Business plan for a new initiative or social enterprise
You have a game-changing idea for a new venture, but you can't get it on paper in a way that funders will take seriously.
What you'll achieve
We help you build a full business plan for a new product, program, or social enterprise -- including financials, risks, and execution steps.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Work with you to define the offer, test the model, build the financials, and write a business plan that is credible to funders, partners, and internal decision-makers.
Key deliverables
- Business plan document, financial model and assumptions, implementation roadmap, risk analysis, executive summary, pitch-ready summary materials.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Thinking Through the Business Model
A short worksheet from Nonprofit Finance Fund that helps a nonprofit team describe its business model. It has 6 prompts: mission, market (who receives services and who pays for them), programmes, expenses, revenue and outreach. Teams fill it in together, often before a budget or strategy session, to see how the parts connect and where money and mission pull apart.
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Start Your Social Enterprise
A 28-page start-up guide for people setting up a social enterprise or trading venture. After an introduction to what social enterprise is, it has chapters on mission, market, money, social impact, people, sales and marketing, legal structure, the business plan and looking after yourself, ending with a summary. Founders work through it chapter by chapter as they shape their plan.
Start hereClassicKey manual or guideFree
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