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The Mission-Driven Venture

By Lane, Marc J

The Mission-Driven Venture

By Lane, Marc J

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Despite the fact that governments and nonprofit organizations have compassionately ­invested billions in social services, we still face unrelenting challenges in education, health care, poverty, unemployment, and the environment. The Mission-Driven Venture offers anyone committed to social innovation a hands-on, actionable guide for leveraging the power of the market-place to solve the world's most difficult social problems. Written by attorney and financial advisor Marc J. Lane-a renowned thought leader and expert on entrepreneurship, social enterprise, impact investing, and entrepreneurial finance-this important guide explores the full spectrum of the varied interests represented at the intersection of business and social change. Together, mission-driven ventures and traditional business concerns can reach and sustain scaled social solutions. Filled with real-world accounts of the journeys and successes of mission-driven initiatives, The Mission-Driven Venture clearly illustrates the transformative potential of social enterprise. Throughout the book, Lane offers the information and tools needed for becoming an agent of change and shows how to move from idea to reality with a step-by-step guide to designing and implementing a successful mission-driven venture. Social entrepreneurs embrace mission-driven ventures that emphasize transparency and accountability. They lead by example. They fill a humanitarian vacuum left by government and charity, and they do so sustainably as only the private sector can. For example, social entrepreneurs may organize and operate a low-profit limited liability company that, by law, places mission above profits and facilitates foundation funding of charitable and educational businesses. The Benefit Corporation requires its managers to make decisions not only to enrich its shareholders, but also for the good of society as a whole. Social impact bonds provide long-term funds for promising social interventions, transfer risk to private capital markets, and tap into public coffers only when specific social benefits are achieved. Microfinance and microcredit are helping the poorest of the poor become self-sufficient business owners. And worker-owned co-operatives are converting the disenfranchised into self-reliant entrepreneurs. Impact investors, social entrepreneurs, socially conscious individuals, nonprofit and foundation leaders, and anyone committed to social innovation will find The Mission-Driven Venture to be a practical roadmap to the rapidly developing arena of social enterprise.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2015-01-09
Publication Date:
2015-01-20
Publisher:
Wiley
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1118336054
ISBN13:
9781118336052
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
496 g
Height:
158 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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