The programme will show you how to think about and build a basic financial model from the ground up, starting from a single business unit) – a stand-alone profit-center, like a branch, sales office, or individual franchise, – that is replicated when you scale. This approach helps ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialized, and that the business model is built for scalability from the start. This programme is valuable for social enterprises of all shapes and sizes, and at all stages of the start-up cycle. It is applicable to a wide range of people, including aspiring social entrepreneurs, non-profits that want to create market-based projects, investors evaluating a new business venture, as well as corporate entrepreneurs that want to launch ventures aimed at the bottom of the pyramid market.

This course teaches students, including those from non-profit organisations, social entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurs, and social change leaders, how to use financial modelling and creative approaches to market-based funding to scale the impact of their work. This course will be valuable for organisations of all shapes and sizes, and particularly useful for those in the early stages of development.