GSEC Resources

Templates and Examples for Required GSEC Materials:

  1. Required Materials for GSEC
  2. Example Overview PowerPoint (PPT) Slide
  3. Finalist PPT Presentations & Videos
  4. Judging Criteria

Preparing for GSEC Week

  1. Writing the Social Venture Business Plan
  2. Business Planning Guide to Developing a Social Enterprise
  3. Writing a  Compelling Executive Summary
  4. Prepare Your Pitch: 2011 Social Innovation Fast Pitch Winners
  5. Pitching and Presenting
  6. 5 Tips for a Winning Pitch
  7. Improve Your Presentation: Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes
  8. GSEC on the Foster School blogvideos, updates, and resources from the 2012 GSEC, 2011 Social Ideas to Global Ventures workshop, and more!
  9. 2011 UW Social Ideas to Global Ventures workshop - watch videos from experts on how to develop, market, pitch and seek funding for a viable social venture
  10. Online Social Entrepreneurship Course - particularly section 4 - measuring impact and section 5 - achieving sustainability
  11. PATH's Commercialization Toolkit

Calculating SROI and Health Metrics

  1. Global Impact Investing Network
  2. Impact Reporting & Investment Standards
  3. MFI Social performance task force
  4. Measuring and/or Evaluating Social Value Creation
  5. REDF's Approach to SROI
  6. SROI Excel Model
  7. Measuring Social Impact
  8. Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Social Impact Assessment
  9. The SROI Network
  10. Foundation Center – Tools & Resources for Assessing Social Impact
  11. New Economics Foundation – A Guide to SROI
  12. WHO Resource for Quantifying Health and SROI
  13. Calculating QALYs, comparing QALY and DALY calculations

Useful Social Enterprise Resources

  1. Socialedge
  2. Stanford Social Innovation Review
  3. Intellecap
  4. William James Foundation
  5. BiD Network
  6. Next Billion
  7. GSEC Resources, prepared by Drew Tulchin, Social Enterprise Associates