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Social enterprise resources
A range of case studies, documents and blog sites are provided to assist and inspire organisations working in, or aiming to enter, the social enterprise sector.
If you would like to suggest additional resources for this page, or would like to discuss any of the content, please email Joanne McNeill.
*Please note that Parramatta City Council in no way endorses any of the content or organisations listed here. This listing is provided for information purposes only.
Useful social enterprise and related documents
Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Handbook ( 1.7 mb) Barraket_Community & Social Enterprise-what role for government ( 159.1 kb) Bedson CEDI learnings ( 596.7 kb) BSL Growing community enterprise CEDI evaln 2008 ( 857.3 kb) Cabinet Office UK innovation social enterprise ( 249.0 kb) Cabinet Office UK measuring communicating social value ( 198.8 kb) Cabinet Office UK social enterprise employment ( 335.1 kb) Cabinet Office UK social enterprise innovation ( 219.1 kb) CAF Social Enterprise In Practice ( 508.1 kb) Cooperatives Ltd_Social Enterprises Cooperatives Ltd_Social Enterprises With a Wide Market Focus ( 1.1 mb) Demos - the rise of the social entrepreneur ( 505.5 kb) Employee Ownership-Caring and Sharing ( 306.9 kb) Equal Case Studies ( 735.8 kb) GRI Community Impact reporting ( 3.8 mb) John Pearce_old wine new bottles ( 23.4 kb) nef_DIY guide to social return on investment ( 1.4 mb) nef_Homeopathic finance_2001 ( 210.3 kb) nef_Valuing What Matters_SROI ( 382.9 kb) NESsT CommitmenttoIntegrity ( 61.8 kb) Princes Trust young people and SE ( 1.1 mb) REDF Enterprises Gone But Not Forgotten Lessons Learned ( 389.9 kb) REDF If the Shoe Fits FINAL ( 1.3 mb) SEA Funding them to Fish ( 181.2 kb) SEC Guide to Social Enterprise ( 4.0 mb) SEC Healthy Business-a guide to social enterprise in health & social care ( 2.8 mb) SEC Social Enterprise Manifesto ( 2.5 mb) Skoll Foundation role of social entrepreneur ( 167.5 kb) Social Enterprise Magazine_Trailblazer ( 2.4 mb) Social Enterprise People social accounting pilot ( 661.7 kb) Sustain Ability Growing Opportunity ( 300.8 kb) UK Cabinet Office social enterprise action plan ( 1.7 mb) Victorian Government's Comm Enterprise Strategy Enterprising Communities ( 783.9 kb) Case Studies
Australian Social Enterprise case studies
Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) - Community Projects
http://www.ames.net.au/projects
Breakout and Justice Action
http://www.breakout.net.au/ and http://www.justiceaction.org.au/
Brotherhood of St Laurence – Community and Social Enterprise
http://www.bsl.org.au/main.asp
Food Connect
http://www.foodconnect.com.au
Forester’s Community Finance
http://www.forestersana.com.au
Message Stick
http://www.messagestick.com.au/
Nundah Co-op
http://www.ncec.com.au
Social Firms Australia
http://www.socialfirms.org.au/
Spectrum Employment Co-op – Property & Landscape Services
http://www.spectrumemployment.com/
Sweet Freedom
http://www.sweetfreedom.org
The Big Issue Australia
http://www.bigissue.org.au/
The Smith Family - Commercial
http://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/
Tribal Warrior Association
http://www.tribalwarrior.org/
Workventures – ITEC Repair Centre
http://www.sirc.com.au/
Australia - other resources
Australian Employee Ownership Association
www.aeoa.org.au
Australian Institute for Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.aise.net.au/
Community Builders - Enterprise
http://communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/building_stronger/enterprise/
Community Cooperative Connections (CCC) e-news
http://www.business.uts.edu.au/cacom/news/cccenews.html
Community Enterprise Resource Kit – Brotherhood of St Laurence
http://www.communityenterprise.org.au/resources.html
The Mercury Centre
www.mercury.org.au
NSW Office of Fair Trading - Cooperatives
http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/business/cooperatives.html
Social Enterprise Hubs
http://www.socialenterprisehubs.org
Social Enterprise Partnerships
http://www.partnerships.org.au/
Social Ventures Australia (SVA)
http://www.socialventures.com.au/
UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide – Social Enterprise Handbook
http://www.ucwesleyadelaide.org.au/publications/resources.htm
International social enterprise case studies
Allendale Craft Cooperative – Pebbles Cafe
http://www.pebblesartcafe.com
Beeline Store
http://www.beelinestore.com/about.html
Belu
http://www.belu.org/
Camden Garden Centre
http://www.camdengardencentre.co.uk/
Care Enterprise Partners
http://care.ca/CEP/services/assistance_e.shtm
Carpets for Communities
http://www.carpetsforcommunities.org/
Carrot Common
http://www.carrotcommon.com/history.html
CleanSlate
http://www.cleanslatechicago.org/CS/
Coin Street Community Builders
http://www.coinstreet.org/indexIE.html
Community Action Network (CAN)
http://www.can-online.org.uk/default.asp
Community Food Enterprises Ltd
http://www.community-food-enterprise.org.uk/
Community Wealth Ventures and Social Enterprise Alliance – Directory of Social Enterprises
http://208.254.27.232/
Cosmos Ignite
http://www.cosmosignite.com/about-us.htm
