The Nonprofit Consultants Network*
presents its 2007 public forum

Social Enterprise:
Enhancing the Mission, Generating Revenue

Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are advancing their missions through a variety of business ventures. These organizations seek to diversify their revenue streams in order to achieve sustainability. For example, museums expand their merchandising business; public radio stations promote vehicle donation programs; community-based organizations manage catering businesses and even revolving loan funds. Social entrepreneurship is a trend that is catching the eye of nonprofit leaders. Some of these activities have a clear fit with the organizations missions. Other activities have only a peripheral connection to the mission and pose a variety of risks. Our program features researchers and practitioners in the social entrepreneurship arena who will share their successes and lessons learned.

Please join us for a consideration of these issues.

Thursday, May 24th, 2:30 at 4:30 PM
The Philanthropic Initiative
160 Federal Street, 8th floor
Boston, MA
Panelists include:

Mark Rosenman, Union Institute and University
Sharon Smith, Road to Responsibility
Evelyn Friedman, Nuestra Comunidad CDC
Carolyn Noah, Central Massachusetts Region Library System



Please note that SPACE IS LIMITED and pre-registration is required
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To register, send a check payable to CNEN/NCN for $10 to:

NCN
c/o TDC
31 Milk Street, Suite 310
Boston, MA 02109

no later than May 18.

Please include your:

Name + Organization
Mailing Address
Email, Phone, Fax


*The Nonprofit Consultants Network (formerly Consultants Network for Excellence in Nonprofits) is a Massachusetts-based professional network of consultants and capacity builders who work with nonprofit organizations. We meet monthly for networking, sharing, and peer learning. We host an annual "public meeting" like this one on topics of interest to the nonprofit community with the dual purpose of stimulating important conversations among our colleagues and clients, and promoting NCN.