The Mission-Driven Venture : Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social Problems.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Website -- Chapter 1 Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job -- Father G" and Homeboy -- Vanessa Bartram and WorkSquare, LLC -- The Origin of Mission-Driven Ventures -- Businesses Drive Social Change -- Profits and Purpose -- Our Agenda -- Chapter 2 Where to Begin? Constructing the Mission-Driven Venture -- Maximizing the Prospects of Financial Success and Meaningful Social Impact -- Step One: Reality Check -- Step Two: Testing the Feasibility of the Mission-Driven Venture -- Tracking Input, Output, and Outcome Indicators -- Entity Design Choices -- Moving from Ideation to Realization -- Preparing for Launch -- Finally, It's Time for the Mission-Driven Entrepreneur to Give Life to His Vision -- Zeroing in on Size and Scale -- Chapter 3 Communities of Interest: Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corps -- Delaware Rejects Stakeholderism -- The Benefit Corporation's Impact -- Delaware, the Outlier -- Patagonia's Values and Vision -- Public Good Software Supports Civil Society -- Ensuring Accountability to Stakeholders -- Chapter 4 PRIs and L3Cs -- The Low-Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C) -- The "Sustainability Mayor" Leverages His Impact -- Counseling Data, L3C: A Case Study in Collective Impact -- Chapter 5 The Poor and Their Banker Lead the Way -- Professor Yunus' Journey -- The Visit to Jobra -- The Banking System's Failure -- Yunus' Ingenious Solution -- The Advent of the "Social Business -- Grameen Bank and Its Strategy -- Chapter 6 Leveraging Grameen -- The Power of Cause-Related Marketing -- The Grameen Family Expands -- Social Venture Franchising -- Grameen Empowers Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 7 The Mondragón Miracle: Scaling the Peaks Beyond the Pyrenees -- Italy's "Social Co-Operatives -- France's "SCOPs.

Why Worker-Owned Co-Ops Succeed -- The Evergreen Cooperatives Build on Mondragón's Success -- Chapter 8 Social Impact Bonds: Aligning Financial and Social Returns -- Funding Targeted Intervention Strategies -- Pay for Success -- The Massachusetts Initiative -- New York City Leads the Way -- Pay for Success Gains Traction -- Where Social Impact Bonds Work -- The Social Impact Bond's Progeny -- Empowering the Social Sector -- Chapter 9 Building and Rebuilding Communities -- Donor-Advised Funds -- The Role Foundations Play -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 10 Investing for Impact -- The Origin of Impact Investing -- Impact Investing Takes Root -- Chapter 11 How Impact Investing Works-and Why -- The Form of the Investment -- Managing Risk -- Judging Investment Performance -- Quantifying Social Returns -- Cashing Out -- The Challenges of an Impact Investing Market -- Chapter 12 Impact Investing: Pursuing Its Destiny -- The Importance of Public Policy -- The Institutional Investors Weigh In -- The Growth Trajectory Is Clear -- Chapter 13 Keeping Score: What Success Looks Like -- A Safe Haven's Social Impact -- Crediting the Causes of Positive Social Change -- REDF and Social Return on Investment -- Root Capital and Its "Social and Environmental Scorecard -- Acumen Fund and Its "Best Alternative Charitable Option -- Chapter 14 Answering the Call: The Demand for Social Metrics -- Scaling Success -- Case in Point: BUILD -- Shared-Outcomes Networks -- Case in Point: The Campaign to Eradicate Polio -- Case in Point: Charity:Water -- Making the Cut: Accounting to Investors -- Chapter 15 Toward a Universal Metrics Language -- Creating More Social Good -- The Industry Steps Up -- Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) -- The Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) -- B Analytics -- Other "Universal" Standards -- The World Takes Note.

Chapter 16 What the Future May Hold: The Triumph of the Mission-Driven Venture -- The Poorest of the Poor Have Reason for Hope -- The Growing Role of Business -- Social Enterprise Gains Influence in the Developing World -- Business Raises the Bar -- Governments Reach Out to Mission-Driven Ventures -- Measurement of Social Performance Becomes More Sophisticated -- Stakeholders Look to Substance Over Form -- Social Capital Takes Center Stage -- The Stakes Go Higher -- Collaboration Becomes the Watchword -- Index -- EULA.

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