Sometime along the 1980s, leaders and pioneers in our field began realizing that, by and large, we were not very good business people. Our expertise was in the “social work” sphere, not business. So they began looking to for-profit business models to enhance our capabilities, to be able to shed our “tin cup mentality” and thrive, rather than merely survive.

One of the concepts evolving out of that process was that of “social entrepreneurship,” defined as “combining the passion of a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation and determination by developing earned-income ventures where they generate profits which, in turn, are spent on improving a nonprofit’s services to the community.” We think this adds an exciting new dynamic to your endeavors, and we will discuss/demonstrate it thoroughly in your direct services/training.