Social Innovation and Impact in Nonprofit Leadership. This timely textbook, reflecting the trends and developments in the nonprofit sector over the past decade, encompasses the core competencies required to lead nonprofit organizations through social innovation and impact during the 21st century. It fills a knowledge gap for leaders, managers, practitioners, students, faculty members, and providers in this rapidly growing field by providing a comprehensive framework for how to run and manage nonprofits. This includes all of the tools needed to affect social change through ethical business practices, management and leadership business strategies, social marketing, and policy analysis across government, nonprofits, and philanthropy.
Key Features:
Provides a comprehensive framework for how to lead nonprofits in the 21st century
Describes the core competencies and tools needed to affect social innovation and impact
Addresses a key problem for nonprofit professionals: the need to provide donors with a social return on investment
Discusses how nonprofit leaders can demonstrate their organization's impact
Written and edited by highly respected professionals in the nonprofit field.
The Social Innovator’s Playbook inspires civic and social sector leaders to understand and undertake the process of social innovative thinking to solve some of the world’s most pressing social issues.
The Social Innovator's Playbook's mission is to inspire civic and social sector leaders to understand and undertake the process of social innovative thinking to solve some of the world's most pressing social issues. The Social Innovator's Playbook's is derived from assisting hundreds of civic and social sector innovators and entrepreneurs design, test, and launch their social sector idea. The key to our recipe is teaching social sector innovators and entrepreneurs "how" to think and not "what" to think. Most importantly it is about helping social innovators and entrepreneurs tap into their respective passions and motivations and turning them into services and products that help their respective communities.
This playbook provides a process for individual entrepreneurs to design, test, and launch their social innovation/enterprise and a process for institutions to create a culture of innovation within their organization leading to improved and/or new social sector products and services.
Below we provide lectures and videos accompanying the Social Innovator’s Playbook 2.0.
PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LEADERS is designed for Board Members and Not-for-profit Managers and Leaders who are relatively new in their roles and have a practitioner’s interest in the development, leadership, and management of not-for-profit organizations and their intersection with the private sector and government. Giving not-for-profit leaders practical tools to be successful provides readers with the essential competencies, tools, and ready-to-use materials to manage, lead, and conduct in-depth analysis of a not-for-profit’s effectiveness, ultimately leading to social impact, financial sustainability, and systems and policy impact. Giving not-for-profit leaders practical tools to be successful also addresses contemporary challenges related to organizational ethics, accountability, emerging legal frameworks, and public policy.
Readers are provided with “best practice” templates that include articles of incorporation, bylaws, governance roles, strategic business plans, organizational scorecards, three-year budget projections, development plans, and public policy strategies that can be applied to the governance, leadership, strategic and/or business model, financial sustainability, social impact, marketing and communications, and public policy of their own organization to influence best practices.
Social Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs Instructional Lectures
Nicholas Torres describes the importance and process to understand to research prior and current models and best practices related to a social issue to understand the gaps. Only when one understands the gaps can one launch a social innovation.
Human Centered Design Video
Kimberlee Douglas describes that in order to produce better service models or products we need to be better understand our targets and the context of their communities by designing with the target consumers and communities.
David Castro provides a macro perspective on Design Thinking in context of Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, Disruptive Innovation, and Systematic Thinking.
Rapid Prototyping Video
Nicholas Torres describes the importance and process of testing and then adapting your service or product on the targeted consumer before launching.
Michael Clark describes the full array of social financing models that should be considered when seeking investments.
Financial Modeling Video
Nicholas Torres describes the thinking behind considering alternative revenue sources to philanthropy and governmental grants by first understanding the business behind the service or product and then creating 3-5 year financial projections.
Mathew Grande from Shift Capital describes Shift Capital’s model that introduced a new model into a real estate that takes into account human centered design for the surrounding community and their employment needs, their impact, and beginning of scaling their impact via replication as other groups seek their advice and knowledge.
Hadass Sheffer from Graduate! Network describes Graduate! Network’s model inception in Philadelphia’s Ecosystem and over a period of ten years scales to over 40 ecosystems across the United States.