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

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