Getting Started on Earned Income
and Best Practices

When you are ready to start your journey to social enterprise or ready to benchmark your best practices, there are several funding options you might explore.

FUNDER-DRIVEN MODEL (Multiple Funders)

Key corporate, foundation or other funders in a community or region work together to sponsor agencies, pooling their investments and enabling multiple agencies. Our consultant/trainers can help with a presentation or informational webinar for funders.

FUNDER-DRIVEN MODEL (Single Funder)

A single funding organization sponsors training for its member agencies (or other group of agencies selected by the funder).

HOSTING ORGANIZATION MODEL

A local nonprofit organization (such as a Center for Nonprofit Excellence, United Way, Community Foundation) hosts training. The hosting organization may recruit other funders or serve as sole funder. The hosting organization manages delivery of the training and can add an administrative overhead to program costs as earned income for the hosting organization.

AGENCY-DRIVEN MODEL

A single agency or group of agencies recruits its/their own funding for training through grants, agency budgets or donor contributions.

NATIONAL AGENCY-MEMBER MODEL

A national or regional headquarters for member agencies sponsors training for all or selected member agencies in a region or community.

Need more information?

Email: Jean@jblockinc.com
Call: 505.899.1520

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Testimonials

Free has turned to fee. . . . Given this funding environment . . . we have taken some major hits but we are growing our programs, we are not shrinking and we are not laying off people. Our Transcare program is now a mature business and it is really pumping out some money. If we hadn't done that we would be in a heap of hurt.

The Crisis Center - Donna Todd
I was thinking before our last Social Enterprise session ended - What a great exercise in group-think this has been. Definitely worth the on-site, team training experience as opposed to individual learning.

Tri-Cap Community Action - Joyce Fleck
This was one of the best trainings I have attended and I have been to many over the past 26 years with the agency. The training was great due to the materials provided, the feedback and support received from the trainers during the training. I highly recommend this training!

Joan Tarantino, Washington County EOC, Inc.
We believe in that class, it was like a sermon! It gave you a new way of thinking. How can we sustain our program? In social service there is the old way of doing things: we depend on the grant, we depend on the state and federal funds. Now it is: Okay, you can self sustain, you can depend on you.

Positive Spin - Harriett Scott
Wow! My head us still reeling! 2 days, 2 groups, 1,000 ideas... Really good. Really, really good! You light the fire of imagination. You breathe energy into possibility. You give legs to hope. You dispel unrealities, break down walls, and force honest, calculated assessment. Thank you!
Texas Heritage Trails/Denton CVB - Kim Phillips