The Academies for Social Entrepreneurship (ASE) in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM) are pleased to announce the launch of the Social Enterprise Academy and Venture Competition. Working with established nonprofits looking to grow, the Los Angeles Social Enterprise Academy and Venture Competition will mentor organizations on how to be more effective at expanding earned income opportunities and offer a platform to present their ventures to potential investors.
Apply for the competition here: www.academies-se.org/page11.php
Applications are due Friday, July 9, 2010 by 12noon. This 3 half-day support series will prepare you for the competition. The series focuses on those aspects of business which are most challenging to growth planning - Monday, July 19, 9:30 to 12:30 Marketing Research
Lead by Jan Cohen, Consulting Services for Nonprofits
• Evaluating Options for Growth: New Customer(s), New Services/Products, New Location(s), Partnerships, Franchises?
• Key elements of Research: Need, Demand, Critical Success Factors, Competitors.
• Lessons Learned, Advice, Tips for Who can Help you Monday, Aug 2, 9:30 to 12:30 Brand Development
Lead by Kim Castle & W. Vito Montone, BrandU®
Communicating from Uniqueness
• How to make your business (your brand) more powerful?
• How to avoid inconsistency and weakness
• Identify and articulate your uniqueness Monday, August 16th, 9:30-12:30 Developing an Organizational Budget That Promotes Strong Financial Management
Lead by Karla Salazar, Nonprofit Finance Fund
• Definitions of Key Terms and Concepts
• The Essential Budget: True Unrestricted Operating Results
• The Advanced Budget: Addressing Common Problem Areas
• The Ideal Budget: Full Costs of Doing Business
Instructor Bios Kim Castle and W. Vito Montone, co-founders of Intention Products, are business visionaries, authors, and life-long entrepreneurs—and have been working alongside Fortune 500 companies and guiding small business owners for almost two decades. With their approachable personalities and their no-guru approach, they have indelibly touched thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs throughout the world with their brilliantly insightful message and the powerful entrepreneurial curriculum they developed into BrandU, a process-based, results-driven, three-stage approach to business development created especially for creative entrepreneurs to grow beyond the confusion of possibility to the power of extreme clarity—from idea, to brand, to sales in the market.
Kim and Vito have worked tirelessly to empower business owners to gain more freedom, more money-making expression, and more life. Documented in their bestselling programs, Power Path, Brand Power, and Market Power, Kim Castle and W. Vito Montone prove that there is a reliable path to growing a business while giving customers what they want today—a deeply personal touch. Jan Cohen has been a consultant and trainer working with nonprofit organizations for more than 19 years. Her focus is customized worksessions and consulting services for nonprofit organizations throughout the country for diversification of revenue, earned income, marketing planning, and strategic planning processes. Jan partners with Social Enterprise Institute as the trainer & coach working with the participating agencies in customized Social Enterprise Academies. She also serves in Interim Executive Director positions in organizations with an earned income focus during periods of transition in leadership. In addition to her own training/consulting business, Ms. Cohen was the Director of New Business Ventures at HOPE Services for 3 years, an affiliate consultant with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in the Bay Area for 6 years, a senior consultant with the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs for 5 years, and Chief Executive Officer of Project HIRED, a nonprofit employment service serving individuals with disabilities, for 10 years. Karla V. Salazar is the Director for the Los Angeles Program Services of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). She is responsible for managing NFF’s advisory and lending services and new business development in the Los Angeles and Southern California region.
Previously, Karla served as Assistant Manager for the Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Prior to that she also served as the Field Director in Los Angeles for the California State Controller and was a financial analyst with the City of Santa Monica. She has also worked for the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles in their Racial Justice Program and the Tomás Rivera Public Policy Research Center. She has a Masters in Public Policy from Claremont University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Chicana/Chicano Studies from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2008, Ms. Salazar also completed the Executive Program in General Management at the John E. Anderson School of Management in UCLA
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