Unique Ingredients for Impacting

Social Actions

Net Impact. ESADE

Octubre, 2010

Topics

OUR INSPIRATION:

THE STONE SOUP STORY….

Solidarity

Dynamism

Collaboration

Innovation

Creativity

Professionalism

AND NOW:

OUR VERSION OF THE STORY….

Expertise

Facilitation

multisciplinarity

International vision

Best practices

Mix of NF/FP

methodologies

Training

Experience

Competence

Knowledge

Resources

Stone Soup Community

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Increased social impact

€ Strategy &

Operations

Scaling-up

Social Business Plan

Impact Evaluation

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STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS

Why engage in a

strategic/operational

formulation or

review?

•To increase coherence

between mission and

action

•To improve

effectiveness of a

project, a programme, a

portfolio or an

organisation

•To create a solid

framework for action

•To motivate people and

improve team spirit

•To support change

management processes

SOCIAL BUSINESS MODEL

Evaluation and Improvement of Social Business Model

Joint identification of areas for improvement and development or review of monitoring mechanisms

Coaching during the implementation phase

Stone Soup team assists the organisation in establishing an adequate governance system, as well as functional strategies and plans. Our team also helps it identify and implement change management tactics

Elaboration/Review of the Business Plan

Our consultants work with the client team either to develop a social business plan or review its systems and plans so as to embed social components.

Elaboration/Evaluation of the Business Model

Based on a diagnosis of the organisation and using facilitating methods, we assist in defining or redefining a business idea, to fit a social purpose.

Why create a Social

Business Model?

•To help sustain a social

initiative

•To integrate social

goals into a for-profit

company

•To improve / guarantee

the effectiveness of a

social initiative

•To optimise the social

and ecological footprint

of the organisation

IMPACT EVALUATION

Why engage in an

impact evaluation

process?

•To learn from

experience

•To

confirm/demonstrate

long-term results

•To improve

effectiveness of a

project, programme or

portfolio

•To prepare for

scaling-up the social

impact

SCALING UP

Why Scale-up?

•To achieve the

mission established

by the leader of the

initiative

•To create a better

and wider impact

•To expand the scope

of an action

•To build synergies,

and to enrich and

complement ideas,

projects or

programmes

•To create a virtuous

sustainability circle.

Social investors

Social entrepreneurs,

Venture philantropists,

NGOs

Companies,…

Build social communities

Promote sound social

investments

Strenghten Impact

Generate collective

knowledge

Case study Financial

Sustainability

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Identity

Support to Scaling- Up

(portugal pilot)

Globlization strategy

Systematization of Experiences –Simplification of

methodology

Coordination of scaling-up

process

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Financial Sustainability

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IdentityStrategy

Scaling-up

implementation

Support to Scaling- Up

(portugal pilot)

Scaling-up Globlization strategy

Open Source?

Earned Income?

Impact generation?

Social Business Models

Scaling-up

Systematization

of Experiences –

Simplification of

methodology

Scaling-up

Coordination of scaling-up

process

More than 250 communities.

Around 13.000 members

More

information…

www.stone-soup.net

THANK YOU! Sophie Robin

Partner – Spain

+ 34 634 937 650

Sophie.robin@stone-soup.net

Skype: sarobin