Sessions in the Transitional Jobs & Social Enterprise Development Learning Track include:
Social Enterprise 101: A Model for Transitional Jobs
This session will highlight nonprofit organizations that currently operate social enterprises in order to provide jobs for individuals with significant employment barriers. Session attendees will have a chance to join in the discussion of pros and cons of social enterprise as a Transitional Jobs model, including an opportunity to role-play.
Presenters:
Cynthia Gair – Director, Portfolio and Field Advancement, REDF
Philip Arca - Executive Director, Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Lorna Jones - CEO, CVE, Inc.
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Pre-Feasibility: How to Screen and Select the Right Social Enterprise Business Idea
This session will serve as the first part in a series of 3 sessions covering the essential steps in creating a new nonprofit "business." This session will explore the best practices in pre-feasibility planning.
Presenters:
Emily Bolton – Enterprise Development Manager, REDF
Ann Cochrane – Executive Director, San Francisco Conservation Corps
Gia Grant – Executive Director, San Francisco Clean City Coalition
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Feasibility: How to Screen and Select the Right Social Enterprise Business Idea
This session will serve as the second in a series of 3 sessions covering the essential steps in creating a new nonprofit "business." This session will explore feasibility, how to screen and select the right social enterprise business idea. Unless you are familiar with business planning, conference attendees are encouraged to attend the first installment.
Presenters:
Emily Bolton – Enterprise Development Manager, REDF
Esther Kim – Portfolio Manager, REDF
Caroline Pappajohn – Enterprise Director, New Door Ventures
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Create a Business Plan: How to Screen and Select the Right Social Enterprise Business Idea This session will serve as the final installment in a series of sessions covering the essential steps in creating a new "business." This session will cover the creation of a social enterprise specific business plan. Unless you are familiar with business planning, conference attendees are encouraged to attend the first two installments.
Presenter:
Esther Kim – Portfolio Manager, REDF
David Derryck - Enterprise Director, Juma Ventures
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The Cost of Doing Good: Defining & Tracking Social Costs
Social enterprises designed to employ people with barriers to employment take on costs beyond those of a typical business. What are those costs? How can they be forecasted and tracked? This conference session is designed to help providers think about these critical questions.
Presenters:
Esther Kim – Portfolio Manager, REDF
Karen Goore – Former Director of Business Enterprises & Director of Marketing and Development, CVE, Inc.
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Hot Topics in Social Enterprise: Profitability, Scale/Impact, Youth Employment, and Education
(Roundtable Discussions)
Three topics that are hot in social enterprise discussion circles will be explained briefly before attendees break out into discussion groups. The topics are: profitability, scale/impact, and youth employment and education
Presenters:
Ann Cochrane – Executive Director, San Francisco Conservation Corps
Cynthia Gair – Director, Portfolio and Field Advancement, REDF
Carla Javits – President, REDF
