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Most Popular NESsT Publications
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Risky Business: The Impacts of Merging Mission and Market
Risky Business examines the impact — both financial and non-financial — of entrepreneurial activities on small social change organizations. An important contribution to the growing debate [...] More ›
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Get Ready, Get Set: Starting Down the Road to Self-Financing
Get Ready, Get Set is designed to help the staff and board of a nonprofit organization consider their options for self-financing. Get Ready, Get Set [...] More ›
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End of the Rainbow: Increasing the Sustainability of LGBT Organizations through Social Enterprise
End of the Rainbow introduces social enterprise as an opportunity for some Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender/Transexual (LGBT) organizations to diversify their funding base, contribute [...] More ›
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All in the Same Boat: An Introduction to Engaged Philanthropy
Many philanthropists are successful business professionals, investors or entrepreneurs. In addition to their financial resources, they bring expertise, skills, and collegial networks that can be [...] More ›
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NESsT RAMP Peru: El Sistema de Invención e Innovación Tecnológica, Necesidades y Demandas Tecnológicos
El Proyecto RAMP Perú ha iniciado sus actividades en el Perú con una investigación que describe y analiza la situación del complejo sistema que promueve [...] More ›
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Hit the Ground Running: Getting a head start with local lessons for sustainable social enterprise (Croatia)
Hit the Ground Running draws from NESsT’s experience working in Croatia during 2005 and 2006 with 17 organizations that explored social enterprise as a sustainability [...] More ›
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Real Sustainability for Virtual Projects: A guide to self-financing for non-profit websites
A social enterprise guide for internet-based, nonprofit projects from NESsT and the Centre for Public Policy (PROVIDUS) with support from the Open Society Institute (OSI) [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Romania): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Romania
The Legal Guide (Romania) This guide examines the legal and regulatory framework that governs the use of “self-financing” (i.e., income-generating, commercial) activities of civil societyorganizations (CSOs) [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Peru): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Peru
The Legal Guide (Peru) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing the self-financing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Peru and provides an assessment [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Hungary): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Hungary
The Legal Guide (Hungary) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing social enterprise and the self-financing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Hungary and [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Ecuador): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Ecuador
The Legal Guide (Ecuador) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing the self-financing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Ecuador and provides an assessment [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Czech Republic): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Czech Republic
The Legal Guide (Czech Republic) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing the self-financing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Czech Republic and [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Croatia): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Croatia
The Legal Guide (Croatia) examines the legal and regulatory framework that governs the use of “self-financing” (i.e., income-generating, commercial) activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Colombia): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Colombia
The Legal Guide (Colombia) examines the legal and regulatory framework that governs the use of “self-financing” (i.e., income-generating, commercial) activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Chile): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Chile
The Legal Guide (Chile) examines the legal and regulatory framework that governs the use of “self-financing” (i.e., income-generating, commercial) activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Brazil): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Brazil
The Legal Guide (Brazil) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing the selffinancing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Brazil and provides an assessment of [...] More ›
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Legal Guide (Argentina): The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Social Enterprise in Argentina
The Legal Guide (Argentina) examines the legal and regulatory framework governing the self-financing activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Argentina and provides an assessment [...] More ›
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Unique & Universal: Lessons from the Emerging Field of Social Enterprise in Emerging Market Countries
A NESsT paper prepared for the Alcoa Foundation’s Social Venture/Enterprise Initiative International Forum (Racine, Wisconsin: June 19-21, 2003) Unique & Universal: Lessons from the Emerging Field [...] More ›
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The NGO-Business Hybrid: Is the Private Sector the Answer?
From NESsT and the Program on Social Change and Development at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC The [...] More ›
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Commitment to Integrity: Guiding Principles for Nonprofits in the Marketplace
An important goal of NESsT is to increase the discussion around critical ethical issues in the social enterprise field. In 2000, NESsT published Commitment to [...] More ›
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Risky Business: The Impacts of Merging Mission and Market
Risky Business examines the impact — both financial and non-financial — of entrepreneurial activities on small social change organizations. An important contribution to the growing debate [...] More ›
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NGO Venture Forum: Lessons in Self-Financing from the International Gathering
The NGO Venture Forum is a handy “primer” for anyone seeking to better understand the fundamental issues of enterprise activities in the nonprofit sector. In [...] More ›
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Profits for Nonprofits: An Assessment of the Challenges in NGO Self-Financing
Enterprise activities are not for all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), nor are they easy for those NGOs that do venture into the marketplace. Profits for Nonprofits [...] More ›
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Get Ready, Get Set: Starting Down the Road to Self-Financing
Get Ready, Get Set is designed to help the staff and board of a nonprofit organization consider their options for self-financing. Get Ready, Get Set [...] More ›
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Enterprising Mentality: A Social Enterprise Guide for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Organizations
Enterprising Mentality introduces social enterprise as a viable sustainability strategy for mental health and intellectual disability advocacy organizations. The manual offers background on self-financing activities [...] More ›
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End of the Rainbow: Increasing the Sustainability of LGBT Organizations through Social Enterprise
End of the Rainbow introduces social enterprise as an opportunity for some Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender/Transexual (LGBT) organizations to diversify their funding base, contribute [...] More ›
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All in the Same Boat: An Introduction to Engaged Philanthropy
Many philanthropists are successful business professionals, investors or entrepreneurs. In addition to their financial resources, they bring expertise, skills, and collegial networks that can be [...] More ›
