Your favorite business plan resource?

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Original message from: drew@socialenterprise.net

Dear Colleagues,

I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international NGO
leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your recommendations
for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with them - either a book,
computer program, online source, or article - to assist them.

Best,
Drew Tulchin
drew@socialenterprise.net
202-256-2692

Social Enterprise Associates - <blocked::http://www.socialenterprise.net>
www.socialenterprise.net
New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
Development

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Original message from: radhika.batra@gmail.com

Check this out. Also search online for something called
http://barefootmba.wordpress.com/curriculum/





On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin <drew@socialenterprise.net>
wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international
NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your
recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with them -
either a book, computer program, online source, or article - to assist
them.

Best,
Drew Tulchin
drew@socialenterprise.net
202-256-2692

*Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** *
New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
Development





--
Radhika Batra
9982017231

"1 year is a long time? By some measures it is. But it is only 1.5% of your
life. And if it is to serve as an inflection point for the remaining 98.5%,
then I think it's a chance you have to be willing to take." – Rish Sanghvi
'02.

Indicorps – Service for the Soul (www.Indicorps.org)

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Original message from: mcleary@jfvs.com

We use the online Interactive Business Planner out of Canada with our
microenterprise clients. It's free, fairly easy to use, and available in
both English and French. While geared at small business, several of the
grassroots immigrant organizations we work with have also used it for
business planning - we just help them look at how sections focused on
small business relate to nonprofit operations. It's a helpful tool. URL
is http://canadabusiness.gc.ca/ibp/en/index.cfm

Mary Cleary
Multicultural Services
Jewish Family & Vocational Service
(502) 452-6341

JFVS - Celebrating 100 Years of Service in 2008


________________________________

From: bounce-2630631-5317780@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-2630631-5317780@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Drew
Tulchin
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:02 PM
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Subject: Your favorite business plan resource?


Dear Colleagues,

I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international
NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your
recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with
them - either a book, computer program, online source, or article - to
assist them.

Best,
Drew Tulchin
drew@socialenterprise.net
202-256-2692

Social Enterprise Associates - www.socialenterprise.net
<blocked::http://www.socialenterprise.net>
New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
Development

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Original message from: pstahl@cspnj.org

Drew,

Also, take a look at Business Plan Pro. The website is:

http://www.businessplanpro.com/?gcli...FQQRGgodqGt33Q

Very straight forward, easy, complete and profession. The end product looks great!

Peter Stahl
Community Enterprises Corporation, a subsidiary of
Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey
11 Spring Street
Freehold, NJ 07728
Telephone:732-780-1175 ext 27
Facsimile:732-780-8977
Emailstahl@cspnj.org
www.cspnj.org


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From: bounce-2630631-4989930@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-2630631-4989930@list.cornell.edu]On Behalf Of Drew Tulchin
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:02 PM
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Subject: Your favorite business plan resource?


Dear Colleagues,

I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with them - either a book, computer program, online source, or article - to assist them.

Best,

Drew Tulchin
drew@socialenterprise.net
202-256-2692

Social Enterprise Associates - <blocked::http://www.socialenterprise.net> www.socialenterprise.net
New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic Development

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Original message from: johnl@floridacdc.org

Drew. Here is a link to some self help business plan creation
materials on my website:

http://www.floridacdc.org/forms/bus-plan.htm



On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin <drew@socialenterprise.net>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international
> NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your
> recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with them -
> either a book, computer program, online source, or article - to assist
> them.
>
> Best,
> Drew Tulchin
> drew@socialenterprise.net
> 202-256-2692
>
> *Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** *
> New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
> Development
>
>



--
Radhika Batra
9982017231

"1 year is a long time? By some measures it is. But it is only 1.5% of your
life. And if it is to serve as an inflection point for the remaining 98.5%,
then I think it's a chance you have to be willing to take." – Rish Sanghvi
'02.

Indicorps – Service for the Soul (www.Indicorps.org)

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Original message from: assetsmontco@bee.net

Drew, Not sure if you received from me yet, here is the link to my
organizations web site, we supply small business training course, mentoring
and technical assistance.

www.assetsmontco.org

Charles E. Budd
Director of Advancement
ASSETS Montco.
610.275.3520 Office
610.382.0001 Fax
cbudd@assetsmontco.org
www.assetsmontco.org
http://assetsmontcoblog.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-2632587-4991432@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-2632587-4991432@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
johnl@floridacdc.org
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:55 AM
To: Drew Tulchin
Cc: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Re: Your favorite business plan resource?

Drew. Here is a link to some self help business plan creation materials on
my website:

http://www.floridacdc.org/forms/bus-plan.htm



On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin
<drew@socialenterprise.net>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I will be sharing business plan information to a group of
> international NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd
> welcome your recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource
> to share with them - either a book, computer program, online source,
> or article - to assist them.
>
> Best,
> Drew Tulchin
> drew@socialenterprise.net
> 202-256-2692
>
> *Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** * New
> Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
> Development
>
>



--
Radhika Batra
9982017231

"1 year is a long time? By some measures it is. But it is only 1.5% of
your life. And if it is to serve as an inflection point for the
remaining 98.5%, then I think it's a chance you have to be willing to
take." – Rish Sanghvi '02.

