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Make the business of society your business

No one knows the business of social entrepreneurship better than Rupert Scofield. Cofounder and president of FINCA International--a nonprofit microfinancing institution with 7,000 employees serving 750,000 customers in 21 countries--Scofield has been a social entrepreneur for 40 years.

In The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook , Scofield leads you through the entire process of starting up and running a nonprofit, sharing personal success stories and advice on what not to do--valuable lessons he learned the hard way. The process, while risky, isn't as difficult as you might think. Practically speaking, you need only two things: an idea and a plan. The former comes from you and you alone. This book supplies the latter.

The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook illuminates the path to building a successful nonprofit from the ground up. You'll learn how to:

Create a realistic plan for getting started in your chosen cause Assemble the perfect team for putting your plan into action--and keeping it rolling in the right direction Develop a business model specifically designed to run a nonprofit organization Keep yourself, your staff, and your cause in solid financial shape

One of the many beauties of social entrepreneurship is that it's never too late to start. You can be right out of school or working in the highest ranks of corporate America. It doesn't matter. Social entrepreneurship begins with a noble cause, which turns into a passion, and soon becomes a mission worth dedicating your life to.

The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook is the one and only resource you will need to attain your dream of working full-time in service to others--and making a real, measurable difference in the world.

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• Preface(p. v)
• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Part 1 Righting The Unrightable Wrong and Finding Your Mission Possible(p. 1)
• 1 Identifying Your Constituency and Arranging Your Apprenticeship(p. 5)
• 2 The Big Idea and Finding a Mentor(p. 19)
• Part 2 It Takes an Asylum(p. 29)
• 3 We Few, We Happy Few: The Founding Fathers(p. 31)
• 4 Wanted: Resourceful Humans: Recruiting the Best Minds Money Can't Buy(p. 41)
• 5 Still Wanted: More Resourceful Humans: And the Interview Techniques to Find Them(p. 57)
• 6 Managing Them: On the Herding, Roping, and Hog-Tying of Cats(p. 71)
• 7 Continuing to Manage, and Staying in Touch(p. 85)
• 8 Leading Them: Finding Your Inner Andre Previn(p. 93)
• Part 3 Money Does Grow on Trees, But You Have to Plant them First(p. 103)
• 9 The Private Pillar: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?(p. 105)
• 10 Private Pillar Pitfalls: Sponsorship Programs and Dealing with Donors(p. 119)
• 11 The Power of the Other Pillars: Public and Internal(p. 133)
• 12 Communication: From ôWho? ö to Wheaties(p. 143)
• Part 4 Not Rocket Science: Structure, Systems, Technology, and Strategy(p. 157)
• 13 Your Organization's Structure and Business and Financial Models(p. 159)
• 14 Systems: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Systems!(p. 173)
• 15 Strategy: Getting Beyond ôEverybody Go Longö(p. 185)
• Part 5 Thriving and Surviving(p. 197)
• 16 But It Used to Work So Well!: The Time and Place for Innovation(p. 199)
• 17 Governance by Dummies: Wise Counsel or Micromanagement by the Ignorant?(p. 211)
• 18 Humanitarians at the Gate: Surviving and Thriving in the Treacherous World of the Modern Nonprofit(p. 229)
• Afterword: The Next Phase of Social Entrepreneurialism: Expanding, Diversifying, and Scaling the Model(p. 247)
• Index(p. 259)

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This handbook will interest anyone who is socially driven and looking for a way to make a difference in the world. Scofield (cofounder and president, nonprofit microfinancing institution) draws on the knowledge he gained from a long career in international development to detail the steps in building a nonprofit. Each of the book's five sections begins with an essay by the author about his experiences in social entrepreneurship. He begins the book by imploring anyone interested in social entrepreneurship to have a "poverty experience." Scofield explains key elements of social entrepreneurship: finding one's mission, managing people, fund raising, marketing communications, establishing a strong business model, and developing an appropriate business strategy and financial systems. The book concludes with a discussion on innovation and how to keep an organization prosperous and moving forward. The book is peppered with Scofield's tales from his Peace Corps service and adventures in international development, as well as the views of many individuals he encountered in his own calling. This is a motivational read for anyone interested in a career in the nonprofit world. See related, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know, by David Bornstein and Susan Davis (CH, Oct'10, 48-0968). Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; students, upper-division and up; faculty; practitioners. N. E. Furlow Marymount University

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Rupert Scofield is president and CEO of FINCA International. Under his leadership, FINCA has grown from 60,000 clients and a loan portfolio of $5 million to more than 750,000 clients and a loan portfolio of more than $300 million. An agricultural economist, Scofield has 30 years' experience as a social entrepreneur in Africa, Latin America, Eurasia, and the Middle East.