for-profit social ventures what are they – how do they create social value?
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WHAT IS A FOR-PROFIT SOCIAL VENTURE?
Social Ventur
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For-Profit
Venture
Social Venture: Organization designed to create positive environmental or social value for a community.
For-Profit Venture: Organization designed to create financial value for its shareholders and owners.
For-Profit Social Venture: Organization designed to create positive environmental or social value for a community while creating financial value for its shareholders and owners
COMMON FEATURES OF FPSVS
- Firm is designed to create a specific social or environmental benefit/value
- Firm leverages specific operational practices to create social value
- Firm adheres to double or triple bottom line in decision making
- Firm measures success in terms of social value creation as well as financial valuation using explicit metrics
- Firm defines social/environmental aims in fundamental documents
- Firm cultivates a culture of social priorities
VARIETIES OF FPSVS
Activist
Firm uses its brand to promote a social cause and is driven primarily by social value creation
Social Value Driven
Financial Value Driven
Promotes Social Value to
relevant actors
Activist Market Pioneers
Does not promote social
value to relevant actors
Change Agents Market Influencers
Change Agent
Firm is focused on creating a social/environmental benefit but doesn’t use its brand to promote the cause
Market Pioneer
Firm is driven by financial incentives but promotes a social cause through business dealings or “corporate responsibility” leadership
Market Influencer
Firm is primarily financially oriented and doesn’t explicitly promote a cause but generally adheres to strong social or environmental standards and practices
TERMINOLOGY
B-Corp: Benefit Corporation - FPSV
Social Enterprise*: Social Venture - FPSV and SV
501(c)3: Legal Non-Profit - SV
LLC: Limited Liability Corporation or C-Corp - FPV
L3C: Limited Liability Low-Profit Corporation – FPV and FPSV
Hybrid Venture: combination of for-profit and social venture – FPSV
CREATING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE
- Product or Service is intrinsically beneficial
- Supply Chain Interventions- Internal Operations- Advocacy and Philanthropy- Ethics
PRODUCT OR SERVICE
The product or service offered by the company is intrinsically beneficial to the community
SUPPLY CHAIN
- Selecting Vendors by social/environmental value
- Encouraging lower prices to reach underserved communities
- Establishing relationships with minority or women-owned vendors and suppliers
- Using purchasing power to encourage social values in suppliers and vendors
INTERNAL OPERATIONS
- Encouraging pro-social company management (women or minority management)
- Encouraging pro-social employment
- Engaging pro-social employment
- Encouraging pro-social company location
- Paying living wages
ADVOCACY AND PHILANTHROPY
- Using company brand and advertising space to promote a cause
- Management spearheading social cause
- Use corporate profits to make philanthropic donations
- Use corporate foundation to make regular philanthropic donations
- Encouraging a culture of volunteerism and philanthropy amongst employees
ETHICS
- Creating statements, committees or policies to articulate and act upon ethical behavior
- Creating an internal culture of ethical standards by engaging in regular discussion with employees and management
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Sources: RiseProject.org “For-Profit Social Entrepreneur Report.” Clark, Catherine: Ucak, Selen. March 2006
Cause Capitalism “15 Social Venture Capital Firms That You Should Know About.” April 2010
“For-Profit Social Ventures” Dees, Gregory: Andreson, Beth; Social Entrepreneurship. 2003
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