The Social Enterprise Sourcebook

Jerr Boschee's Sourcebook contains journalistic profiles of 14 nonprofits that have successfully started social sector businesses.  If you would like to download free copies of specific chapters, click below on the name of the nonprofit featured in the chapter you desire. If you would like to order an actual copy of the book, please send a check for $19 (including shipping and handling) to the address at the bottom of this page. Your check should be made out to "JERR BOSCHEE." If you are not located in the United States, please send an e-mail to institute@orbis.net for ordering instructions.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (by Jerr Boschee)

Case 1: "We ran out of cash . . . "
Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis/St. Paul
How Tony Wagner survived the failure of two businesses -- but succeeded with a third

Case 2: The demilitarized zone
St. Vincent DePaul Rehabilitation Service, Inc.
Portland, Oregon
How Roy Soards survived the culture wars

Case 3: The readiness is all
Road to Responsibility, Inc.
Marshfield, Massachusetts
How Rick Walker turned his stakeholders into risk-takers
(and created seven small businesses, with more to come)

Case 4: Buyer beware
Bobby Dodd Industries
Atlanta
How Barbara Massey escaped from a franchising nightmare
-- and formed a partnership that works

Case 5: "$36 an hour!"
Skookum Abatement Services, Inc.
Port Townsend, Washington
How Jim Westall helps former welfare recipients
earn annual salaries of $70,000 or more

Case 6: "Power comes from below . . . "
Esperanza Unida
Milwaukee
How Richard Oulahan put his trust in the people he serves
and started more than a dozen businesses

Case 7: "She was fiercely independent . . . "
Applied Industries, Inc.
Longview, Washington
How Dale Novotny's company grew without ever
taking any money from grantmakers or the government

Case 8: "We were sunk . . . "
UDAC Inc.
Duluth, Minnesota
How Bobbie Lenz and her team recovered
when their anchor customer disappeared

Case 9: Culture clash
Chrysalis
Los Angeles
How everything changed when Dave McDonough
started hiring people who knew what they were doing

Case 10: Against all odds . . .
Binding Together, Inc.
New York city
How Vince Poppiti runs a successful business
despite losing all his employees every six months

Case 11: Something had to be done . . .
Provident Counseling, Inc.
St. Louis
How Kathleen Buescher saved one business by starting another

Case 12: When Ben met Bernie . . .
Greyston Bakery
Yonkers, New York
How a Zen Buddhist priest married spirituality with social action
and forged a partnership with a major corporation

Case 13: "One truck at a time . . . "
Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Inc.
Durham, North Carolina
How Kevin McDonald built an interstate trucking company
by employing ex-cons and recovering drug addicts

Case 14: Farewell to the "client worker"
Gulf Coast Enterprises
Pensacola, Florida
How Rich Gilmartin converted a sheltered workshop into a $30 million business