1. As a Non Profit Organization

2. USING BUSINESS FOR THE COMMON GOOD A DOUBLE AND EVEN TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE

3.  Goodwill Industries  Baking Companies  Restaurants/Kitchens  Coffee Roasting  Homeboy Industries – Custom Apparel  Re-Use Stores for Deconstructed Building Materials  KaBoom!  Construction Business

4.  Your Mission is key and powerful to success.  Your Mission is about a social purpose.  Your Mission is about earned income strategies for perspective buyers and paid work and training for those served by your organization.  Your Mission must support financial discipline and other for profit business practices.

5.  Expand your program services  Diversify your revenue sources  Provide real paid work experience to your participants  Provide a valuable and needed service in the community  Teach your participants to be entrepreneurs  To co-create your mission with your enterprise

6.  Organizational Structure – Non Profit, For Profit or Some Other Government Structure  A business plan  A marketing plan that co-creates the product or service your Social Enterprise will provide along with the mission of your organization  Service or Product plan so that yours is the best quality and price available