholics
Products/Services: Restaurant, Screen Printing, Bakery, Merchandise, Licensed food
products
Annual Revenue: 8 mil
Earned Revenue: 3 mil
Number Served: Approx. 8000 Annually with the entire range of services
Homeboy employs about 235 people

28. 28
Founded: 1963 by Jack Dalton a recovering alcoholic and ex-offender
Mission: Provide treatment, housing, employment, transportation and on-
going case management to addicts, alcoholics, ex-offenders and
families
Products/Services: retail cafés, institutional food, sheet metal fabrication, aerospace
precision machining, wholesale food distribution, contract
packaging and fulfillment
Annual Revenue: 61 mil
Earned Revenue: 61 mil
Number Served: Approximately 11,000 over more than 60 sites all over Washington
State

29.  St. Patrick’s Center Project BEGIN
 Go! Network
 Blessing Basket
 Seeds of Blessing, LLC
 The JuiceBox Healthy Corner Stores, L3C
 Healthy Foods Corner Store
 Angel Baked Cookies
 Jobs and Afterschool Mentoring

30. •Opened in 1990
•Full-service restaurant employment for homeless
and mentally ill clients
•Began with seed money from corporation (The
Boeing Company) but has been self-sufficient
almost since beginning
•Enables 30-40 individuals annually to begin a
career in the restaurant industry

31. Consolare
• Started in 2010 with seed money from the Skandalaris
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington
University
• Products are fully healing
• Ex-offender involvement in the creation of handmade
products
• Benefits the Crime Victim Advocacy Center of St. Louis

32. • Launched in August this year using MRP grant funds as
seed capitol.
• Provides a complete wrap-around solution for ex-
offenders
• Uses open-book management techniques to teach
entrepreneurship
• Teaches a variety of soft and hard skills through an array
of employment opportunities.
• Projected to be self-supporting within a 12 months

33.  Competition and Stagnating Resources
 Ability to advance your mission in new
and innovative ways that also generate
additional revenue
 Decrease in Permission Based Revenue
 Non Zero-Sum
 Increases Staff Recruitment
 Increases Staff Retention

34.  Increases Board Involvement,
 Opportunity for Board Development
 Adds Additional Levels of Accountability
 Social and Financial
 Process Builds Organizational Capacity
 Business Planning
 Opportunity Assessment Skills
 Team Building and Collaboration

35.  Earned Income
 Revenue Diversification
 Social Return on Investment
 Double/Triple Bottom Lines
 Mission-Venture Alignment
 Cross Sector Collaborations and
Partnerships

36.  Inability to Scale
 Insufficient Capital
 Structural Concerns
 Inability to Pay a Return on the
Investment
 Lack of Knowledge and Expertise in
the NFP Sector

37.  Policy Issues
 America Forward
 Nonprofit Missouri
 Education:
 YouthBridge Workshops
 University College, GWB, Olin
 Capital:
 Y-S.E.I.C.
 St. Louis Social Venture Capital Funds
 Arch Grants
 Structure:
 Low-Profit Company (L3C)

39.  Deliverables:
o Executive Summary
• Determines Semi-Finalists
o Elevator Pitch:
• Determines Finalists
o Sustainability (Business) Plan
o Final Presentations:
• Scoring of the Sustainability Plan + Final
Presentations Determines the Winners
 2011 Y-SEIC Awards Ceremony is
Thursday
April 14th
at 5:00 PM

40. The Awards!
Over $600,00 in Social Venture
Capital in Six Years

41.  YouthBridge Community Foundation
 $35,000 to fund a venture serving youth
 Daughters of charity
 $25,000 to fund a venture serving women health
 Lutheran Foundation:
 $35,000 to fund a venture serving women
 The Skandalaris Center
 $25,000 to fund a venture with an innovative solution
that impacts social change
 $5,000 Student Prize for Most Valuable Teammate

42.  Under
“Program”
Select SEIC
2011
 Download the
Welcome Kit
 Description
 Process
 Criteria
 Seminars

43. Enterprise Development
Program
Email Christy Maxfield:
christy.maxfield@missioncenterl3c.com