new and noteworthy
New Team
Member
CWV is excited to welcome a new associate to the organization: Brittany
Vasseur. Brittany will focus on supporting projects for the Venture
Consulting Practice. Click
here to read more about CWV’s most recent addition.
9th Annual Social Enterprise Summit
Community Wealth Ventures and Social Franchise Ventures will be
conducting two pre-conference sessions and three conference sessions at
the Social Enterprise
Alliance’s 9th Annual Social Enterprise Summit in Boston March 9-11,
2008.
Pre-Conference Sessions
Critiquing and Pitching for Growth Capital: Getting Into Your
Business Plans
Session Leader: Sara Brenner, Senior Consultant
This session provides a unique opportunity for social enterprise
leaders to engage in working groups to get feedback on their
business plans from experienced consultants and peers and to present
to an external panel.
Lessons From Profiles and Dialogues Among Leaders
Session Leader: Heather Peeler, Director
Leaders of selected high-performing social enterprises will gather
to share lessons learned, key challenges and victories, as well as
provide insights into the direction of the industry and
opportunities for social enterprise.
Conference Sessions
Financial Bootstrapping: Small Steps That Can Yield Big Results
Presented by Alysia Johnson Fullen and Diana Peacock, Senior
Consultants
Bootstrapping, or self-financing, is one of the most common forms of
capitalizing a business. This workshop will present a variety of
strategies that social enterprises can employ to grow their business
from within.
Unlikely Bedfellows: Innovative Partnerships That Yield Success
Presented by Nicole Hanrahan, Senior Consultant and Warren Tranquada,
Partner, Aperio LLC
The best partnerships are sometimes those with non-traditional
partners such as direct competitors, for-profit companies and the
government. This session will present examples of unlikely
partnerships, provide a framework for participants to evaluate
partnership opportunities, and suggest tactics for succeeding in a
non-traditional partnership.
Developing a Social Franchise Strategy
Presented by Coleen Curry, Director of Client Development, and Doug
Sudell, Director of Client Support, Social Franchise Ventures; Robin
Harwood, Director of Marketing and Operations, CMARC
An informative case study of one nonprofit's partnership with a
direct-mail franchise business. SFV shares its systematic approach
to identifying assets that nonprofits can leverage to operate a
profitable business, dealing with the franchise community and
structuring a mutually beneficial organizational relationship.
For additional
information on the program offerings, please click
here.
While registration is not yet available for specific sessions,
registration for the summit can be found
here.
Collaborative Programs Update
Cleveland
The Cleveland Community Wealth Collaborative is scheduled to kick off on
January 10, 2008, with an information session for nonprofit
organizations. Community Wealth Ventures and its partner, The Mandel
Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University,
will lead the session. For more information on the Cleveland Community
Wealth Collaborative and to RSVP for the information session, click
here.
North Texas
Community Wealth Ventures and its partner, the Center for Nonprofit
Management, selected eight high-performing organizations in September to
participate in the North Texas Community Wealth Collaborative. For more
information about this initiative or about the eight participating
organizations, which are now two months into the process, click
here.
As part of the North Texas Community Wealth Initiative, Community Wealth
Ventures and the Center for Nonprofit Management will be holding three
workshops that are open to all nonprofit organizations. The topics and
dates are as follows:
-
Getting
Started With Social Enterprise, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 9 a.m. to noon, Ft.
Worth, TX
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Getting
Started With Social Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 7, 9 a.m. to noon
Dallas, TX
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Planning
for a Social Enterprise, Tuesday, May 6, 9 a.m. to noon., Dallas, TX
Please check
back at www.communitywealth.com
in early January for information on how to RSVP for these workshops.
New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits engaged Community Wealth
Ventures to hold a full-day workshop on November 7 in Portsmouth. About
40 nonprofit leaders and managers attended to learn more about social
enterprise.
North Central Massachusetts
The United Way of North Central Massachusetts engaged Community Wealth
Ventures to hold a half-day workshop on November 2, in Leominster.
The session provided an introduction to social enterprise.
Social Franchise Ventures Update
In the past quarter, SFV launched engagements with three new clients in
the Pittsburgh area: The
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania, and most recently,
Wesley Spectrum Services.
Each of these clients has unique assets that will make it attractive to
a franchisor partner. The team is working diligently with these clients
to develop their social franchise strategies. In addition, SFV continues
to work with several other clients to negotiate franchise agreements.
SFV participated in the First NISH Symposium on Franchise Operations in
Los Angeles on October 17-18. The symposium was held in conjunction with
the International Franchise Association's West Coast Franchise Expo and
was aimed at nonprofit agency executives interested in investigating
franchising to generate revenue and develop new and exciting job
opportunities for people with disabilities. SFV presented a two-part
workshop designed to introduce nonprofit executives to the franchise
sector and the issues and opportunities involved in the pursuit of a
social franchise.
On November 7, SFV presented a workshop at the New Hampshire Center for
Nonprofits titled Social Enterprise: A Path to Greater Sustainability.
Venture Consulting Practice Update
Public Allies hired CWV to assess its needs and determine the market
opportunity for a time tracking/performance management IT system. Our
work involves analyzing the competition, interviewing and surveying
potential customers, and leading focus groups.
CWV recently completed a successful engagement with the
Search Institute in which
we developed a business plan that includes the strategies and investment
required to motivate and equip 10 million adults with Search Institute
youth development resources while reaching financial sustainability for
the organization.
We kicked off an engagement with Northern
Virginia Family Service to help the client determine which of its
many assets and capabilities to leverage in the development of a social
enterprise. The team identified 10 potential opportunities that would be
relatively easy to implement and that have significant revenue
potential.
Other Conferences and Presentations
October 2007
Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative; Charlotte, NC
Getting Started With Social Enterprise
Maximize the Profit of Your Social Enterprise
October 24
Nicole Hanrahan, Senior Consultant
Alfred Miller Wise, President
November 2007
Indiana Grantmakers Alliance
Overview of Social Enterprise
November 8
Amy Celep, Director
Hawai’i Community Foundation: PONO (Promoting Outstanding Nonprofit
Organizations) Fellow Presentation
November 9
Heather Peeler, Director
Partners in Community Forestry Conference; Baltimore, MD
Co-presented with the Parks and People Foundation
Social Enterprise Business Development: A Tool for Community Forestry
Management
November 14
Alysia Johnson Fullen, Senior Consultant
April 2008
United Way of Greater Houston
Workshop on Social Enterprise
April 1
Sara Brenner, Senior Consultant
Diana Peacock, Senior Consultant
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