Managing Social Enterprise
ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE
Key Info | |
---|---|
Location | Global |
Learning Mode | Online |
Study Level | Certificate |
Credits | 20 Credits |
Duration | 10 Weeks |
Course Level | Level 6 |
Time Commitment | 8–10 hours weekly |
Start Date | 8th September, 2020 |
Cost | Level 1: £950 (6 Modules) Level 2: £1,700 (12 Modules) |
Managing Social Enterprise
Social enterprises are a new type of business, characterised by an entrepreneurial approach to delivering activities that are aligned with a specific social mission. Social enterprises are becoming central to the global economic system. Their complex nature, together with their growing number and influence around the world makes understanding and measuring their social impact a priority for all stakeholders (i.e. public authorities, impact investors, services users, and social enterprises themselves). Students will learn how to create a strategy that aligns a theory of social change with a sustainable business model, to provide the requisite resources, build a performance management system that measures social return for society and guides strategic decision-making, and scale impact through multiple strategies, including growth collaboration and policy influence. This course enables students to understand that social impact measurement can help social enterprises set realistic objectives, monitor, and improve performance, prioritise decisions, and access capital markets more competitively.
AN ONLINE EDUCATION THAT SETS YOU APART
Top Specialised Institution
Gain global recognition and desired skills from a specialised and quality-assured higher education institution.
Flexible
Choose an online-based education that fits your needs and lifestyle, so you can meet weekly milestones.
Award-Winning Teaching
Learn from our industry-leading Faculty Staff who are experts in their field.
The Programme
This course examines how to create, develop, and scale the impact of high-performing social enterprises – whether for- profit, nonprofit or hybrid organisations. Unlike the business world where most stakeholders agree on the definition of success and are driven by market forces, managers of social enterprises must have the ability to navigate through multiple and often conflicting goals, fragmented capital markets, diverse funding sources, and complex challenges of defining and measuring performance. Disciplined, strategic management and leadership are critical. Students will focus on the skills necessary for building organisations, and reshaping the ecosystems they inhabit, to address societal problems and seize social opportunities more effectively. This course will also examine the importance of measuring the impact of social enterprise. Social impact measurement aims to assess the social value and impact produced by the activities or operations of any for-profit or nonprofit organisation. Although any business can have a social impact, nonprofit organisations and social enterprises are specifically designed to create social value while addressing social challenges and are, therefore, expected to produce social impact.
In addition to these core themes, the course touches on the nature of capital and funding markets and on governance issues, examining leadership and management challenges from the perspective of investors, grantmakers, and board members. The programme draws on cases from diverse industries – such as health, education, environment, youth services, poverty alleviation, and impact investing – as a basis for identifying general leadership lessons that cut across industries. The course also includes conversations with social sector leaders at various stages of their careers, – from start-up social entrepreneurs to leaders of established non-profit organisations. These conversations offer an opportunity to explore emerging issues, discuss career paths, and anticipate future directions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Managing Social Enterprise is designed to introduce the main concepts, as well as engage students and their tutors in a joint learning experience within this emerging field. Through the course, students will:
- Become exposed to the concept of effective management of social enterprise – understanding key considerations when setting up a social enterprise.
- Demonstrate leadership and strategy for creating, developing, and scaling the impact of high-performing social enterprise(s), understanding the importance of the measurement of impact of social enterprise.
- Be able to navigate with multiple and often conflicting goals, in fragmented capital markets, while seeking diverse funding sources.
- Develop the skills necessary for building organisations (and, sometimes, reshaping the ecosystems they inhabit).
- Identify how to address societal problems and seize social opportunities more effectively.
- Have conversations that offer an opportunity to explore emerging issues, discuss career paths, and anticipate future directions.
- Be able to create, develop and scale the impact of high-performing social enterprises
COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1:
Social enterprise and social impact in the global economic systemModule 2:
Comparing for-profit and non-profit organisationsModule 3:
Setting up a social enterprise and understanding the advantages and disadvantagesModule 4:
Challenges of developing a social enterprise and strategic decision-making Module 5:Business planning for enduring social impact
Module 6:
Aligning social change theory with sustainable business models
Module 7:
Capital and funding markets for social enterprise
Module 8:
Leadership and management challenges of investors
Module 9:
Raising capital at different stages of a social enterprise lifecycle
Module 10:
Performance management system for social returns
Module 11:
Strategies for scaling a social innovation/product impact.
Module 12:
Measurement of a social return on investment (SROI) in a business setting
YOUR COURSE CONVENOR

Professor Ola Familoni
Professor of Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship at LSSE
Certification
This course is accredited and, to be awarded credit, you must satisfactorily complete written components. Successful students will receive credit, awarded by the Board of Studies of London School of Social Enterprise and Sustainable Economics and International Affiliates. The award will be presented in the form of Advanced Certificate. Exceptional students will be recognised.

You might also be interested in

Short courses
The course will provide students with an introduction to social enterprise and the major opportunities and challenges facing social entrepreneurs and their ventures. Students will learn how social entrepreneurs with creative solutions address social problems.

Short courses
This online course will introduce students to the concepts, principles, values, and methods of Social Enterprise. They will examine and learn the tools used to plan and set up new social enterprises or to convert their NGOs into more entrepreneurial organizations.

Short courses
The course will show you how to build a basic financial model from the start up to scaling up. This approach helps ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialised, and that the business model is built for scalability from the start.

Short courses
Social Accounting and Audit course teaches how to establish a framework for ongoing monitoring, evaluation and accountability to stakeholders. You will learn how to prepare a social report on the value and impact your organisation provides to operate more effectively and efficiently.