Diversifying Revenue Streams and Increasing Impact with a Social Enterprise Model

Earned revenue through marketplace mechanism allows your nonprofit to diversify its revenue streams with unrestricted dollars, and a chance to innovate your services, expand your audience, and increase your impact. This workshop will introduce the concept of social enterprise and different business model ideas, and explore some key considerations for nonprofits interested in starting a social enterprise.

Presenter: Belinda Li

Belinda Li is Founder & Chief Consultant of CiTTA Partnership (www.cittapartnership.com), a boutique business consulting firm where social impact meets business strategy. CiTTA empowers leaders of purpose-driven organizations to implement their ideas and scale their social impact in a financially sustainable way. The main services provided by CiTTA include: growth strategy, strategic planning, market feasibility studies, business modeling, and go-to-market strategy & implementation. Prior to founding CiTTA, Belinda had worked at Civic Consulting Alliance, McKinsey & Company, General Electric Healthcare, and the academia. She currently serves as Vice Chair on the Social Enterprise Alliance (National) Board, and as a Board member at-large at the Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund. In addition, Belinda serves on the Programming Committee of the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits; as a Thought Partner at the Ashoka-IKEA Dela Globalizer Program – a global systems change accelerator for social entrepreneurs; as a mentor at the Loyola Baumhart Scholars MBA program; and as a member of Forefront. Belinda holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of London, UK, and a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford, UK.

ACN has partnered Nonprofit Learning Lab (NLL) to help serve the sector by providing quick, 30-minute webinars featuring ACN members. The Nonprofit Learning Lab is a national nonprofit that connects, supports and trains individuals in the nonprofit sector. NLL offers daily online nonprofit trainings. with workshops that focus on fundraising, board development, social media, marketing, volunteer management, and organizational leadership.

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