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Institute establishes new award for high school social entrepreneurs

The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs has established "The Arthur Boschee and Evelyn Ball International Award for Social Enterprise."

Each fall, high school students around the world who are members of Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) create and launch business ventures that have at least one global component. State, national and international competitions follow during the spring and summer. The "Boschee/Ball" cash awards will be presented annually to the three national winners at the World SAGE CUP Competition whose businesses best integrate social and financial objectives.

Institute Executive Director Jerr Boschee will present the inaugural awards August 3 in Odessa, Ukraine, to the Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winners. Information about the winners will appear on this web site in September.

Please click here for additional information about both SAGE and the "Boschee/Ball Award."

Five important definitions

After years of hovering around the edges of the nonprofit sector, social entrepreneurship today has moved into the mainstream.  Venture philanthropists, traditional grant-makers, Boards of Directors, nonprofit entrepreneurs, consultants, academics and others are all rushing to the table.  But there is still confusion about terminology.

Please click here for definitions of 22 terms that might prove useful.  And here are five of the most important:

"Dependency"

The traditional business model for nonprofits, in which they depend solely or almost entirely on charitable contributions and public sector subsidies, with earned income either non-existent or minimal

" Sustainability"

The ability to fund the future of a nonprofit through a combination of earned income, charitable contributions and public sector subsidies

" Self-sufficiency"

The ability to fund the future of a nonprofit through earned income alone

" Social entrepreneur"

Any person, in any sector, who runs a social enterprise

"Social enterprise"

Any organization, in any sector, that uses earned income strategies to pursue a double or triple bottom line, either alone (as a social sector business) or as part of a mixed revenue stream that includes charitable contributions and public sector subsidies

Latest news!

*  For the third consecutive year, Jerr Boschee has been named to the nonprofit sector "Top 50 Power and Influence" list selected by The NonProfit Times.  Other 2006 honorees include Diana Aviv, President & CEO of Independent Sector; Susan Beresford, President of the Ford Foundation; David Eisner, Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service; Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Brian Gallagher, President & CEO of United Way of America; Robert K. Goodwin, President & CEO of the Points of Light Foundation; Irv Katz, President of the National Human Services Assembly; William D. Novelli, CEO of AARP; Lester M. Salamon, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies; and 40 others.  Please go to www.nptimes.com for additional information.

*  During 2007, Institute Executive Director Jerr Boschee will be teaching seminars or workshops sponsored by the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Social Enterprise Alliance, the Said School of Business at Oxford, the Visionary Leadership Institute (serving Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana), the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits, the national YWCA and the YWCA Mid-Atlantic Region, the American Humane Society, the Jacksonville Urban League, the Columbus International Program, and the TBLI (Triple Bottom Line) Paris 2007 conference.  He will also be participating in a three-day series of discussions at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and will be a judge for the international competition sponsored by SAGE (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship) in Ukraine.  Please click on the "What's New?" button at the top of this page for details.

A practitioner tells us

why a nonprofit should

become entrepreneurial

"The beauty of making a profit is that you can do a lot with the money, you can do what you want to do. You can do it how you want to do it for as long as you want to do it and you don't have to make anybody happy except your own Board and staff. You don't have to meet anybody else's expectations. That's a very freeing idea, and once you feel it, you don't want to go back to the confines of any other type of funding."

KATHLEEN BUESCHER
President and Chief Executive Officer
Provident Counseling, Inc.
St. Louis

Jerr Boschee:
Founder and Executive Director

Jerr Boschee has been an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for more than 25 years and has long been recognized as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement worldwide.  To date he's been a keynoter or conducted master classes in 42 states and 14 countries.  Jerr has also been a senior marketing executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of regional newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous academic institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford and others.  He served as President and CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs from 1991 to 1999, is one of the six co-founders of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and was named by The NonProfit Times to its nonprofit sector "Power & Influence Top 50" lists in 2004, 2005 and 2006.  Jerr also served from 2001 to 2004 as an advisor to England's Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit and is the author or editor of five books.  Please click here for his complete biography.

 "Jerr is one of the pioneers who legitimized

social entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector."

 KATIE BURNHAM
President, The Society for Nonprofit Organizations

BOOKS BY JERR BOSCHEE

For detailed information about Jerr Boschee’s

three most recent books, click here

• The Social Enterprise Sourcebook contains journalistic profiles of 14 nonprofits that successfully started social sector businesses, including candid comments by their senior managers about what they did wrong along the way.



• Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency draws upon Jerr’s 25 years in the field to capture the basic principles and critical success factors associated with social entrepreneurship. It also includes A Practical Lexicon for Social Entrepreneurs that defines more than 80 key terms, many in the form of mini-tutorials; a bibliography of print publications; and a list of annotated links to online resources.
  
• Boschee on Marketing: Positioning & Marketing Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs contains 21 columns written by Jerr for the online magazine Social Enterprise Reporter. Individual sections cover topics such as leadership, marketing fundamentals, entrepreneurial strategic planning, positioning strategies, overcoming customer resistance, strategic partnerships, pricing, marketing communications, employee communications, customer service, market research and “The Strategic Marketing Matrix for Social Entrepreneurs”®.

Please click here for ordering information, including substantial discounts for bulk orders.