Business Models for Social Enterprise

Start thinking about how to design your business model to deliver positive impact!

Use this tool to:

  1. Understand different business models that are commonly used in social enterprise.

  2. Understand when each one would be most effective to deliver positive impact.

How to use this tool:

This resource is designed to help you consider and plan how you could generate revenue to make a positive social or environmental impact. As a potential or early stage social enterprise, you will need to balance both a business model and business obligations, with what we call an impact model and any impact obligations.

You need a strong business model and growth strategy that will enable you to generate enough revenue and profit in order to be sustainable over the long term and continue to deliver positive impact.

Try combining this guide with the Social Lean Canvas planning tool.