I am looking for some hands-on information on nonprofits that launched a subsidiary for-profit venture to benefit the clients the non-profit is serving. Case studies would be nice. I am either using the wrong words in a search, or there has not been much research on this topic. Can you help me find what I'm looking for?
If you search for "nonprofit earned income case studies" in Google you will get links to many sources of information. I briefly skimmed the first dozen items listed and found a link to the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University which led to the following web page. It lists several nonprofit earned income case studies. I think many of the other items in the Google search results will also lead to case studies and other hands-on information.
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Our organization serves homeless and formerly homeless individuals and we operate a for-proft enterprise that incorporates our food services training program (comprised of the population we serve) to provide meals for area organizations. I’ve found these resources to be helpful:
I recommend The Social Enterprise Sourcebook as a resource for the types of case studies of the type you are looking for:
http://www.northlandinst.org/sourcebook.cfm
Community Wealth Ventures has a link on their resources page that allows you to search for social enterprises by type/industry.
http://www.communitywealth.com/Directory%20of%20Social%20Enterprises.htm
This is a link to the REDF site and they have information about case studies as well.
http://www.redf.org/publications-nse.htm
»» Posted by: awunderli on July 31, 2008 05:32 AM