Fast Company
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1. How many social enterprises operate in your community? Identify the various kinds of social enterprises in you city (or state), using Google or on or more of the following websites:
Nations Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA), http://www.ncna.org/
Corporation for National and Community Service, http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/
Ashoka, http://www.ashka.org/home/index/cfm
Social Venture Network, http://www.svn.org/
Social Enterprise Alliance, http://www.se-alliance.org/
International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, http://www.inaise.org/
Chronicle of Philanthropy, http://philanthropy.com/
2. Go to the websites of five social enterprises in your community and identify: their mission statements ways they measure the success of meeting their mission, and ways they involve volunteers. How does each website go about telling their story?
3. Go to MissionStatements.com, http://www.missionstatements.com/indexhtml, to explore various kinds of mission statements. What mission statements best appeal to you? Why?
4. Each year, the magazine Fast Company sponsors the Social Capitalist Awards (http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/articles/methodology.html) that describes the criteria that Fast Company uses to select award winners. Using these criteria, browse through the list of award winners and identify why five of these winners meet the evaluation criteria. In addition, explore how these winners tell their story, describe their mission, engage volunteers, and measure success.