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Social Enterprise Typology updated

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:32

We have updated and reformatted our popular Social Enterprise Typology as part of our work on the Four Lenses Framework. The typology is now available at www.4lenses.org/setypology.

seToolbelt launched!

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 14:26

Virtue Ventures recently launched Venturesource seToolbelt, a free community resource center for social enterprise practitioners featuring resources coming from the real world that can be used to conceive, plan, implement, strengthen, troubleshoot, and grow social enterprises.

Four Lenses Strategic Framework Released...

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 09:33

Virtue Ventures recently released "The Four Lenses Strategic Framework", a methodology paper that aims to move beyond stories and definitions by presenting practitioners with a conceptual framework to inform and inspire new thinking about social enterprise performance and impart strategy and management resources to help practitioners achieve high performing social enterprises.

CS Monitor interviews Kim Alter on Social Enterprise

Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 04:00

The CS Monitor has published an article titled "Charities borrow for-profit strategies to do good" following an interview with Kim Alter.

APOPO and Virtue Ventures higlighted in BusinessWeek Magazine

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 09:00

In the last part of its article titled "Social Entrepreneurs Turn Business Sense to Good", BusinessWeek Magazine talks about APOPO's transformation into a social enterprise with the support of Virtue Ventures.

The Hankyoreh (South Korean independant newspapers) interviews Kim Alter

Submitted by admin on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 12:00

In an interview with HERI, Alter says that Korea’s social entrepreneurs “need to work harder to create business plans from social issues.” She emphasizes the importance of government support, saying that countries around the world are supporting social enterprises by outsourcing government services and by providing managerial support.