The Social Enterprise Sourcebook

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