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Social Impact Strategy

This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker. Students will learn how to innovate and design new ideas and new organizational forms to implement those ideas. Students who take this course will be better prepared to launch social impact organizations of their own invention. By moving through four stages, Define, Design, Pilot, and Scale, students will turn their passion for changing the world into concrete plans for launching a nonprofit or for-profit venture designed to achieve a social goal. This course will allow students to systematically think through problems; develop and test an innovative solution; assess risk, competition, and performance; and spread impact in a way that is financially sustainable. Students who complete the course become eligible to apply for an in-person educational experience, called the Global Social Impact House. GSIH is a seven-day residential program that provides fellows with the tools, community and training they need to advance their ventures. Workshops are customized to the needs of fellows and explore advanced concepts in business models, design thinking and leadership. The program is also designed to help fellows build meaningful, global connections while living together in an inspirational host location. For more information on the Global Social Impact House, please visit: https://csis.upenn.edu/residential-program/gsih/

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Rating 4.8 based on 127 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Instructor Peter Frumkin
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Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Entrepreneurship Leadership And Management

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easy to understand

Congratulations.Thank you A clear and concise and easy to understand framework that sets you thinking and gets you to action ,and towards immediate implementation of the concepts Good intro into the social enterprise world.

I The material was easy to understand and structured.

The examples that were given to illustrate the various points were very relevant and also made it easy to understand concepts of social Entrepreneurship.

This course is full of meaningful content which is easy to understand and is essentially action oriented learning.

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for social entrepreneurs

love it and would go over the training videos over and over, it was just the beginning great course , very informative and a benchmark course for social entrepreneurs , Love Mr. Frumkin's style of lecturing.

Thanks Coursera for offering this great tool for social entrepreneurs!

Very useful course for social entrepreneurs.

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very good

Good, very Good.

very good course with samples and tools nice This is a course I would recommend to anyone passionate about social impact.

very useful course, learn a lot of tool how to make a social entreprise in this course Great content and very good quizzes that sharpen your understanding of the material.

This course will not make you a business plan or give you funds but surely frame your thought process to plan your actions throughout the journey Very good instruction.

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very useful

I found it very useful even after working in the non-profit sector for more than a decade.

The illustration of the concept through the stories of two entrepreneurs is also very useful.

It is very useful for an aspiring entrepreneur like me.

Very useful.

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opportunity to learn

Thank you for the well designed course and the opportunity to learn more about social innovation!

Great opportunity to learn the tools necessary to pre-launch and launch my social enterprise.

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own social enterprise

Was a bit sceptical at first with the limited real life case studies, but the course has grown on me and given me critical tools to get my own social enterprise off the ground.

I highly recommend this course to anyone who is planning to start their own social enterprise.

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it gave

Good Course to know how to make goods to society, not only for profit, but for you and people around you It gave me a very in-depth understanding of What social Entrepreneurship is and the importance of building a Business Model to a Social Enterprise for sustainability.

It gave me a sense of which consulting tools are effective in this environment.

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really good

Some really good content, took it as a high school student and had no problem at all.

It is really good course.

Really good introduction to the topic Really great course.

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for anyone

Definitely helpful for anyone that wants to design a social enterprise or to learn/reflect on their impact pathway.

I think this is a fantastic course for anyone exploring or who is already seriously considering social entrepreneurship.

This course is really helpful for anyone who consider themsevels as entrepreneurs.

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so much

:) Muy bueno Useful course for an Entrepreneur Loved this course so much.

Excelent Course Thanks I really enjoyed it and learnt so much.

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

ESL Instructor for Short Course (Community Edication, Impact) $26k

Community Impact Counselor $30k

Impact Scholars Coordinator $39k

Community Impact Coordinator $41k

Social Services Coordinator/Social Worker $44k

Program Coordinator for IMPACT! Life Transitions Program $47k

Associate Sales/Design/Impact $49k

Social $65k

Senior Research Associate - IMPACT $70k

Solution Analyst - Digital Impact $73k

Senior Solution Analyst - Digital Impact $84k

Program Manager of MSSB Global Impact Funding Trust $119k

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Rating 4.8 based on 127 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Instructor Peter Frumkin
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Entrepreneurship Leadership And Management

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