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The Social Enterprise Sourcebook

 

Jerr Boschee’s Sourcebook (published in 2001) contains journalistic profiles of 14 nonprofits that successfully started social enterprises, including candid comments by their senior managers about what they did wrong along the way.

 

To download free copies of each chapter,

please click on the names of the nonprofits below.

 

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

(please note that Binding Together closed its doors because of financial difficulties in 2009,

but the parent organization has since launched a new company,

Workforce Enterprises, that uses the same training program model

and partners with nonprofits and employers to train and place the same types of clients)

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