Welcome to Social Enterprise Ventures LLC

We offer training and consultation to nonprofits that want to diversify their income from traditional fundraising into earned income ventures.

"Introduction to Social Enterprise" Webinar
$20 per person

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Training:

Expedition™ is a nine-month course with seven one-half day classroom modules, homework and consultation. Participating agencies build an Expedition team of staff and volunteers to undertake the journey in several stages/sessions:

Module One:

Organizational Focus
Vision, Mission, Core Values
Stakeholder Planning
Goals and Desired Outcomes
Dealing with Change

Module Two: Assets and Opportunities

Physical, technical, knowledge and relationship assets
Brainstorming opportunities
Objective Evaluation Criteria

Module Three: Venture Market Research Part I – The Customer(s)

Buyer/Payer Markets
Buying Decisions
Surveys, Market Research

Module Four: Venture Market Research Part II – The Competition

Competitive Advantage
Market Research

Module Five: Costing, Breakeven, Financing

Determining true costs
Figuring Breakeven
Financing Options
UBIT and other issues

Module Six: Marketing and Communications Planning

Positioning
Marketing Ps
Marketing Planning

Module Seven: Business Plan Development

Expedition Outcomes

Participants can expect changes to occur in the way they manage their nonprofit business.
Many will create a business plan for an ambitious earned income social enterprise venture.
Many agencies will refine and enhance their current programs and services by providing value added benefits that create new income sources through new payer markets and customers.
All participants will develop a new language and will internalize a new, objective method by which to evaluate current and future programs, services and income opportunities.
At the core, completing the Expedition program will result in fundamental organizational change while increasing your mission.

Expedition Cost

Pricing for this program begins at $12,000 per agency, regardless of the size of your Expedition team, plus trainer expenses. The fee includes training with 2 trainer/consultants and consultation for up to one year during the training.

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Road Trip™ is a two day condensed version of the Expedition program. Participants will follow the map of the full nine month program, and will lay the groundwork for more intensive training, if they choose to do so. They will be exposed to all the phases of the full journey.

Road Trip Cost

Pricing for this program is $250/person with a minimum of 32 people per training group, plus trainer expenses, and includes the two day training with 2 trainer/consultants.

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To learn more about Expedition and Road Trip, please email the consultant whose expertise best meets your needs or contact us at .

Consultation:

In addition to the Expedition and Road Trip training, our professionals offer training and consultation in Board Development, Fundraising, Marketing, Nonprofit Management, Executive Coaching and facilitate Strategic Planning retreats. To learn more about these other services, please contact any of the consultants in your area.

We have created a printable fact sheet about Social Enterprise Ventures, LLC. To view this document, please click here (Adobe Acrobat format).

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