In this lesson, discover how to achieve operational efficiency for your social enterprise. We’ll explore 10 key strategies to ensure financial viability and scalable impact, from defining your core offering to leveraging technology and fostering local leadership.
🎯 Learning Objectives
• Define your core package and standardize operations while allowing for local tailoring.
• Understand the benefits of digitizing processes and decentralizing operations.
• Learn strategies for shortening the last mile and fostering local leadership.
• Explore how to leverage existing channels and technology to achieve financial viability.
• Embrace lean operational practices to minimize overhead and maximize impact.
📚 About the Course
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create real change? You don’t have to start your own organization to make a difference in the world. Everyone can learn the social entrepreneurship mindset and skillset to build social impact. In this course, you will immerse yourself in a social or environmental challenge you want to tackle. You’ll start by researching your topic of choice, talking to people, and ideating a potential solution that you can contribute. Then, you’ll build a business model around that solution, understanding concepts like measuring social change, ensuring financial viability, funding and pitching.
This course is a safe space to experiment and explore. You’ll be guided by a ten stage framework to help structure your journey. Along the way, you’ll hear from social entrepreneurs around the world through case studies and campus conversations. These include Yale alumni, members of the New Haven community, and global changemakers. Everyone is welcome to join this course! You can apply your lived, learned, or professional experience to discover how you’re going to make a difference.
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