The Integrated Approach to Social Entrepreneurship:

Building High Performance Organizations

Written by Kim Alter and Vincent Dawans

This article, published in the March 2006 issue of the Social Enterprise Reporter, discusses how an integrated approach to social enterprise offers practitioners a new paradigm for creating High Performance Organizations. A social enterprise is more likely to achieve sustained social value when the enterprise is integrated within an organization's programs, operations, culture, and finance.

However, the opportunity to realize the full promise of social enterprise is being missed due to seeing it primarily a as funding, programmatic or leadership strategy. The true opportunity for social enterprise as an agent of organizational transformation lies in integrating these approaches in a way that builds high performance organizations.

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“I read your article in Social Enterprise Reporter and wanted to write to congratulate you and to support the premise that integrating social enterprise through an organization should transform it and improve mission attainment, financial performance, and the creation of a more entrepreneurial culture.”

Larry M. Fehr
Senior Vice President, Pioneer Human Services