Indicorps – Service for the Soul (www.Indicorps.org)





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Original message from: jritchie@columbiahousing.bc.ca

CGAP sponsors "microfin" tool for micro-finance institution to use as a
financial modeller. It is comprehensive, accommodates multi-branch
environments etc.

It is a free download with with strong support.

www.microfin.com

Other business planning resources at the www.microfinancegateway.org

Jamie Ritchie, Technical Advisor
Rooftops Canada

Cell (Canada) (77 386-6932
Saturna (250) 412-2912
Vodacom (South Africa) (2721) 71 298-7260




On 4/24/08 5:14 PM, "Chuck Budd" <assetsmontco@bee.net> wrote:

Drew, Not sure if you received from me yet, here is the link to my
organizations web site, we supply small business training course, mentoring
and technical assistance.

www.assetsmontco.org

Charles E. Budd
Director of Advancement
ASSETS Montco.
610.275.3520 Office
610.382.0001 Fax
cbudd@assetsmontco.org
www.assetsmontco.org
http://assetsmontcoblog.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-2632587-4991432@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-2632587-4991432@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
johnl@floridacdc.org
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:55 AM
To: Drew Tulchin
Cc: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Re: Your favorite business plan resource?

Drew. Here is a link to some self help business plan creation materials on
my website:

http://www.floridacdc.org/forms/bus-plan.htm



> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin
> <drew@socialenterprise.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I will be sharing business plan information to a group of
>> international NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd
>> welcome your recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource
>> to share with them - either a book, computer program, online source,
>> or article - to assist them.
>>
>> Best,
>> Drew Tulchin
>> drew@socialenterprise.net
>> 202-256-2692
>>
>> *Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** * New
>> Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
>> Development
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Radhika Batra
> 9982017231
>
> "1 year is a long time? By some measures it is. But it is only 1.5% of
> your life. And if it is to serve as an inflection point for the
> remaining 98.5%, then I think it's a chance you have to be willing to
> take." * Rish Sanghvi '02.
>
> Indicorps * Service for the Soul (www.Indicorps.org)
>




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Original message from: ted.fowler@bristol.gov.uk

The Barefoot MBA looks very interesting

Below is a link to "C3 - promoting a Competitive, Confident and Credible Third Sector": not so much a business plan tool more a way of planning or supporting your business, It is a third sector model we are looking at adapting to small and medium enterprises and pre- and new starts: We have been developing a curriculum for growth for what we call 3rd sector enterprises at C3 Partnership - see the details on C3 link below

This is all part of a strategic approach to development approach to the sector - getting it closer to customers, deploying support more effectively and improving performance of the sector as a whole against enterprises own goals: none of it 'rocket science'!. I can send supporting docs for further info. We'll be developing a web based Community of Practitioners as a low cost, high impact way of moving things on - all completely open source of course, there's little thats new in the world and its all our gift and responsibility. That way we can test our ideas out against each other experience and bring it together in an accessible form. We also need to recognise that the stakeholders to success in our field can share much more of their learning to great advantage and without compromising their own interests in any real sense - Pareto's' 80 % rule comes (improperly?) to mind

I've been on this list for some years now and l enjoy when I look in on it, so thanks all of you: its good to learn.

I hope this, my first posting, comes out ok, well it didn't so I'm trying again, thanks for the help Bill. I can send supporting documents to anyone who asks individually

best wishes



Ted Fowler

(do check out our new websites: "C3Partnership" and 'exchange2Improve' see below)

Economic Regeneration Officer - Social Economy and Community Initiatives
Manager C3 Project
Marketing, Investment & Enterprise Team
Economic Regeneration
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>> "Radhika Batra" <radhika.batra@gmail.com> 24/04/2008 12:31:04 >>>
Check this out. Also search online for something called
http://barefootmba.wordpress.com/curriculum/





On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin <drew@socialenterprise.net>
wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I will be sharing business plan information to a group of international
NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd welcome your
recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource to share with them -
either a book, computer program, online source, or article - to assist
them.

Best,
Drew Tulchin
drew@socialenterprise.net
202-256-2692

*Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** *
New Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic
Development





--
Radhika Batra
9982017231

"1 year is a long time? By some measures it is. But it is only 1.5% of your
life. And if it is to serve as an inflection point for the remaining 98.5%,
then I think it's a chance you have to be willing to take." - Rish Sanghvi
'02.

Indicorps - Service for the Soul (www.Indicorps.org)

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Original message from: dmouton@one-economy.com

Drew: The following are links to online business plan development tools
and information via The Beehive (www.thebeehive.org ; www.kcbeehive.org
)

Build A Business Plan

http://www.thebeehive.org/Templates/...px?PageId=1.40
84.4102.5268

Entrepreneur Center

http://www.thebeehive.org/Templates/...aspx?PageId=1.
4084&HideChildLinks=0&Local=1.10.160.161&Lang=1

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Drew Tulchin

<drew@socialenterprise.net>

wrote:



> Dear Colleagues,

>

> I will be sharing business plan information to a group of

> international NGO leaders of environmental non-profits soon. I'd

> welcome your recommendations for 1 (one) single, affordable resource

> to share with them - either a book, computer program, online source,

> or article - to assist them.

>

> Best,

> Drew Tulchin

> drew@socialenterprise.net

> 202-256-2692

>

> *Social Enterprise Associates - **www.socialenterprise.net** * New

> Ventures * Non-profit Earned Income * Microfinance * Economic

> Development

>

>