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The mission-driven venture : business solutions to the world's most vexing social problems /
"Practical guidance to maximize financial results while driving positive social changeThe Mission-Driven Venture provides actionable guidance for leveraging the power of the marketplace to solve the world's most vexing social problems. Written by attorney and financial advisor Marc J. Lane...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Website; Chapter 1 Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job; ""Father G"" and Homeboy; Vanessa Bartram and WorkSquare, LLC; The Origin of Mission-Driven Ventures; Businesses Drive Social Change; Profits and Purpose; Our Agenda; Chapter 2 Where to Begin? Constructing the Mission-Driven Venture; Maximizing the Prospects of Financial Success and Meaningful Social Impact; Step One: Reality Check; Step Two: Testing the Feasibility of the Mission-Driven Venture; Tracking Input, Output, and Outcome Indicators.
- Entity Design ChoicesMoving from Ideation to Realization; Preparing for Launch; Finally, It's Time for the Mission-Driven Entrepreneur to Give Life to His Vision; Zeroing in on Size and Scale; Chapter 3 Communities of Interest: Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corps; Delaware Rejects Stakeholderism; The Benefit Corporation's Impact; Delaware, the Outlier; Patagonia's Values and Vision; Public Good Software Supports Civil Society; Ensuring Accountability to Stakeholders; Chapter 4 PRIs and L3Cs; The Low-Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C).
- The ""Sustainability Mayor"" Leverages His ImpactCounseling Data, L3C: A Case Study in Collective Impact; Chapter 5 The Poor and Their Banker Lead the Way; Professor Yunus' Journey; The Visit to Jobra; The Banking System's Failure; Yunus' Ingenious Solution; The Advent of the ""Social Business""; Grameen Bank and Its Strategy; Chapter 6 Leveraging Grameen; The Power of Cause-Related Marketing; The Grameen Family Expands; Social Venture Franchising; Grameen Empowers Entrepreneurs; Chapter 7 The Mondragón Miracle: Scaling the Peaks Beyond the Pyrenees; Italy's ""Social Co-Operatives""
- France's ""SCOPs""Why Worker-Owned Co-Ops Succeed; The Evergreen Cooperatives Build on Mondragón's Success; Chapter 8 Social Impact Bonds: Aligning Financial and Social Returns; Funding Targeted Intervention Strategies; ""Pay for Success""; The Massachusetts Initiative; New York City Leads the Way; Pay for Success Gains Traction; Where Social Impact Bonds Work; The Social Impact Bond's Progeny; Empowering the Social Sector; Chapter 9 Building and Rebuilding Communities; Donor-Advised Funds; The Role Foundations Play; Lessons Learned; Chapter 10 Investing for Impact.
- The Origin of Impact InvestingImpact Investing Takes Root; Chapter 11 How Impact Investing Works-and Why; The Form of the Investment; Managing Risk; Judging Investment Performance; Quantifying Social Returns; Cashing Out; The Challenges of an Impact Investing Market; Chapter 12 Impact Investing: Pursuing Its Destiny; The Importance of Public Policy; The Institutional Investors Weigh In; The Growth Trajectory Is Clear; Chapter 13 Keeping Score: What Success Looks Like; A Safe Haven's Social Impact; Crediting the Causes of Positive Social Change; REDF and Social Return on Investment.