Counterpart International – Case Studies in Social Enterprise
http://www.virtueventures.com/cicases.php
Craig Dearden Phillips
http://www.craigdeardenphillips.com
Delancy Street Foundation
http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/
Divine Chocolate
http://www.divinechocolate.com
Focus to Work
http://www.focustowork.co.uk/about.html
Goodwin Development Trust
http://www.goodwintrust.org/
Haley House
http://www.haleyhouse.org/cafe/index.htm
Homeboy Industries
http://www.homeboy-industries.org/
Kitchens with Mission
http://www.kitchenswithmission.org/
McSence
http://www.mcsence.co.uk/
Momentum Scotland – Haven Products
http://www.momentumscotland.org/web/OurServices/HavenProducts
Neuro-Muscular Centre (NMC) Design & Print
http://www.nmcentre.com/design%2Bprint.htm
Newport Waste Savers
http://www.momentumscotland.org/web/OurServices/HavenProducts
Novas Group
http://www.novas.org/
Rainbow Grocery
http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/index2.html
Sandwell Community Caring Trust
http://home.btconnect.com/sandwellcct/trust/Who%20are%20we.htm
Skookum
http://www.skookum.org/services/social/index.html
Social Economy Bristol
http://www.socialeconomybristol.org.uk/
Spruce Carpets
http://www.sprucecarpets.org.uk/
Sweet Beginnings
http://www.nlen.org/content/index.php
The Hub
http://www.the-hub.net/
Thorplands United Football Club
http://www.thorplandsunitedfc.co.uk/
Unique Coffee Bar – Social Enterprise
http://www.uniquesocialenterprise.com/
Women Like Us
http://www.womenlikeus.org.uk/home.aspx
Other International social enterprise resources
American Planning Association – difference between a business plan and a strategic plan
http://www.planning.org/consultant/businessplan.html
Ashoka
http://www.ashoka.org/
Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CED)
http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/pages/home.asp
Canadian Cooperative Association
http://www.coopscanada.coop/
Care Enterprise Partners
http://care.ca/CEP/services/assistance_e.shtm
Citizen Base
http://www.citizenbase.org/
Changemakers
http://www.changemakers.net/journal/peace/
Community Wealth Ventures Inc
http://www.communitywealth.com/
Employee Ownership Association ( UK)
http://www.employeeownership.co.uk/
FourthSector.net
http://fourthsector.net/
Government Innovators Network
http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/topic.html?c=14
Idea Tree (UK)
http://www.ideatree.org.uk/
Innovation Exchange
http://innovation-exchange.org/
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
http://www.socialent.org/
International Cooperative Alliance
http://www.ica.coop/
Keystone Reporting
http://www.keystonereporting.org/
Non-profit Enterprise and Self-sustainability team (NESsT)
http://www.nesst.org/
Office of Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.crt.state.la.us/ltgovernor/socialentrepreneurship/
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) – Enterprising Ideas
http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/
Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE)
http://www.rise-sw.co.uk/
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.schwabfound.org/
School for Social Entrepreneurs
http://www.sse.org.uk/
Sirolli Institute
http://www.sirolli.co.uk/
Skoll Foundation
http://www.skollfoundation.org/
Social Capital Gateway
http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/
Social Capital Partners
http://www.socialcapitalpartners.ca/index.asp
Social Edge – Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.socialedge.org/resources/edge-wiki/SocialEntrepreneurship
Social and Enterprise Development Innovations
http://www.sedi.org/html/splash/index.asp
Social Enterprise Alliance
http://www.se-alliance.org/
Social Enterprise London
http://www.sel.org.uk/
Social Enterprise Magazine
http://www.socialenterprisemag.co.uk/homepage.asp
The Social Enterprise People
http://www.thesocialenterprisepeople.co.uk/
Social Enterprise Reporter
http://www.sereporter.com
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland
http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/
Social Innovation Conversations
http://www.siconversations.org/
Sroi-UK
http://www.sroi-uk.org
Stanford Social Innovation Review
http://www.ssireview.org
SustainAbility
http://www.sustainability.com/index.asp
The Tool Factory
http://www.thetoolfactory.com/index.htm
UK Cabinet Office – Social Enterprise Action Plan
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/social_enterprise/
University Network for Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.universitynetwork.org/
UnLtd
http://www.unltd.org.uk/
Virtue Ventures - Social Enterprise Typology
http://virtueventures.com/setypology/
Voluntary Gateway Canada – Social Enterprise
http://voluntarygateway.ca/en/sustainability_and_finance/social
Social enterprise and related blog sites
Catalyst Fund
http://www.catfund.com/blog
Global Ideas Blog
http://www.globalideasblog.com/
Philanthropy 2173
http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/
REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
http://www.redf.org/
Social Catalyst
http://www.socialcatalyst.co.uk/
Social ROI
http://www.socialroi.com/
The Social Business
http://thesocialbusiness.typepad.com/the_social_business/
Xigi
http://www.xigi.net/
