A hands-on resource that shows nonprofits how to adopt entrepreneurial behaviors and techniques

The rising spirit of social entrepreneurship has created all kinds of new opportunities for nonprofit organizations. But at the same time, many are discovering more than their share of challenges as well. This essential book will help anyone in the field gain the necessary skills to meet these challenges. Written by the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field, Enterprising Nonprofits offers concise and engaging explanations of the most successful business tools being used by nonprofits today. The authors clearly describe all the concepts so you’ll be able to embrace the methods of social enterprise for your organization. With this book, you’ll learn how to use practical business techniques to dramatically improve the performance of your nonprofit.

Praise for Enterprising Nonprofits

"I can’t imagine a better team to bring powerful insights and practical guidance to social entrepreneurs. Readers will be inspired by the examples, and then they will roll up their sleeves to apply the many useful management tools in this engaging book."–Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, Author of Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow

"In one book, Enterprising Nonprofits does for social entrepreneurs what countless volumes have done for entrepreneurs in the business sector. A wonderful mixture of analysis, practical advice, and inspiration."–Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

All of the royalties from this book will be used by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support continuing work on social entrepreneurship.

A complete set of tools for applying entrepreneurial strategies and techniques to your nonprofit

As a follow-up to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide a full set of practical tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to work in your nonprofit. The book offers hands-on guidance that helps social sector leaders hone their entrepreneurial skills and carry out their social missions more effectively than ever before. This practical and easy-to-use book is filled with examples, exercises, checklists, and action steps that bring the concepts, frameworks, and tools to life. Detailed explanations of all the tools and techniques will help you personalize and apply them to your nonprofit organization–making it stronger, healthier, and better able to serve the needs of our communities.

Praise for Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs

"I search constantly for resources that can help provide insight and guidance to take Teach For America to a higher level; Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs does this and more. The book takes the best practices of for-profits and social enterprises and adapts them to the needs of entrepreneurial, mission-driven nonprofits. Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs is a tremendous contribution to social entrepreneurs and to the nonprofit sector–many thanks to the authors for identifying this need and filling it!"
–Wendy Kopp
Founder and President, Teach For America

All of the royalties from this book will be used by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support continuing work on social entrepreneurship.

What would you do? You live in small town U.S.A. You're a typical teenager. You just have to make it through each day without horribly embarrassing yourself. You have a normal, uneventful life. You're part of a wonderful, supportive family. Sure, your mother has the power to heal with her hands. But everyone has secrets, right? What would you do? You find out that you have a special power as well. That doesn't make you a freak, right? It's just one more thing you have to incorporate into your life. You just have to keep it hidden, no big deal. What would you do? Your world is about to come crashing down upon you. Just when you think you have a good bead on things. But as many of us already know, life rarely goes according to plan. What would you do?

What is mind dribble? The thoughts that ooze out from that dark corner of your mind and take the form of prose and poems. This collection of mind dribble varies from love to hate, from silence to music. Let me first apologize. Some of the content in this work is pretty cheesy. Some might say vulgar, maybe even violent. Others may determine that some of the writing is just bad. Frankly, I agree. But the point here was to put it out there. Exploring these thoughts that somehow find their way on to paper, dribbling out of some dark corner of the mind intrigues me. They are snapshots of a moment in time that now seems out of place. Maybe they were just attempts at cleverness. Perhaps you will find one that captures your imagination and leads you to daydreaming. Or perhaps you will see yourself in something. We all experience the same feelings one way or another. We all have this connection in our humanity that draws us to a common craziness justified by the day to day grind of survival. But there I go again. Enjoy?