Start Up Funds

Venture Philanthropy. Social Enterprise and Earned Income generally require two major elements,” a business plan and start-up funding. The latter is clearly true of any business but start-up funds are  not as immediately obvious, although when you think about any particular plan it is obvious. This is one of those elements that supporters of nonprofits are not used to providing and that development workers generally know how to create.

But there is one advantage. If your organization has business founders or managers they may well be used to hearing the language and given a good business plan, which they might help to write this will be very familiar to them. So in addition to helping write the plan they will support what you are doing and what it will get and will be of wonderful assistance to knowing where these funds are and how to get them.

This is where you turn one of those critical board members or supporters into a supportive wonderful person of great help to you and your organization.