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Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Social Enterprise and the Conversion from For-Profit to Nonprofit Form
WCLV-FM, Cleveland's long time for-profit classical radio station, is in the process of transferring its ownership to a new nonprofit foundation.
 by Dennis R. Young
Social Enterprise in the United States and Abroad; Learning from our Differences
A paper that provides very helpful context for the ongoing debates about Social Enterprise by exploring the different meanings people give to the still contested term.
 by Janelle Kerlin
Social Enterprise in the United States; Alternate Identities and Forms

When should an organization or group of people that wants to achieve a social goal adopt a for-profit form - become a business - and when a nonprofit form? This paper explores the issues and offers a way of thinking about this increasingly fashionable dilemma.


 by Dennis R. Young
Task Force Report; New Ventures and Strategic Philanthropy
This report presents a framework for exploring the motivation that nonprofits have for engaging in commercial ventures, and the response of those who fund them.
 by Howard P. Tuckman
Enterprising Nonprofits

Research that provides a good overview of the experience of nonprofits that have established commercial businesses. This was one of the first substantial benefits of the Yale Goldman Sachs Social Venture Business Plan Competition.


 by Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker
Museums, Merchandising, and Nonprofit Commercialization
This paper sheds light on the prospects and perils of museum merchandising and auxiliary activity  - do they really add significant value - and do so against the background of the current commercialization debate.    
 by Stefan Toepler and Volker Kirchberg
Searching for Social Entrepreneurs; Who they might be, Where they might be found, What they do.

Further very useful context for the debate on Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. The paper reviews a wide range of  literature and practice.


 by Paul Light
The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship

One of the first attempts to pin down the meaning of the term Social Entrepreneur.


 by J. Gregory Dees