The CASE Knowledge Center is a collection of our research, writings, articles, and interviews we have published and conducted on social entrepreneurship over the years. You can use the category listings on the side of the page to filter the publications to your particular topic of interest. If you have any questions, please contact us at case@fuqua.duke.edu or subscribe to our newsletter below.
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Scaling Pathways
Through the Scaling Pathways series, CASE partners with the Skoll Foundation, USAID, and Mercy Corps Ventures to share lessons, insights, and analysis from transformative social enterprises in driving impact at scale. The series includes in-depth case studies, cross-cutting theme papers on key challenges and opportunities related to scale, snapshots of scaling organizations, and more.
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Angel Networks in Emerging Markets
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Partnership to Advance Entrepreneurship Initiative (PACE) funded CASE to research opportunities for development institutions to support angel networks to drive private sector investment in entrepreneurship in Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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SEAD: Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke
The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) was a five-year accelerator program in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN). Through the accelerator program the SEAD team has captured lessons learned and policy implications to ensure that our work impacts both entrepreneurs on the ground and the broader development community.
Nonprofit Geographic Expansion: Branches, Affiliates, or Both?
By Jane Wei-Skillern and Beth Battle Anderson Nonprofit organizations often move into new territories by establishing local branches, affiliates, or a combination of branches and affiliates, resulting in a plural form. This paper presents data from a survey of U.S. …
RISE Capital Market Report: The Double Bottom Line Private Equity Landscape in 2002/2003
By Cathy Clark and Josie Taylor Gaillard This snapshot of the emerging DBL investor landscape reveals a colorful cadre of investors going about their work in myriad ways. Our research shows that the group of DBL funds is broader in …
Sector-Bending: Blurring Lines Between Nonprofit and For-Profit
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson This article focuses on the potential benefits of sector-bending. Sector-bending refers to a wide variety of approaches, activities and relationships that are blurring the distinctions between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, either because …
RISE Social Venture Rubric: A Diagnostic Tool
By Cathy Clark The RISE Social Venture Rubric is a diagnostic tool that was developed at Columbia Business School to aid the in-class evaluation of social ventures. It was designed to stimulate for discussion and to help a student, entrepreneur, …
For-Profit Social Ventures
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Traditional sector boundaries are breaking down as societies search for more innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable ways to solve social problems and provide socially important goods, such as education and health care. One …
The Process of Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Opportunities Worthy of Serious Pursuit
By Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson All acts of entrepreneurship start with the vision of an attractive opportunity. For social entrepreneurs, an “attractive” opportunity is one that has sufficient potential for positive social impact to justify …
Futures for Kids
By Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Geoff Cramer and Bill Ziefle’s plan to establish Futures For Kids (F4K), a nonprofit organization designed to provide high school kids with resources for exploring their post-high school educational, training …
Pathways to Social Impact: Strategies for Scaling Out Successful Social Innovations
By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern Includes a matrix of options for how to scale social impact. More comprehensive treatment of article above. The authors encourage social entrepreneurs to consider different ways of both defining and …
Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson This presentation provides guidance for addressing the challenge of “scaling out” – spreading social sector innovations into new geographic locations in order to achieve greater impact. In addition to offering a four-stage …
Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit
By J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson and Peter Economy A complete set of tools for applying entrepreneurial strategies and techniques to your nonprofit As a follow-up to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide …