Includes index Social enterprise development: community businesses at work. (2009). Pasig City, Philippines: Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program.

Part 1: Applying effective social enterprise processes -- Section 1: What is enterprise? -- Section 2: Enterprise planning and analysis: overview -- Section 3: Product and market considerations -- Section 4: Production and technology considerations -- Section 5: Organization and management considerations -- Section 6: Financial considerations

In this book, PACAP shares the lessons derived from its twenty-three years of providing assistance to social enterprise development projects. Out of hundreds of possible case studies, fourteen have been chosen to demonstrate the ways in which enterprises can transcend the inevitable problems they face at start-up, whether those problems are related to production and marketing, to financial management to organizational procedures. The social enterprise development community businesses at work is a resource useful not only for the preparation of business plans and the design of operational procedures, but also for training and evaluation purposes. It is aimed not just at PACAP projects and staff, but at any enterprise still in the planning stage, or facing expansion. - From the Book