Designing Your Social Venture
What you'll learn
- How to address key elements when designing a social venture business model.
- Critical risks often overlooked by others and ways to mitigate them.
- The difference between organizational and personal success and what that means when planning your venture’s future.
- The importance of financial sustainability, whether designing a for-profit or nonprofit.
Requirements
- You should have a social venture idea in mind before starting this course.
- A basic understanding of business concepts is helpful, but not required.
Description
Do you want to solve important social issues, but not sure how this is possible?
The world is full of problems, from climate change to food insecurity, it's only natural to seek solutions to these problems. One option for you is to build a social venture to solve a social such an issue in a financially sustainable approach.
Do you already have an idea for a social impact venture, but aren’t sure what to do next?
Already have an idea on what your new venture will be, that's great! it's now time to design all of the key elements such as your value proposition, stakeholder relations and competitive barriers that are needed to bring you from an idea to an executable plan.
Do you have an initial plan or model, but feel that it could be better?
It's a major milestone to map out your idea, the tasks you need to accomplish, and the strategy you will take moving forward. However it's normal to lack the confidence to 'take a leap of faith' needed to launch. Join our course to strength your plan in a holistic approach and grow the confidence need to take action.
In this course we will work towards these outcomes:
A holistic social venture business model and plan of action for your social venture.
A strategic set of plans to address critical risks and unintended consequences.
Clarity on how you and your team can best plan your venture’s future while being true to your personal values and goals.
To get there we have broken the course into 11 modules - Each module covers a core concept, examples and related questions you will need to reflect upon and answer to effectively design your social venture and the strategic approach you will take.
Expand your community - An additional benefit to studying here on Udemy is that you will be able to connect with likeminded peers from across the globe (potential team mates in the future) and share feedback on each other's social venture designs.
Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge and tools to build solutions to the problems we all face. I look forward to you joining me to discover how to successfully design your social venture and witnessing your impact grow.
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring entrepreneurs working on initial plans for their Impact Venture.
- Non-Profit employees looking to launch a sustainable Impact Venture within their organisation.
- Individuals looking to understand how to design an Impact Venture from scratch.
Instructor
![Alden Zecha](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 45 Reviews
- 90 Students
- 2 Courses
International executive & board member merging social impact, technology & business to help leverage technology to drive greater profits while delivering positive social good. Experienced instructor and mentor including having taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business for many years. Has helped guide companies from Fortune 100 to startup including hundreds of social enterprises. Has spoken at the White House on entrepreneurship and been quoted multiple times in the Wall Street Journal.