CHAPTER 27

What’s on the Menu? Feeding Your Social Enterprise

Elizabeth A.M. Searing

University at Albany, State University of New York

Introduction

In this exercise, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge of different financial resources to different hypothetical social ventures. Using a handy menu of potential sources of operating revenues and longer-term financing, you can design or augment the revenue portfolio or financial approach of a social venture through the familiar process of ordering dinner at a restaurant.

Learning Objectives

To familiarize participants with types of revenues and their attributes

To provide experience in the evaluation and construction of revenue portfolios

To move beyond the solo entrepreneur ...

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