Not sure about coaching? Check out these resources from CompassPoint:
- Guide to Selecting a Nonprofit Coach. Provides sample questions to ask a prospective coach along with information for rating responses. Download the PDF
- Short Video Interviews. These video clips provide first-hand accounts
- Coaching and Consulting Differences. Provides a visual table on the differences between coaching and expert consulting. Download the PDF
Organizations that Support Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurs
Resource for Entrepreneurial Nonprofits
- Something Ventured, Something Gained: A Business Development Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
(Book)
- Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization
(Book)
- Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact: A Social-Entrepreneurial Approach to Solving Social Problems
(Book)
- Mission, Inc.: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise (Social Venture Network)
(Book)
- Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs
(Book)
- Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
(Book)
- Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit
(Book)
- Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Resources for Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know
(Book)
- How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition (Book)
- How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make Money and Change the World
(Book)
- The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook: How to Start, Build, and Run a Business That Improves the World
(Book)
- The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
(Book)
- Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies
(Book)
- The Social Entrepreneurship Spectrum: For-Profit With a Social Mission (Inc. Magazine)
- How to Become a Social Entrepreneur (Inc. Magazine)