Focus

The focus is organizational change. 

Each and every day, we receive a multitude of requests from both donors and service providers who aspire to improve their communities.

We partner only with progressive donors who are truly interested in making a real difference with their dollars.

We work with them in the spirit of mutual collaboration to provide business planning, business skills development and business launch modules to organizations considering or currently involved in a social enterprise venture.

Success doesn't come from doing certain things … it comes from doing things in a certain way.

It's not about a single individual or business idea, but rather how an organization thinks and acts entrepreneurially. Throughout the course of our history, we have found that all levels of the organization (board, management and staff) think and act together to bring success to their social enterprise.

We help participants focus on the entrepreneurial process and mitigate risks along the way — our proprietary processes improve business and marketing practices and generate more revenue from mission-related activities.

The safest and best opportunities for nonprofits to achieve greater short-term financial stability is through a combination of:

1. Reducing costs (for example: cutting programs no longer needed or valued by the market, spreading overhead)
2. Improving upon existing programs that bring about earned income revenues (for example: finding new payer sources, identifying new markets, developing new programs, changing pricing policies)
3. Identifying new (well-aligned) opportunities that may exploit a specific expertise, resource and or relationship(s) and fill a specific void within today's current marketplace

Throughout its history, the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs has assembled a nationwide network of certified consultants and facilitators.

All of our associates coach their clients in a manner that fosters independence and enables them to develop the tools and techniques they will need to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavors. Clients have described this process as "transformational."