Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model It was standing room only at the Social Enterprise Conference of 2009. Students in attendance indicated that the evaporation of high-paying jobs made it easier to choose work they cared about. Some leaders reference social enterprise as “blended value” to describe Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model We are the Hope Movement. We are dedicated to Eradicating Malnutrition by squaring the efforts of everybody involved. And letting people duplicate their efforts worldwide at the touch of a phone, the sending of an email, or a face-to-face encounter to Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model I told Social Entrepreneur, Sam Caster, on the phone that my perception of addressing malnutrition included the picture of a large truck traveling down a dirt road in Africa. It pulls up to a small village characterized by children who are Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model Here’s the advice of Muhammud Yunus the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for his work as a social entrepreneur and as the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He created the micro finance concept for addressing poverty. He said that Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model Through the years, I have paid close attention to Sam Caster, the founder of MannaRelief. He is a cutting edge business leader. He monitors the pulse of effective business and has a big heart to help children around the world. Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model One reason social enterprise is such a great idea is because the charity model, or the nonprofit organization model, is short on sustainability. In 2008 when America experienced a recession nearly 500 nonprofit organizations closed their doors. Their donor bases dried up. I Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model The last blog post included the three Social Enterprise models. Cause marketing, buy-one-give-one, and the Hope Movement model where both consumers and recipients are equally impacted by the same product. However, one more dynamic cannot be overlooked. The Hope Movement Model also Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model There are three Social Enterprise models. Cause Marketing is where you buy a product of any kind from a business and in exchange they make a donation to a particular social cause. This is good, but this does not connect Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model Every time you choose to nourish yourself, the Hope Movement helps nourish a child with the same whole food nutrients. That’s right, instead of attacking childhood malnutrition with the cheapest and most highly processed ingredients; our model provides these children with the Read more
Experience the Hope Movement Know the Social Enterprise Business Model The Hope Movement is a social enterprise that combines a for-profit business model with the social outreach of a non-profit organization to address a global issue—malnutrition among children. This value-driven approach to business refocuses direct sales toward more constructive objectives than just Read more