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Benefits of using DV

Demonstrating Value solutions will enable you to get the support you need for the enterprise and to strengthen your management and planning decisions by giving you the information you need, when you need it, including:

  • Operational information to support daily decisions.
  • Big-picture information to help you to adapt and plan for the future.
  • Convincing information about your value to attract investment and community support.

Because every social enterprise is different, Demonstrating Value has been designed to be flexible enough to work with social enterprises that are at different stages of development, are in different lines of business, and pursue different social and environmental missions. While Demonstrating Value solutions have been developed with social enterprise in mind many elements are equally applicable to non-profit organizations and standard businesses.

What do you need to do?

How we can help

Understand your financial performance.

Get good financial data.

  • Tools to help you optimize financial accounting to meet unique social enterprise needs.
  • Guidance on using key financial data (key performance metrics).
  • Ways to portray financial data to engage staff, board, others.

Balance and manage multiple objectives.

  • The Performance Snapshot help you see connections between goals.
  • Process to ensure you are adequately monitoring different objectives.
See the risks on the horizon.
  • Tools to map your goals and tasks, identify gaps and find solutions.
Find out what to 'measure.'
  • Methods to help you pinpoint what information is most important and possible to collect.
  • Tools that provide guidance on what to measure.
Show your value to investors and others in the community.
  • Tools to help you track and assess your value.
  • Advice on how to effectively communicate your story using numbers, charts, text and pictures.
Be in control of reporting so that it meets your needs, is efficient and integrated.
  • Processes to map your information and reporting needs.
  • Social Enterprise Snapshot report templates for the most common types of social enterprises. (coming soon)
  • Guide to developing effective reporting using a Social Enterprise Snapshot.
Share what you've learned with others.
  • Instruction on how to develop interactive tools to share your information on the web.
  • Advice on how to effectively share what you've learned using numbers, charts, text and pictures.

Demonstrating Value for your Social Enterprise 

Demonstrating Value solutions are applicable to social enterprises that:

  • Work in different lines of business (e.g. manufacturing, retail, market facilitation).
  • Address different community objectives (e.g. social, environmental and cultural objectives).
  • Are structured differently (e.g. are part of, or associated with non-profit organizations, are independent, cooperatives, for profit).

Read further to see how Demonstrating Value can help social enterprises in different areas. 

 Creating Alternative Markets
 Reaching Underserved Markets
 Generate Core Funding

Whether creating a brand new market like shared cars or providing product alternatives like green landscaping, social enterprises are often at the forefront of innovation. Demonstrating Value can help these types of social enterprises:

  • Achieve the financial performance and efficiencies needed to develop the market.
  • Demonstrate to customers, and potential customers, the value delivered by your enterprise. 
  • Communicate the impact the new product/market has on the broader community. 

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One reason why social enterprises are started is to provide goods and services to underserved communities, and to promote community economic development. These types of organizations can use Demonstrating Value to: 

  • Manage fundraising. 
  • Tightly track financial performance. 
  • Track community engagement and impact. 
  • Communicate the value of reaching this market.
  • Prepare financial and annual reports. 

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 Many non-profits start social enterprises with the primary goal of generating revenue for the parent organization. These social enterprises can use Demonstrating Value to:

  • Track financial performance to goals.
  • Create reports for the parent organization to understand both the sustainability of the enterprise, and the impact it has on the parent organization. 

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Supportive Employment
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Many social enterprises are developed to provide supportive employment to those who face barriers to employment. Demonstrating Value helps you: 

  • Link employment to social impact indicators.
  • Balance social objectives with business objectives.
  • Demonstrate the social value of  creating meaningful, valuable employment.
  • Isolate the 'social costs' of providing supportive employment to help with planning and to fundraising.  

 

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Demonstrating Value is flexible enough to work with any type of social enterprise


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Or contact us to learn how  Demonstrating Value may be relevant for your social enterprise.